make-outline-plan

make-outline-plan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nirecom/agents. It costs 48 tokens per session (3,965 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning step that proposes two or three distinct high-level approaches before detailed planning begins. It produces an outline for the user to review and approve.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after intent has been clarified to compare possible approaches, handle conflicting research claims, and obtain sign-off or justify a single obvious approach.
Why use it?
It helps resolve major direction choices before time is spent writing a detailed plan.

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/nirecom/agents/make-outline-plan
Any agent
npx skills add nirecom/agents --skill make-outline-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nirecom/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,965 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 $0.00048 $0.03965
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01982
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00793
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00396

Measured 4d ago against content hash e7e6af6c5236, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

make-outline-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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/check-detail-skip.sh, scripts/check-outline-skip.sh, scripts/run-codex-review-loop.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/make-outline-plan/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Propose high-level approaches and get user sign-off before detailed planning.

Skip this stage via <<WORKFLOW_OUTLINE_NOT_NEEDED: {reason}>> when a single obvious approach exists. To skip both this stage AND detail, emit WORKFLOW_OUTLINE_NOT_NEEDED and WORKFLOW_DETAIL_NOT_NEEDED in sequence. When outline-planner returns SINGLE_APPROACH_JUSTIFIED, skip the review/sign-off loop and proceed directly to make-detail-plan.

Inputs

  • <PLANS_DIR>/<session-id>-intent.md — output of clarify-intent (cross-session carry-in allowed)
  • <PLANS_DIR>/<session-id>-survey-{code,history}.md — optional; contain ## Verified Claims
  • All sentinels in MOP-0 are emitted by the orchestrator (Bash tool), never by a subagent.
  • Session-id used for *-outline.md matches the intent file actually used.

Procedure

Apply skills/_shared/resolve-plans-dir.md once; substitute the resolved absolute path for every <PLANS_DIR> below. Reuse across steps.

MOP-0. Surface premise contradictions from Research artifacts. MOP-0a. Determine session-id from CLAUDE_SESSION_ID env (MOP-1 has not run yet — this lookup precedes intent-file resolution). - state.steps.research.status === "skipped" → skip to MOP-0d. - One/both <session-id>-survey-{code,history}.md missing AND research not skipped → warn once in chat ("Research artifacts incomplete — proceeding without full premise verification") and continue to MOP-0d. Do not block. MOP-0b. Read ## Verified Claims from each existing artifact; collect items with verdict: contradicted. MOP-0c. Any contradicted claims → display the contradicted claim list in chat; instruct the user: "The survey has found premise contradictions. Revise intent.md to reflect the correct premises and re-run /clarify-intent."; abort the skill (do not proceed further). MOP-0d. Emit <<WORKFLOW_MARK_STEP_research_complete>> to mark Research complete (aggregating survey-code and survey-history, which no longer emit it individually; deep-research's emit, if any, is idempotent).

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 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. 4d ago First seen · 151 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A e7e6af6c5236

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make-outline-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository nirecom/agents (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 3,965 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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