plan-verification-checklist

plan-verification-checklist is a skill for Claude Code from oborchers/fractional-cto. It costs 235 tokens per session (3,533 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for reviewing a master plan before someone follows it. It checks that phases, required sections, questions, file paths, and completion conditions are present and usable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit multi-phase plans for completeness, actionable steps, dependencies, and relevant sections such as rollback instructions.
Why use it?
It finds missing or unclear planning details before implementation starts. Findings are labelled by severity so critical problems can be separated from suggestions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the planning-tools plugin — 5 skills, 7 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit multi-phase plans for completeness, actionable steps, dependencies, and relevant sections such as rollback instructions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oborchers/fractional-cto/plan-verification-checklist
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 oborchers/fractional-cto --skill plan-verification-checklist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oborchers/fractional-cto

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install planning-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 7 commands, 3 agents.

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Per session 235 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,533 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 $0.00235 $0.03533
Opus 5.5 $0.00094 $0.01413
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00047 $0.00707
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00353

Measured 5d ago against content hash 96b16e85c936, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-verification-checklist 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.

planning-tools/skills/plan-verification-checklist/SKILL.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan Verification Checklist

This skill codifies the audit performed by /planning-tools:plan-verify and the plan-verifier agent. It is the single owner of the checklist; the command and agent both reference it rather than duplicating rules.

The checklist applies to any master plan written under the master-plan-methodology skill. Findings are graded Critical, Important, or Suggestion.

Severity guide

  • Critical — the plan cannot be safely executed as written. Phase numbering violates the integer-only rule; required universal-core sections are missing; phases have no actionable scope (no file paths, no exit criteria); cited sources do not exist.
  • Important — the plan can be executed but has gaps that will cause friction. Trigger-based optional sections are missing despite the work clearly touching that area (e.g., schema changes with no Rollback section); dependency notation is vague; Open Questions appear at the bottom instead of after the context block.
  • Suggestion — the plan would benefit from polish. Bold-prefix callouts not used where they would help; cross-references use absolute paths instead of relative; status emoji inconsistent.

Audit dimensions

1. Universal-core completeness

Verify every required section is present and in the prescribed order:

  • Title (H1) with one-line synopsis
  • Plan-level TL;DR (v0.3.3+): the first non-blank line under the H1 starts with **TL;DR:** and contains 2–4 sentences (what the plan does + why). Missing or empty = Important (readability gap, not Critical; PASS still reachable). Mirrors the per-phase TL;DR rule.
  • Context block — a bulleted metadata list (- **Ticket(s):** …, - **PRD / Source:** …, - **Evidence:** …, - **Depends on:** …, - **Constraints:** …, optional leading - **Ticket:** <url>) immediately under the TL;DR. Legacy > blockquote context blocks (pre-v0.3.3) are accepted silently — no finding either way.
  • Open Questions section as an unordered list (no table), located immediately after the context block (Critical finding if at the bottom)
  • Resolved Questions section as an unordered list (may be empty; no table)
  • Implementation Phases section with ### Phase <N>: <name> <emoji> H3 headings and - bulleted scope items (no table; v0.3.2+ canonical shape is plain bullets, legacy - [ ]/- [x] accepted silently)
  • Design Principles numbered list
  • What's NOT in (and why) section

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 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. 5d ago First seen · 234 lines · 235 tokens per session scan A 96b16e85c936

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plan-verification-checklist is a skill published in the GitHub repository oborchers/fractional-cto (32 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 235 tokens to every session and 3,533 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-10-13.

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