planning-commits

planning-commits is a skill for Claude Code from notorious-ai/claude-plugins. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,423 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for breaking a substantial code change into small, independent commits before writing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan an incremental commit sequence for changes in any programming language. It defines the scope and motivation of each commit but leaves commit-message wording to another guide.
Why use it?
Large mixed commits are harder to review, revert, test, and move between branches. This guide groups changes by user-facing value so each commit represents one clear, reviewable step.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the golang-dev plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan an incremental commit sequence for changes in any programming language. It defines the scope and motivation of each commit but leaves commit-message wording to another guide.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/notorious-ai/claude-plugins/planning-commits
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 notorious-ai/claude-plugins --skill planning-commits
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/notorious-ai/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install golang-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,423 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 $0.00000 $0.02423
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01211
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00485
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00242

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1406bd7cb9f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planning-commits 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 9d 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.

golang-dev/skills/planning-commits/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planning Commits

Plan the sequence of commits for any non-trivial changeset before writing code, and before drafting commit messages. The skill's output is a plan: a numbered list where each entry states one commit's scope in a single sentence and the context that motivates it.

Commit-message-writing skills consume this plan one entry at a time. Defer all message phrasing to the appropriate writing skill — in a Go-centric repository, golang-dev:committing. Planning stops at scope and context; naming the commit is a separate concern handled later.

Core Principles

A commit plan satisfies three facets together — atomic, fine-grained, incremental:

  • Atomic. Group changes by value (user-facing capability, feature, single decision), not by syntactic category (all types, all interfaces, all handlers). Each commit advances one identifiable piece of value that can be reverted, evaluated, or rebased in isolation from its neighbours.
  • Fine-grained. Each commit lands one reviewable change. The test is reviewability, not file count: a two-line diff can be fine-grained, a fifty-file diff is not, regardless of how small each edit is.
  • Incremental. Build the final value over a planned sequence. Start with a skeleton; layer capabilities; never forward-reference symbols or behaviours that do not yet exist on the branch.

For the full definitions, including the value-vs-syntactic distinction and the decision-rationale-layering benefit, consult references/triad.md.

Reference Files

File Contains Load When
references/triad.md Full definitions of atomic, fine-grained, incremental, with the value-vs-syntactic distinction First time the skill triggers in a session
references/plan-shape.md Shape of a plan entry, hand-off to the message-writing skill, worked mini-example Before producing the plan deliverable

When to Plan

Plan commits proactively at the earliest signal that the work ahead is non-trivial:

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 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. 9d ago First seen · 171 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 1406bd7cb9f0

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planning-commits is a skill published in the GitHub repository notorious-ai/claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,423 tokens. 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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