writing-plans

writing-plans is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from linkpranay-ai/context-engineering-protocol. It costs 21 tokens per session (1,661 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An implementation-planning guide for turning software requirements into a step-by-step coding plan before development begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan multi-step development work from a specification, including the files to change, tests to write, and checks to perform.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork for engineers who lack context about the codebase, tools, or problem domain. It also makes testing, documentation, and file changes explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to plan multi-step development work from a specification, including the files to change, tests to write, and checks to perform.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/linkpranay-ai/context-engineering-protocol/writing-plans.retrofitted
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 linkpranay-ai/context-engineering-protocol --skill writing-plans.retrofitted
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/linkpranay-ai/context-engineering-protocol

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,661 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 $0.00021 $0.01661
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00664
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00332
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00166

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5d376c76a64c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

case-studies/cep-retrofit-superpowers/vendored-skill/writing-plans.retrofitted.SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

If a CEP context package exists for the feature this plan covers, load it before the Overview below — see .cep-contracts/CONSUMING-CONTEXT-PACKAGE.md for how to detect, extract, and apply it. Prefer its already-extracted evidence, Implementation Decisions, and flagged gaps over re-deriving them from scratch when mapping File Structure and Task N blocks; if institutional_memory_hits are present, resolve them per that contract before finalizing the plan.

Writing Plans

Overview

Write comprehensive implementation plans assuming the engineer has zero context for our codebase and questionable taste. Document everything they need to know: which files to touch for each task, code, testing, docs they might need to check, how to test it. Give them the whole plan as bite-sized tasks. DRY. YAGNI. TDD. Frequent commits.

Assume they are a skilled developer, but know almost nothing about our toolset or problem domain. Assume they don't know good test design very well.

Announce at start: "I'm using the writing-plans skill to create the implementation plan."

Context: If working in an isolated worktree, it should have been created via the superpowers:using-git-worktrees skill at execution time.

Save plans to: docs/superpowers/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<feature-name>.md

  • (User preferences for plan location override this default)

Scope Check

If the spec covers multiple independent subsystems, it should have been broken into sub-project specs during brainstorming. If it wasn't, suggest breaking this into separate plans — one per subsystem. Each plan should produce working, testable software on its own.

File Structure

Before defining tasks, map out which files will be created or modified and what each one is responsible for. This is where decomposition decisions get locked in.

  • Design units with clear boundaries and well-defined interfaces. Each file should have one clear responsibility.
  • You reason best about code you can hold in context at once, and your edits are more reliable when files are focused. Prefer smaller, focused files over large ones that do too much.
  • Files that change together should live together. Split by responsibility, not by technical layer.
  • In existing codebases, follow established patterns. If the codebase uses large files, don't unilaterally restructure - but if a file you're modifying has grown unwieldy, including a split in the plan is reasonable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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 · 175 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 5d376c76a64c

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writing-plans is a skill published in the GitHub repository linkpranay-ai/context-engineering-protocol (9 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,661 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 2026-09-04.

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