feature-planner

feature-planner is a skill for Claude Code from MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal. It costs 88 tokens per session (584 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning method for breaking larger coding work into ordered tasks and writing down its boundaries before implementation begins. Dependencies show which tasks must happen first.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for work affecting more than about three files or work that needs phases, acceptance criteria, or explicit exclusions.
Why use it?
It prevents a project from quietly growing beyond the request and exposes unknowns before coding starts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the specseal plugin — 22 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it for work affecting more than about three files or work that needs phases, acceptance criteria, or explicit exclusions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/michaelycjo/specseal/feature-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 MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal --skill feature-planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install specseal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 584 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.
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 $0.00088 $0.00584
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00234
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00058

Measured 7d ago against content hash d7c4eaa2b235, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

feature-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/feature-planner/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

feature-planner, write the scope down before it moves

Scope that lives in someone's head grows quietly, and nobody can point to when it did. Decomposing the work orders it; writing down what is not in it is what makes the boundary hold later.

Planning Steps

1. Requirements Clarification

  • What exactly is being requested?
  • What's explicitly NOT in scope?
  • What are the acceptance criteria?
  • Any constraints (performance, compatibility, timeline)?

2. Existing Code Analysis

  • What related code already exists?
  • What patterns does the project use?
  • What can be reused or extended, and what is built new?
  • What will break if X changes?

3. Implementation Plan

  • Break into ordered tasks (dependencies mapped)
  • Identify parallel and sequential work
  • Estimate which files change
  • Flag risky parts that need extra care

4. Scope Lock

  • List what's IN scope (explicit)
  • List what's OUT of scope (explicit)
  • Get user confirmation before starting

Rules

  • No gold-plating: plan only what's requested
  • Identify the MVP path first
  • Flag unknowns early (don't discover them mid-implementation)
  • Where more than ten files are affected, suggest a phased approach

Where the output goes

Into seal/specs/<work-item-id>/plan.md, as its Phases table: one row per phase, with the Verified by and Status columns that table carries. There is no separate task-list file and no separate root for one.

What that costs: a phase row holds an ordered slice, not a dependency graph, so the parallel markers in the format below do not survive into the file. They are for the conversation that produces the plan. Work finishing in one session needs no file at all.

Output Format

## Feature: [name]

**Scope**: [in]
**Not**: [out]

**Tasks** (in order):
1. [task], files: [files affected]
2. [task], files: [files affected]
   (depends on task 1)
3. [task], files: [files affected] (parallel with task 2)

**Risks**: [what could go wrong]
**Questions**: [what needs user input]

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 7d ago Changed · +1 lines · +5 tokens per session d7c4eaa2b235
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +2 tokens per session 26b36ddb43d0
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines da9308be357f
  4. 2mo ago First seen · 73 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 9eae02cf9b8a

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feature-planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal (1 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 584 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 2026-08-31.

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