project-planner

project-planner is a skill for Claude Code from mgiovani/cc-arsenal. It costs 112 tokens per session (2,150 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-planning guide that turns a large or unclear project into smaller tasks arranged by dependencies, meaning which tasks must come first. It also produces a Mermaid diagram, a text-based visual map of those dependencies, and identifies the critical path, or tasks that determine the earliest finish date.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need to plan a project, break work into tasks, determine dependency order, or map the work visually.
Why use it?
It helps reveal missing work, ordering problems, and tasks that could delay the project. It also gives the team a way to track progress.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the cc-arsenal plugin — 53 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when you need to plan a project, break work into tasks, determine dependency order, or map the work visually.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mgiovani/cc-arsenal/project-planner
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 mgiovani/cc-arsenal --skill project-planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mgiovani/cc-arsenal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cc-arsenal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for project-planner

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mgiovani/cc-arsenal/project-planner"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mgiovani/cc-arsenal/project-planner.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,150 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 $0.00112 $0.02150
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01075
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00430
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00215

Measured 7d ago against content hash fb89434f8962, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-planner 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 7d 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/project-planner/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Planner

Break a large, complex project into manageable tasks with clear dependencies, progress tracking, and a visual diagram.

Project to Plan

$ARGUMENTS

Planning Workflow

This skill has exactly two possible outputs: a full plan (Phases 0-4), or (when the scope fails the gate in Step 0.2) clarifying questions and nothing else. Never both in the same turn.

Portability: No Task/TaskCreate tools in this environment? Do the analysis yourself instead of delegating to an Explore agent, and track the resulting tasks as a plain markdown checklist (- [ ] Task name, blocked by: ...) instead of TaskCreate calls. The phases and the dependency diagram are the deliverable; the Task tool is just Claude Code's way of tracking them. In an eval or sandbox run, never call the real session Task/TaskCreate/TaskUpdate/TaskList tools: those mutate the operator's actual task list. If the prompt instead asks you to record intended calls into a file (e.g. outputs/tasks.json), do that instead and treat it as the graded deliverable.

Phase 0: Project Analysis

Step 0.1: Understand Project Scope

Use a Haiku-powered Explore agent for token-efficient codebase analysis:

Use Task tool with Explore agent:
- prompt: "Analyze the project to understand:
    1. Read CLAUDE.md and README.md for project context
    2. Identify project type (web app, API, CLI, library, etc.)
    3. Map out major components and modules
    4. Note technology stack and frameworks
    5. Identify existing patterns and conventions
    6. Find similar completed features to reference
    Return a structured summary of the project architecture."
- subagent_type: "Explore"
- model: "haiku"  # Token-efficient for exploration

Step 0.2: Scope Gate

Check whether the request names a concrete deliverable and rough boundaries (what's in, what's out). If it doesn't (e.g. "improve the app", "make things better", "plan our roadmap" with no target named), stop. End the response with 2-3 clarifying questions (via AskUserQuestion or plain prose) about the concrete deliverable, scope boundaries, or target outcome, and produce nothing else: no task breakdown, no TaskCreate calls, no Mermaid diagram, no files. A 25-task plan built on invented scope is worse than no plan, because the user must now audit every task against what they actually meant, instead of just answering the question. Do not soften this into "ask, then proceed with reasonable assumptions anyway": the questions are the entire response.

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 7d ago First seen · 152 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A fb89434f8962

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project-planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository mgiovani/cc-arsenal (7 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 2,150 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.