guide

guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lucasnad27/claude-plugins. It costs 19 tokens per session (723 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow guide that shows the current stage of a research, design, planning, and implementation process. It checks project files, Git status, and pull-request status to suggest the next step.

In plain words
What is it for?
Getting a short workspace orientation or a deeper explanation of a specific workflow topic.
Why use it?
It reduces uncertainty about where work stands and which project artifact or command should be used next.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the research-plan-implement plugin — 8 skills, 8 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lucasnad27/claude-plugins/guide
Any agent
npx skills add lucasnad27/claude-plugins --skill guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lucasnad27/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install research-plan-implement, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 8 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for guide

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lucasnad27/claude-plugins/guide.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lucasnad27/claude-plugins/guide)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lucasnad27/claude-plugins/guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lucasnad27/claude-plugins/guide.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 723 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00019 $0.00723
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00362
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00072

Measured 4d ago against content hash 26b31b6dd605, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

guide 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 4d 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.

plugins/research-plan-implement/skills/setup/reference/skills/guide/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workflow Guide

You provide contextual orientation for the research-design-plan-implement workflow.

Two modes:

  • /guide (no args) → Short orientation: where am I, what's next? (5-10 lines max)
  • /guide [topic] → Deep dive on a specific topic (see topics.md in this skill's directory)

Mode 1: Orientation (no args)

Current Workspace State

Recent research docs: !ls -lt .rpi/*-research.md 2>/dev/null | head -3

Recent design docs: !ls -lt .rpi/*-design.md 2>/dev/null | head -3

Recent plan docs: !ls -lt .rpi/*-plan.md 2>/dev/null | head -3

Git status: !git status --short 2>/dev/null

PR status: !gh pr status 2>/dev/null | head -5

Determine Current Phase

Based on the workspace state above:

  • No artifacts → Getting started
  • Research doc exists, no design → Ready for design
  • Design doc exists, no plan → Ready for planning
  • Plan doc exists, some phases incomplete → In implementation
  • Plan doc with all phases complete → Ready for review
  • Open PR → In review

Output Format

Respond with ONLY this format:

**[Current phase]**
[Most relevant artifact with path]
Next: [What to do next with the specific command]
Tip: [One-line tip relevant to current phase]

Phase-Specific Tips

  • Getting started: "Start with /research-codebase to explore the area you'll be working in."
  • Ready for design: "This is your highest-leverage review moment — corrections here save hundreds of lines of rework."
  • Ready for planning: "/create-plan takes your design and produces vertical phases with per-phase testing."
  • In implementation: "Each phase should be testable on its own. If it's not, the plan may need vertical restructuring."
  • Ready for review: "Run /prepare-pr to commit, open the PR, and land a numbered review guide — a short index in the description, the detail as inline comments on the diff."
  • In review: "Each stop is a resolvable thread; resolving one ticks it off. Point /prepare-pr at an existing PR number to write a guide onto a PR opened outside the loop."

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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. 4d ago First seen · 82 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 26b31b6dd605

Subscribe to this mod's changes

guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository lucasnad27/claude-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 723 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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