implement-plan

A workflow for carrying out an existing Markdown plan from start to finish, including implementation, checks, and review follow-up.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when implementing, executing, carrying out, or continuing a written plan. It tracks requirements, coordinates delegated tasks, checks the changes, and closes review findings.
Why use it?
It helps prevent plan requirements from being missed or marked complete without evidence. It also keeps new findings from quietly expanding the 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/maxedapps/agent-skills/implement-plan
Any agent
npx skills add maxedapps/agent-skills --skill implement-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maxedapps/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,314 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 $0.00058 $0.01314
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00657
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00131

Measured 2d ago against content hash 10f891c29129, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

implement-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/implement-plan/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Implement Plan

Hard rules

  • Stay on the plan’s required outcome. Discovery/review do not add scope.
  • Prefer the smallest behavior-preserving change. Skip unnecessary abstractions/tests/safeguards.
  • Delegate by default when safe. “Small/easy” is not a reason to skip subagents.
  • Leverage subagents — built-in, extensions/plugins, or skills. Follow use-subagents policy; use native subagents, extensions / plugins, or other skills
  • Main agent owns: tracker, integration, dispositions, acceptance, user comms, cleanup.
  • Child handoffs = evidence, never acceptance. Inspect diffs; rerun checks.
  • Findings / decomplex recs never auto-create work — disposition first.
  • Material doubt, scope/risk choices, or stuck review loops → ask user.
  • Never fake Complete.

Startup (blocking)

  1. Read the full plan (offset if truncated).
  2. Read assets/progress-tracker-template.md with the file tool (memory doesn’t count).
  3. Leverage subagents — built-in, extensions/plugins, or via skills.
  4. Copy/adapt tracker into the plan or a standalone file.
  5. Map every actionable plan requirement → tracker rows (split compound work into tasks/subtasks).
  6. Record Template loaded from: implement-plan/assets/progress-tracker-template.md.
  7. Only then implement.

On resume: repeat startup and reconcile. Missing template → stop.

Task loop

For each dependency-ready task/subtask (delegate by default):

  1. Analyze — read starts-at paths, callers, tests; research only if needed (web-research when third-party/current behavior is uncertain).
  2. Implement — smallest change that satisfies the row; stay in ownership; record deviations.
  3. Check — targeted tests + applicable lint/typecheck/build/migration/browser (agent-browser for UI).
  4. Review — independent code-review when the task crosses a real boundary, or when the batch/phase completes; always for final full-plan review.
  5. Disposition findings:
    • Fix now · Validate · Reject · Ask user · Block
    • Fix accepted items (delegate); rerun checks; focused re-review until Clear
    • Complexity-increasing fix → decomplex triage if available, else built-in gate; doubt → ask user
    • Two failed rounds / recurrence / no progress → ask user
  6. Update trackerVerified needs evidence; Descoped needs user approval.
  7. Cleanup lane resources per use-subagents (and launcher runtime cleanup, e.g. Pi clean, if used) — no unaccounted workflow-owned resources.
  8. Next ready task/subtask.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 2d ago First seen · 97 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 10f891c29129

Subscribe to this mod's changes

implement-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository maxedapps/agent-skills (58 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,314 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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