hplan

hplan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Noirewinter/hplan. It costs 100 tokens per session (2,351 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A hierarchical planning system for complex, multi-stage coding work. It stores the overall plan, decisions, errors, specifications, and checklists in a .plan/ folder so the agent can refer back to them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break large projects into phases, track each phase’s work, record problems, and keep a persistent project summary.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk that a long task loses its original goal, detailed requirements, or important decisions as work progresses.

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/noirewinter/hplan/hplan-openclaw
Any agent
npx skills add Noirewinter/hplan --skill hplan-openclaw
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Noirewinter/hplan

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 hplan

README.md
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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,351 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 $0.00100 $0.02351
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.01175
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00470
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00235

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8b991b4ff9a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hplan 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 5d 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/hplan-openclaw/SKILL.md · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

hplan — Hierarchical Persistent Planning

Use the file system as persistent working memory for complex multi-phase tasks. This skill solves two problems that arise in long task executions:

  • Goal drift — the agent gradually forgets the original objective as the work progresses
  • Spec loss — detailed requirements, deliverables, and dependencies vanish from context

Core Idea

Context window = RAM (volatile, limited)
File system    = Disk (persistent, unlimited)
Memory system  = Long-term recall (cross-session, searchable)
→ Task structure and specs go to .plan/ (file system)
→ Key milestones and decisions go to memory (MEMORY.md / daily notes)
→ The overview stays concise for quick re-reading
→ All three layers work together to prevent drift and loss

.plan/ Directory Structure

All plan files are stored in the .plan/ directory under the current workspace:

.plan/
├── overview.md              ← Global summary (≤25 lines, re-read frequently)
├── decisions.md             ← Decision log
├── errors.md                ← Error log
└── phases/
    ├── phase1_xxx/
    │   ├── spec.md          ← Detailed spec for this phase
    │   └── checklist.md     ← Item-by-item completion status
    ├── phase2_xxx/
    │   └── ...
    └── ...

Use the templates in templates/ as starting points for each file. Always use relative paths (.plan/...) when reading and writing plan files.

Integration with OpenClaw Memory

hplan uses the file system for structured task data (.plan/ directory) and OpenClaw's memory system for cross-session awareness. They serve different purposes:

Layer What it stores Why
.plan/ files Full specs, checklists, detailed plans Structured, complete, not subject to compaction
MEMORY.md Task goal, current phase, key decisions Survives session restarts, loaded automatically
Daily notes Progress snapshots, phase completions Searchable history, compaction-safe via memory

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 5d ago First seen · 251 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 8b991b4ff9a9

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hplan is a skill published in the GitHub repository Noirewinter/hplan (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 2,351 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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