ring:writing-plans

ring:writing-plans is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LerianStudio/ring. It costs 94 tokens per session (3,549 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for turning a multi-step software requirement into a phased implementation plan before coding starts. The plan breaks the first phase into actionable tasks while keeping later phases at a higher level until they are closer to execution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a feature spans multiple parts of a codebase, when work will be handed to another developer or session, or when implementation should follow a staged plan. It is not intended for a simple one-file change or an unresolved idea.
Why use it?
Large features can be difficult to start when requirements are spread across many files or systems. This gives the implementer enough detail for the next phase without pretending that later decisions are already known.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when a feature spans multiple parts of a codebase, when work will be handed to another developer or session, or when implementation should follow a staged plan. It is not intended for a simple one-file change or an unresolved idea.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lerianstudio/ring/writing-plans
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 writing-plans
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LerianStudio/ring

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,549 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 $0.00094 $0.03549
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.01775
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00710
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00355

Measured 7d ago against content hash cea376a8a911, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ring:writing-plans 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 7d 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.

default/skills/writing-plans/SKILL.md · 271 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 271 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Plans

When to use

  • Spec or requirements exist for a multi-step task and no implementation has started
  • Feature spans multiple files/layers and needs decomposition before coding
  • Handing off implementation to a separate session, agent, or human

Skip when

  • Single-file change with obvious shape (just do it)
  • Exploratory spike — phased plans assume known requirements
  • Spec is still in brainstorming; the plan would lock premature decisions

Sequence

Runs after: ring:exploring-codebases, ring:planning-large-features (gates 0-6 artifacts) or ring:planning-small-features (gates 0-2 artifacts) — their outputs feed the spec Runs before: ring:executing-plans (rolling-wave execution) or ring:running-dev-cycle (gated subagent workflow)

Companion: plan-document-reviewer-prompt.md — subagent dispatch template for thorough plan review


Write the plan assuming the implementer is skilled but has zero context for this codebase, toolset, or problem domain.

The plan is a rolling-wave document. Only the first phase is detailed to task level at plan time; later phases stay at epic level until execution reaches them. Detail decays: code written in Phase 1 invalidates assumptions baked into Phase 3 tasks, so do not write Phase 3 tasks yet. ring:executing-plans elaborates each subsequent phase against the codebase as it actually exists.

Announce at start: "Using ring:writing-plans to author the implementation plan."

Default save path: docs/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<feature-name>.md (User preferences override.)

Invoked from pre-dev: when dispatched as the final gate of ring:planning-large-features or ring:planning-small-features, the spec inputs are the pre-dev artifacts — trd.md (plus feature-map.md, openapi.yaml, the schema file, and dependencies.md on the Large track). On Large, plan phases MUST mirror feature-map.md phases one-to-one. Output path is docs/pre-dev/{feature}/plan.md, overriding the default above; standalone invocations keep the default. plan.md is always a SINGLE document per feature: on multi-module topologies (monorepo fullstack / multi-repo), each epic carries one line **Target:** backend | frontend | infra (placed right before **Status:**); for multi-repo features the orchestrator copies plan.md into each repo and the local dev-cycle executes only epics whose Target matches that repo. No per-module plan splits.

Read the full file on GitHub · 271 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 7d ago First seen · 271 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A cea376a8a911

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ring:writing-plans is a skill published in the GitHub repository LerianStudio/ring (211 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 3,549 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 2026-08-30.

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