executing-plans

executing-plans is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jxoesneon/Ciel. It costs 25 tokens per session (715 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A checklist for carrying out a written multi-step implementation plan. It loads the plan, reviews it for gaps, tracks progress, and coordinates the agents doing the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing plans before work starts, dispatching implementation tasks, tracking the larger project, and escalating critical issues.
Why use it?
It prevents a plan from being executed blindly when it has missing dependencies, circular steps, or serious design problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit It is for reviewing plans before work starts, dispatching implementation tasks, tracking the larger project, and escalating critical issues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jxoesneon/ciel/executing-plans
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jxoesneon/Ciel --skill executing-plans
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jxoesneon/Ciel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 715 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00025 $0.00715
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00358
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00072

Measured 8d ago against content hash 236f2b9e3742, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

executing-plans scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/executing-plans/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CIEL ADAPTATION: Executing Plans (Plan Lifecycle Management)

This skill dictates how the Orchestrator manages the high-level lifecycle of a written implementation plan (generated by the make-plan skill). It ensures that plans are not blindly executed, but rather critically reviewed and systematically tracked.

Integration Context

Adapted from ~/.agents/skills/executing-plans/. In CIEL, the actual execution of individual tasks within a plan is handled by subagent-driven-development or dispatching-parallel-agents. This skill (executing-plans) acts as the outer loop: the state management and review mechanism for the entire epic.

The Execution Lifecycle

Phase 1: Load and Critical Review (Mandatory Checkpoint)

Before dispatching the first sub-agent, the Orchestrator MUST:

  1. Read the complete plan file.
  2. Critical Analysis: Analyze the plan for missing dependencies, circular logic, or unaddressed technical debt.
  3. Escalation: If the plan has critical gaps or architectural flaws, the Orchestrator MUST halt and escalate to the human user (ask_user) before beginning execution. Do not attempt to silently patch a fundamentally broken plan.

Phase 2: State Tracking (The Checkbox Protocol)

As tasks are delegated to sub-agents (via subagent-driven-development), the Orchestrator maintains the global state:

  1. Log the initiation of each task in the MemPalace Diary (mempalace_diary_write).
  2. Mark tasks as IN_PROGRESS.
  3. Upon successful verification of a sub-agent's work (Spec + Quality reviews passed), mark the task as COMPLETED.

Phase 3: Blocker Protocol

STOP executing immediately when:

  • A sub-agent reports a fundamental blocker that requires architectural changes to the original plan.
  • The verification-loop fails consistently across multiple sub-agent retries.
  • Action: Return to Phase 1 (Review) and propose an updated plan to the human user. Do not force through blockers via endless sub-agent loops.

Phase 4: Epic Completion

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 66 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 236f2b9e3742

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executing-plans is a skill published in the GitHub repository jxoesneon/Ciel (1 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 715 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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