executing-plans

A procedure for implementing a completed software plan one task at a time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you have an implementation plan and need to carry out its tasks, tests, and reviews in order.
Why use it?
It checks the plan for gaps first and requires the listed verification steps, reducing the risk of silently changing the intended work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/executing-plans
Any agent
npx skills add KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude --skill executing-plans
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 624 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00065 $0.00624
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00312
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00062

Measured 2d ago against content hash e2124f74f1bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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.

.claude-plugin/plugins/engineering/skills/executing-plans/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Take a finished implementation plan and turn it into working code, one task at a time, without drifting from what the plan says. The plan has already done the thinking and the decomposition; your job is faithful execution plus the judgement to stop when something is genuinely wrong.

Step 1: Load and review the plan critically

Read the whole plan before doing anything. Don't take it on faith — look for gaps, contradictions, steps that can't work, or instructions you don't actually understand. If you have real concerns, raise them with the user before you start, not halfway through. If it's sound, create a task list from it and begin.

If the work isn't already isolated and the plan calls for it, set up an isolated workspace first with the git-worktrees skill. Never start implementing on main or master without the user's explicit consent.

Step 2: Execute task by task

For each task, in order:

  • Mark it in progress.
  • Follow each step exactly as written — the steps are deliberately bite-sized, so do them as given rather than collapsing or reordering them.
  • Run every verification the plan specifies. Don't skip a test or a build because the code "looks right."
  • Mark it complete only once its verifications actually pass.

Don't bundle in changes the plan didn't ask for. If you spot something worth doing that's outside the plan, note it and raise it — don't silently fold it into a task.

Step 3: Stop and ask when blocked

Stop immediately — don't guess or work around it — when:

  • You hit a blocker: a missing dependency, a test that won't pass, an unclear instruction.
  • The plan has a gap that prevents you from starting or continuing a task.
  • A verification keeps failing and you don't understand why.
  • The approach itself looks wrong once you're in the code.

Ask for clarification rather than improvising. If the user updates the plan in response, return to Step 1 and re-review the changed parts before continuing.

Step 4: Finish the work

Once every task is done and its verifications pass, don't just stop — wrap up the branch deliberately using the finish-branch skill, which verifies the full test suite and walks through how to integrate the work (merge, PR, keep, or discard).

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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. 2d ago First seen · 47 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A e2124f74f1bc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

executing-plans is a skill published in the GitHub repository KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude (4 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 624 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.