plan-create

A planning assistant for software changes. It turns a feature request into an ordered set of implementation tasks, including dependencies and tests for TDD, or test-driven development.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building a new feature, starting an app, or making a change that needs several coordinated steps and automated tests. The plan can then be handed to parallel development workers.
Why use it?
It makes large or multi-file changes easier to execute by showing what must be done and in what order. It also catches setup or review failures before planning continues.

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/markshust/hcf/plan-create
Any agent
npx skills add markshust/hcf --skill plan-create
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markshust/hcf

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 171 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,087 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 $0.00171 $0.05087
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.02544
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.01017
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00509

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9eaae5f7f77a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-create 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/plan-create/SKILL.md · 493 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 493 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan Create

Transform feature requests into structured plans with task breakdowns, dependencies, and TDD requirements for parallel autonomous execution.

Project Architecture

Execution Flow

Phase 0: Pre-plan hook

Run this once, at the very start, before Phase 1 discovery.

Run the pre-plan hook.

Run the discovery script — never enumerate agent files by hand:

"{skill-base-dir}/../../hooks/discover-hooks.sh" --hook=pre-plan

{skill-base-dir} is the Base directory for this skill value stated when this skill loaded. ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} is not available in a skill's Bash calls.

  • Exit 0, empty stdout → empty hook. This is the default. Return immediately: print nothing, spawn nothing, say nothing about the hook at all, and proceed to Phase 1. Do not narrate that the script returned no agents — that is the narration HOOKS.md forbids.
  • Exit 0, outputprint the output verbatim as the resolved agent order, then spawn each listed agent in order per its mode.
  • Any non-zero exitstop. Surface the script's stderr verbatim and do not continue planning. Exit 3 means an agent file declares an invalid phase or mode; exit 4 means enrollment drifted. Neither is an empty hook. If the script is missing or not executable, that is also a hard stop — there is no fallback, and you must not reconstruct the routine by hand.

Capture the enrollment fingerprint now, for Phase 6's drift check:

"{skill-base-dir}/../../hooks/discover-hooks.sh" --fingerprint

Hold that value. A fingerprint is only ever produced by running the script — never reconstruct, abbreviate, or recall one from memory. If it is not to hand at Phase 6, re-run the command and say so. A hallucinated digest makes every later check fail with bogus drift and bricks the plan.

IMPORTANT — no plan name exists yet. The pre-plan hook fires before Phase 1 discovery. The plan name and plan directory are not created until Phase 3, so there is no plan name to pass. Each pre-plan agent receives only:

  1. The raw feature request (the user's verbatim ask).
  2. The project's architecture context:

Read the full file on GitHub · 493 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. 2d ago First seen · 493 lines · 171 tokens per session scan A 9eaae5f7f77a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plan-create is a skill published in the GitHub repository markshust/hcf (67 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 171 tokens to every session and 5,087 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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