phase-kickoff

A planning helper that turns a project phase document into an ordered list of work and proposed work packages. It includes checks for specifications, tests, dependencies, risks, and right-to-left Hebrew interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps break a phase into epics and work packages, define acceptance criteria and error rules, choose test levels, and identify Hebrew or right-to-left interface requirements before coding.
Why use it?
It removes the need to turn a vague phase description into a detailed implementation plan by hand. It also keeps project-tracking information aligned with the planned work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/maorfsdev/reflect-yourself/phase-kickoff
Any agent
npx skills add maorfsdev/reflect-yourself --skill phase-kickoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maorfsdev/reflect-yourself

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 267 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 $0.00034 $0.00267
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00133
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00027

Measured 3d ago against content hash e9a70f22ac23, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

phase-kickoff 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 3d 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.

skill-examples/phase-kickoff/SKILL.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Phase Kickoff (Spec-first + Israeli-first)

Workflow: When invoked, use plan mode first to present the plan for review. Only create files after the user explicitly approves the plan and asks to implement it.

Inputs:

  • Phase file (default: docs/phases/CURRENT.md)
  • Desired parallelism (single vs 2–3 tracks)

Output:

  1. Phase summary
  2. Ordered plan by epics
  3. Proposed work packages with:
    • title, goal, acceptance criteria
    • spec checklist (contracts, invariants, error codes)
    • criticality (CRITICAL vs STANDARD)
    • RTL/Hebrew obligations (if UI)
    • dependencies + risks
  4. First work package to execute now

Todos and project-tracking: When creating the plan (or when the user approves it), add every deliverable/step as a todo. Always include a todo to update CURRENT.md per the project-tracking skill (set current phase, epic, work package so state stays in sync). Do not leave the todo list empty for a kickoff that has multiple deliverables.

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. 3d ago First seen · 25 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A e9a70f22ac23

Subscribe to this mod's changes

phase-kickoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository maorfsdev/reflect-yourself (24 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 267 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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