kestral-plan-day

kestral-plan-day is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Kestral-Team/kestral-plugins. It costs 52 tokens per session (3,589 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A daily planning tool for Kestral, a shared system for project plans and task status.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning the current day and the next two business days from Kestral data and calendar events.
Why use it?
It turns Kestral's daily brief into an actionable work plan while considering relevant project work and calendar commitments. It also helps decide what to defer.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Part of the kestral plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Planning the current day and the next two business days from Kestral data and calendar events.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kestral-team/kestral-plugins/kestral-plan-day
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Kestral-Team/kestral-plugins --skill kestral-plan-day
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kestral-Team/kestral-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install kestral, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,589 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 $0.00052 $0.03589
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01795
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00718
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00359

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2da10e63fae5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kestral-plan-day 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 10d 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.

plugins/kestral/skills/kestral-plan-day/SKILL.md · 306 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 306 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan Day

Create a daily operating plan from Kestral's current daily brief, relevant project/task state, and the user's calendar for today plus the next two business days. The plan should make brief context actionable: what changed, what needs attention, what fits today, and what should be deferred.

Prerequisites

The Kestral MCP server must be in this session (/mcp). Authentication is handled by the MCP connection — proceed directly with data-fetching calls. If any call returns auth failure (401, unauthorized, or Not authenticated), ask the user to reconnect or authenticate the Kestral MCP server through their app's UI (Cowork: Customize → Connectors; Codex: authenticate then start a new thread using /new — CLI: codex mcp login Kestral; app: Plugins → Kestral → MCP servers gear; Claude Code: /mcp → reconnect). A calendar MCP/app connector should also be available for best results. If calendar access is missing, the behavior depends on whether this is the user's first plan-day after a kestral-setup in the same session:

First plan-day after setup (same session): The user just finished onboarding and is trying plan-day for the first time. Guide them toward connecting a calendar — this is the best moment to set it up:

Plan-day works best with your calendar — it avoids scheduling over meetings and shows free blocks for focus time.

To connect a calendar (e.g. Google Calendar): install the calendar plugin or connector in your app's settings (Cowork: Customize → Connectors; Claude Code: /mcp; Cursor: Settings → MCP Servers).

You can skip this and plan from tasks and your brief alone — calendar is optional.

If they connect it, proceed. If they skip, do not repeat the guidance.

All other invocations (standalone, subsequent runs, new sessions): Note briefly and move on — do not push connector setup:

No calendar connected — planning from tasks and your brief. Tell me any fixed commitments so I don't schedule over them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 306 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 306 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 2da10e63fae5

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kestral-plan-day is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kestral-Team/kestral-plugins (4 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 3,589 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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