aw-create-plan

aw-create-plan is a skill for Claude Code from mthines/agent-skills. It costs 150 tokens per session (6,254 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning tool that creates a handoff document and executable acceptance checks for a software task. It stores them in the project's .agent folder so another session can continue the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Turning a conversation into a concrete development plan, defining acceptance tests, and refreshing the plan as the task changes.
Why use it?
It records the agreed requirements and checks in one place, reducing lost context between planning and implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the mthines-agent-skills plugin — 55 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Turning a conversation into a concrete development plan, defining acceptance tests, and refreshing the plan as the task changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mthines/agent-skills/aw-create-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 mthines/agent-skills --skill aw-create-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mthines/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mthines-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills, 4 agents.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 150 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,254 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 214
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 104
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
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 $0.00150 $0.06254
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.03127
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.01251
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00625

Measured 8d ago against content hash 99d1db67249e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aw-create-plan scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 8d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

run: "curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' localhost:3000/me -H 'Authorization: Bearer $EXPIRED'"
skills/workflow/aw-create-plan/SKILL.md · 495 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 495 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Plan Artifact

Generate .agent/{branch-name}/plan.md — the planner→executor handoff document — alongside checks.yaml, the executable acceptance checks derived from the Acceptance Criteria.

A new Claude session MUST be able to execute from plan.md alone without the original conversation.

plan.md is a handoff artifact, not an exhaustive knowledge base. Keep it lean (see the Core/Extended tiering in Step 2). checks.yaml is the living contract — it is re-derived on every iteration (statuses reset to pending) and self-validates against reality on every executor loop, so it does not go stale the way prose does. When something is unclear, prefer asking the still-running planner agent (or the user) over bloating the document to answer every future question.

Snapshot mode (opt-in)

By default this skill writes only plan.md (overwritten in place each iteration; the version: frontmatter is the iteration counter). .agent/ is gitignored per-developer scratch, so immutable plan.vN.md snapshot chains are not written by default — they are rarely re-read and cost a redundant write per iteration, with no measured effect on task success (research §5.4).

Opt in to snapshots with Skill("aw-create-plan", "snapshot") — then the skill also writes an immutable plan.v{N}.md alongside plan.md (plan.v1.md, plan.v2.md, … as history) for a durable audit trail of the plan's evolution. Everything below marked (snapshot mode) applies only then.

How the mode arg is read (disambiguation)

The arg slot is overloaded — some callers pass a short mode flag, others a whole plan body. Resolve it before anything else: snapshot mode is on iff the trimmed arg is exactly snapshot or --snapshot (case-insensitive, a single bare token). Every other arg — empty, or a multi-line plan.md body — is default mode (no snapshot). In particular, orchestrators like /fix-bug pass the whole plan body here (Skill("aw-create-plan", "<full plan.md body>")), which is default mode by design — the fast lane opts out of snapshots anyway.

Read the full file on GitHub · 495 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. 8d ago First seen · 495 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 99d1db67249e

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aw-create-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository mthines/agent-skills (13 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 6,254 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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