plan-md-authoring

plan-md-authoring is a skill for Claude Code from kitchen-engineer42/joharnessburg. It costs 105 tokens per session (2,325 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversation-guided template for writing the first PLAN.md file in a John project. PLAN.md is the project's durable written agreement about its purpose, phases, decisions, and open questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after workspace setup to define what the project should produce, how its work is divided, and which design choices still need the user's input.
Why use it?
It prevents the project from starting with untested assumptions or an overly rigid design. The plan gives later work a shared direction before documents are processed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the john plugin — 28 skills, 5 commands, 5 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it after workspace setup to define what the project should produce, how its work is divided, and which design choices still need the user's input.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kitchen-engineer42/joharnessburg/plan-md-authoring
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 kitchen-engineer42/joharnessburg --skill plan-md-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kitchen-engineer42/joharnessburg

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install john, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 5 commands, 5 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,325 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 $0.00105 $0.02325
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01162
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00465
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00232

Measured 9d ago against content hash ce6e4d21e2b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-md-authoring 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 9d 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/joharnessburg/skills/plan-md-authoring/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

plan-md-authoring

You are writing PLAN.md for the first time on a new John project. After this, [[plan-md-evolution]] takes over — this skill is just the bootstrap.

The plan is not a recipe. It's a wide-tunnel agreement between you and the user about what's being built, how the work decomposes into phases, and where the open decisions are. Too narrow and you'll regret it in two phases when the corpus surprises you. Too loose and you'll re-derive everything every iteration.

When to start writing

After /john:init has scaffolded <project>/.john/ and put the user's input materials in <project>/.john/input/. Before you've parsed anything. Before you've decided on a knowledge schema.

The plan should be written through a conversation with the user, not generated unilaterally. If you find yourself filling in sections without asking, stop and ask. You only get one chance to shape a project at the top — don't waste it on assumptions.

The skeleton

PLAN.md has these sections in this order. Some come from your conversation with the user; some you fill in as the project progresses.

# PLAN.md — <project name>

## Project intent
<what the produced app does, who uses it, what it consumes, what success looks like>

## Knowledge inventory (from the knowledge phases)
<initial: pointer to .john/input/ and a one-line corpus profile
 over time: pointers to <project>/.claude/skills/ and <project>/.agents/skills/ once the knowledge phases ship>

## App-type definition
- Knowledge format: <facts? rules? stories? wiki? mixed? — initial guess, may evolve>
- Knowledge schema: <starter sketch; expect to iterate>
- App mechanism: <how the produced app works for end-users>
- Build pipeline: <the rest of this doc — phases that build the app>

## Phases
### Phase 1: <name>
- Intent: <one sentence>
- Subagent assignments: <if vertical fan-out, what's the unit?>
- Execution: <Workflow yes/no; if yes: worker agent + cross-check agent + model — see [[vertical-workflows]]>
- Skills to invoke: <[[skill-1]], [[skill-2]]>
- Required artifacts (disk-verifiable): <paths the engine can check>
- Done criteria: <observable conditions; not "feels finished">

### Phase 2: ...
...

## Subagent matrix
<for any phase with vertical fan-out, the list of work units and current state.
 may be empty at first, fills in as phases hit fan-out points>

## Open decisions
<things you want the user to weigh in on before you barrel forward>

## Log
<append-only, most recent first. dated entries:
 - phase advances ("Phase 2 done, X artifacts produced")
 - decisions you made and why
 - blockers you wrote to "Open decisions"
 - user instructions received mid-flight>

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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. 9d ago First seen · 139 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A ce6e4d21e2b9

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plan-md-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository kitchen-engineer42/joharnessburg (9 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 2,325 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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