ce:plan

A structured planning workflow for multi-step goals such as software features, research, events, or study. It explains how to carry out the work but does not implement code or run tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone asks how to build or organize a complex task, especially before handing the plan to a separate execution workflow.
Why use it?
It turns requirements, bug reports, or rough ideas into a durable implementation plan. Interactive review can help resolve unclear parts before execution.

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/marcusrbrown/systematic/ce-plan
Any agent
npx skills add marcusrbrown/systematic --skill ce-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcusrbrown/systematic

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 13,268 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 $0.00152 $0.13268
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.06634
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.02654
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.01327

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3ae0663af558, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ce:plan 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 2d 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.

skills/ce-plan/SKILL.md · 905 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 905 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Technical Plan

Note: The current year is 2026. Use this when dating plans and searching for recent documentation.

ce:brainstorm defines WHAT to build. ce:plan defines HOW to build it. ce:work executes the plan. A prior brainstorm is useful context but never required — ce:plan works from any input: a requirements doc, a bug report, a feature idea, or a rough description.

When directly invoked, always plan. Never classify a direct invocation as "not a planning task" and abandon the workflow. If the input is unclear, ask clarifying questions or use the planning bootstrap (Phase 0.4) to establish enough context — but always stay in the planning workflow.

This workflow produces a durable implementation plan. It does not implement code, run tests, or learn from execution-time results. If the answer depends on changing code and seeing what happens, that belongs in ce:work, not here.

Interaction Method

Use the platform's question tool when available. When asking the user a question, prefer the platform's blocking question tool if one exists (question in OpenCode, request_user_input in Codex, ask_user in Gemini; in Pi, use the blocking-question extension if available, otherwise present numbered options in chat and wait). Otherwise, present numbered options in chat and wait for the user's reply before proceeding.

Ask one question at a time. Prefer a concise single-select choice when natural options exist.

Feature Description

<feature_description> #$ARGUMENTS </feature_description>

If the feature description above is empty, ask the user: "What would you like to plan? Describe the task, goal, or project you have in mind." Then wait for their response before continuing.

If the input is present but unclear or underspecified, do not abandon — ask one or two clarifying questions, or proceed to Phase 0.4's planning bootstrap to establish enough context. The goal is always to help the user plan, never to exit the workflow.

Read the full file on GitHub · 905 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 905 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A 3ae0663af558

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ce:plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository marcusrbrown/systematic (24 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 13,268 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.