ring:planning-small-features

ring:planning-small-features is a skill for Cursor from LerianStudio/ring. It costs 85 tokens per session (1,174 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A lightweight planning process for small features that covers research, product requirements, technical requirements, and an implementation plan through four review gates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for work expected to take less than two days when it uses existing architecture and adds no dependencies, data models, or service integrations.
Why use it?
It provides basic agreement before coding without using the longer process intended for complex work.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: shipped in a Cursor plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the ring-pm-team plugin — 14 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for work expected to take less than two days when it uses existing architecture and adds no dependencies, data models, or service integrations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lerianstudio/ring/planning-small-features
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 LerianStudio/ring --skill planning-small-features
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LerianStudio/ring

Made for: Cursor.

Or install ring-pm-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 4 agents.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,174 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00085 $0.01174
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00470
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00235
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00117

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ba777aeeb38f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ring:planning-small-features 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.

pm-team/skills/planning-small-features/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Small Track Pre-Dev Workflow (4 Gates)

When to use

  • Feature takes <2 days to implement
  • Uses existing architecture patterns
  • Doesn't add new external dependencies
  • Doesn't create new data models/entities
  • Doesn't require multi-service integration
  • Can be completed by a single developer

Skip when

  • Feature is complex (>=2 days) - use ring:planning-large-features instead
  • Adds new dependencies, data models, or architecture patterns

Sequence

Runs before: ring:running-dev-cycle, ring:executing-plans

Complementary: ring:planning-large-features, ring:creating-worktrees, ring:product-designer + ring:validating-ux-completeness (standalone UX step, recommended when feature has UI) Skills orchestrated:

  • ring:researching-features
  • ring:writing-prds
  • ring:writing-trds
  • ring:writing-plans

Running the Small Track pre-development workflow for features that take <2 days, use existing patterns, add no new external dependencies, create no new data models, require no multi-service integration, and can be completed by a single developer.

For complex features (any of the above false), use ring:planning-large-features instead.

Gate Map

Gate Skill Output
0 ring:researching-features research.md
1 ring:writing-prds prd.md
2 ring:writing-trds trd.md
3 ring:writing-plans plan.md

All artifacts saved to: docs/pre-dev/<feature-name>/

Step 1: Gather Feature Name

AskUserQuestion: "What is the name of your feature?" (kebab-case, e.g., "user-logout", "email-validation")

Step 2: Topology Discovery (MANDATORY)

Execute topology discovery per shared-patterns/topology-discovery.md. Store as TopologyConfig for all subsequent gates.

Step 3: Gather Feature-Specific Inputs

Q2 (CONDITIONAL): Auth requirements — auto-detect from go.mod (lib-auth present → skip). Options: None, User only, User + permissions, Service-to-service, Full.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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 · 100 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A ba777aeeb38f

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ring:planning-small-features is a skill published in the GitHub repository LerianStudio/ring (218 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,174 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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