planning

planning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from langchain-ai/deepagents. It costs 23 tokens per session (360 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for breaking a coding task into an ordered implementation plan, including the files involved, tests, and possible risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning new features, identifying relevant parts of a codebase, deciding what to change or create, and outlining tests and final checks.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad or unclear request into concrete steps before coding begins, so important requirements and verification work are less likely to be missed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

Deep Agents is an extensible agent harness that provides an out-of-the-box agent for long, multi-step tasks, with features such as planning, sub-agents, filesystem access, context management, memory, and human approval of tool calls. It is used by developers building agents with different language models, and its catalogue entries extend the harness with reusable skills, MCP servers, and instructions.

langchain-ai/deepagents · 28,893 stars · on GitHub

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/langchain-ai/deepagents/planning
Any agent
npx skills add langchain-ai/deepagents --skill planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/langchain-ai/deepagents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 360 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 $0.00023 $0.00360
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00180
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00036

Measured 4d ago against content hash 5733ac8765d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planning 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 4d 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.

examples/deploy-coding-agent/skills/planning/SKILL.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Planning Skill

Use this skill when starting a new coding task to create a thorough implementation plan.

Steps

1. Understand the Task

  • Read the issue/task description completely
  • Identify the expected outcome and acceptance criteria
  • Note any constraints or requirements mentioned

2. Explore the Codebase

  • Find the repository root and read the project structure
  • Identify the tech stack (language, framework, test runner)
  • Read README, CONTRIBUTING, or similar docs if they exist
  • Find existing tests to understand testing patterns

3. Identify Relevant Files

  • Use grep to find code related to the task
  • Read the most relevant files (entry points, related modules)
  • Identify which files need to be modified vs. created
  • Check for existing patterns you should follow

4. Write the Plan

Use write_todos to create a structured plan:

write_todos([
    "1. <specific change in specific file>",
    "2. <next specific change>",
    "3. Write tests for <feature>",
    "4. Run test suite and fix failures",
    "5. Review all changes"
])

5. Assess Risks

  • Are there breaking changes?
  • Are there edge cases to handle?
  • Does this affect other parts of the codebase?
  • Flag anything uncertain for review

Guidelines

  • Plans should have 3-10 concrete steps
  • Each step should be specific enough to execute without further planning
  • Include test writing and test running as explicit steps
  • End with a review/verification step
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. 4d ago First seen · 54 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 5733ac8765d8

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planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository langchain-ai/deepagents (28,893 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 360 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 2026-08-30.