planning-mode

planning-mode is a skill for Claude Code from kimgoetzke/coding-agent-configs. It costs 76 tokens per session (4,193 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A skill for switching a persistent planning mode on or off during long coding sessions. In that mode, the agent can keep planning documents updated and remind itself to follow the plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start planning around a topic, continue a saved plan, disable planning mode, and maintain planning reminders for Claude Code, Copilot, or Pi.
Why use it?
It keeps multi-step work organized across a conversation and supports resuming an existing plan later.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to start planning around a topic, continue a saved plan, disable planning mode, and maintain planning reminders for Claude Code, Copilot, or Pi.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kimgoetzke/coding-agent-configs/planning-mode
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add kimgoetzke/coding-agent-configs --skill planning-mode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kimgoetzke/coding-agent-configs

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,193 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00076 $0.04193
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.01677
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00839
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00419

Measured 2d ago against content hash 144e6a4e2c4a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

planning-mode scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/check-hooks.sh, scripts/clear-mode.sh, scripts/planning-mode-hook.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

| Claude Code | `~/.claude/settings.json` | _(none — default)_ |
skills/planning-mode/SKILL.md · 372 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 372 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Usage

  • /planning-mode — Enable planning mode, then prompt for a topic
  • /planning-mode <topic> — Enable planning mode and start planning
  • /planning-mode continue — List existing plans and resume one
  • /planning-mode off — Disable planning mode

Configuration

Planning mode works best with automated reminders, but it can still run with manual planning-doc updates when hook support is unavailable.

Tool Hook config location / equivalent Script format argument
Claude Code ~/.claude/settings.json (none — default)
Copilot ~/.copilot/hooks.json copilot
Pi Bundled active-mode extension in .pi/agent/extensions/active-mode/ (extension-driven)

Claude Code and Copilot support the bundled PostToolUse and SessionStart hook scripts directly. Pi does not use the same standalone hook configuration files in this repository's starter config. Instead, this starter config now ships a Pi-native active-mode extension that reads .ai/.active-mode, clears stale flags on fresh session start, injects reminder context before LLM calls, and shows mode status in the UI. If that extension is not installed, fall back to manual planning-doc updates.

If you cannot determine which tool you are, ask the user.

Persistence

This skill belongs to the plans skill group. A persistence implementation decides where and how plans are stored. Before creating, listing or opening a plan, find the setting:

R="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)/.ai/config.properties"; { cat "$R" ~/.ai/config.properties | grep '^persistence\.plans[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*[^[:space:]]'; cat "$R" ~/.ai/config.properties | grep '^persistence[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*[^[:space:]]'; } 2>/dev/null | head -1 | tr -d ' \t\r'

Read the full file on GitHub · 372 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 2d ago Changed · +11 lines 144e6a4e2c4a
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 361 lines · 76 tokens per session scan B 211d0347f0d3

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planning-mode is a skill published in the GitHub repository kimgoetzke/coding-agent-configs (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 4,193 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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