spec-plan

spec-plan is a skill for Claude Code from martinffx/atelier. It costs 90 tokens per session (2,964 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for writing a clear implementation plan for software work. It supports a short conversational plan for bounded tasks or a structured plan based on an approved design document.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break down a feature, convert design.md into plan.json, or create an inline plan for a smaller change.
Why use it?
It turns an agreed approach into steps another engineer can follow. It stops after planning, so implementation remains a separate action.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the atelier plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to break down a feature, convert design.md into plan.json, or create an inline plan for a smaller change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martinffx/atelier/spec-plan
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 martinffx/atelier --skill spec-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martinffx/atelier

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install atelier, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,964 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00090 $0.02964
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.01186
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00593
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00296

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5d446ea0ff59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-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 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.

skills/spec-plan/SKILL.md · 343 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 343 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec Plan

Write a proportional plan so clear that any engineer can follow it. The selected planning mode determines whether the plan stays in the conversation or becomes a persisted structured artifact. This skill does not write code or start implementation.

atelier-orchestrator owns automatic classification and the human may override it. When this skill is directly invoked without a selected mode, use Spec-backed Plan. If Inline planning reveals substantial design or coordination needs, ask the human whether to switch to a Spec-backed Plan before presenting the plan.

Terminal boundary

This skill produces exactly one plan output and then stops:

  • Inline mode presents the plan in conversation and changes no repository files.
  • Spec-backed mode creates or updates only plan.json from an approved design.md.

Planning drafts and annotation cycles stay in conversation. Do not modify design.md, persist a Markdown plan draft, create tracker entries, invoke another workflow skill, or edit implementation files. These rules still apply when the human asks to plan and implement in one request. Implementation requires a later, explicit request after this skill has finished.

Planning Rules

  • Organize tasks around required behavior, not one task per layer.
  • Record a short list of behavior the change must preserve.
  • For each task, identify existing code to reuse, modify, or delete.
  • Map every new abstraction to a present requirement and its current consumers.
  • Introduce shared infrastructure only when at least two current consumers demonstrate the same need.
  • Group tests by changed contract and active boundary. Do not repeat the CRUD matrix across layers.
  • Plan tests at each module's interface, not past it (see oracle-codebase-design).

Proportionality Gate

Before presenting any plan, compare its size and concepts with the requested behavior. If a bounded migration or refactor introduces shared infrastructure, unrelated behavior, or a plan substantially larger than the behavior being changed, stop and simplify it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 343 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. 3d ago Changed · -1 lines 5d446ea0ff59
  2. 11d ago Changed · +20 lines df6786407436
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 324 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 2711c9081834

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spec-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository martinffx/atelier (48 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 2,964 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.