plan-work

plan-work is a skill for Claude Code from leifericf/agentic-sdk. It costs 32 tokens per session (2,386 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning tool that breaks an approved feature plan into ordered phases and tasks, forming a dependency graph where later work waits for earlier work. It saves the detailed plan to a run file and returns a short summary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan one approved feature chunk, divide it into phases and tasks, and record the result in plan.edn for the current run. It is for planning only and does not write source code or dispatch other agents.
Why use it?
It keeps large plans out of the agent's immediate conversation while preserving task order, dependencies, critical path, and conflicts. This helps coordinate work without treating a dependent project as a list of unrelated steps.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to plan one approved feature chunk, divide it into phases and tasks, and record the result in plan.edn for the current run. It is for planning only and does not write source code or dispatch other agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leifericf/agentic-sdk/plan-work
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add leifericf/agentic-sdk --skill plan-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/leifericf/agentic-sdk

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,386 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 $0.00032 $0.02386
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00954
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00477
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00239

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 09c24c4e9a56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-work 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 1mo 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.

skills/plan-work/SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

plan-work

Role: the planning specialty advance-plan dispatches before it drives. Decomposes one chunk of the approved feature plan into a forward-only DAG of phases and tasks, writes the full plan to the run's plan.edn, and returns a compact summary. The big plan lives on disk; only the summary rides back in context. It plans; it does not write source or dispatch other agents.

Input: a named chunk of the approved feature plan, plus the run slug. Output: the full plan at ~/.agentic-sdk/<project>/runs/<slug>/plan.edn and a compact summary returned to the caller.

Stance

Read skills/shared/references/orchestration.md before planning; its laws bind this work. Four applications matter here:

  • Context is the budget. The plan can be large. It goes to plan.edn, never into the return. The return is the phase list, the task counts, the critical path, and the conflicts, nothing more. A planner that returns the full plan defeats the reason it runs in a sub-agent.
  • Forward-only: a DAG, not a loop. Decompose into phases and tasks that flow one direction. A phase lands before any phase that depends on it starts. Order to minimise work in progress. Never plan a step that backtracks into landed work to make later work fit; if an earlier decision proves wrong, that is a new forward task, not a rewind.
  • Autonomy: decide and record. Where the feature plan leaves a choice open, pick the recommended option, note the pick in the task's :desc and the plan's :notes, and plan the task to settle it. Do not stall on an open choice; the plan records the decision and moves on.
  • Shift security and verification left. Each task carries its own test layers as part of its definition of done. Where a task takes untrusted input or crosses a native edge between languages, its :done names check-security and the relevant verify lanes, not a gate bolted on at the end.

Procedure

  1. Assess what is landed. Do not trust the feature plan to tell you where the project is; read the ground truth:

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 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. 1mo ago First seen · 205 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 09c24c4e9a56

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plan-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository leifericf/agentic-sdk (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 2,386 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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