long-running-work-planning

long-running-work-planning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lindoelio/spec-driven-steroids. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,284 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning method for large or long-running coding tasks. It records requirements, design decisions, tasks, checkpoints, and verification results in files so work can resume reliably.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps break down large jobs, track dependencies and completed work, test changes in small batches, and leave a clear checkpoint for continuing later.
Why use it?
It prevents progress and decisions from being lost during complex work, debugging, migrations, or tasks that exceed one working session.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps break down large jobs, track dependencies and completed work, test changes in small batches, and leave a clear checkpoint for continuing later.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lindoelio/spec-driven-steroids/long-running-work-planning
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add lindoelio/spec-driven-steroids --skill long-running-work-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lindoelio/spec-driven-steroids

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,284 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 82
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00067 $0.01284
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00642
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00257
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00128

Measured 10d ago against content hash d608f11fe998, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

long-running-work-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 10d 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.

packages/cli/templates/universal/skills/long-running-work-planning/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Long-Running Work Planning

Make extended agent work durable, resumable, and observable. The primary goal is not deeper private reasoning; it is keeping progress outside the model context through files, task states, checkpoints, and verification.

Core Principle

For heavy work, never rely on memory or a long internal chain of thought as the source of truth.

Use durable artifacts instead:

  • requirements.md, design.md, and tasks.md for spec-driven work
  • task status markers in tasks.md
  • small verified batches
  • explicit checkpoint summaries in the working artifact or final response
  • validation output as the gate for marking work complete

Strategy Selection

Choose the smallest strategy that keeps progress recoverable:

Situation Strategy
Spec-driven planning phase Write one complete phase artifact, validate it, stop for approval
Heavy task decomposition Decompose into small tasks with dependencies, verification, and traceability
Heavy implementation Treat tasks.md as the durable queue and continue task-by-task
Debugging with unclear root cause Create hypotheses, test them one at a time, record the current best finding
Context is getting large Write a resume checkpoint before continuing
Validation fails Fix if local and clear; otherwise mark blocked with evidence

Durable Execution Protocol

Use this protocol whenever work could exceed one comfortable response or tool cycle.

  1. Identify the durable source of truth.
  2. Break the work into small units that can be verified independently.
  3. Mark the current unit in progress before editing.
  4. Complete only that unit or a small batch of tightly related units.
  5. Run the smallest meaningful verification.
  6. Persist status immediately after verification.
  7. Emit a concise progress update when useful.
  8. Continue until all units are complete, a real blocker appears, or phase rules require approval.

Spec-Driven Usage

Requirements, Design, And Tasks Phases

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. 10d ago First seen · 168 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A d608f11fe998

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long-running-work-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository lindoelio/spec-driven-steroids (54 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,284 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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