plan-dag

plan-dag is a skill for Claude Code from onsager-ai/dev-skills. It costs 136 tokens per session (4,081 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that draws a dependency diagram of software work, with issues, smaller issues, and pull requests as connected nodes. It shows which work is finished, underway, ready to start, or blocked in a PNG image.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to visualize a GitHub-backed plan, identify what can start next, find blockers, and understand dependencies between issues and pull requests.
Why use it?
It makes the order and dependencies between tasks easier to see than a list of issue text, including the critical path and work that can happen in parallel.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

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/onsager-ai/dev-skills/plan-dag
Any agent
npx skills add onsager-ai/dev-skills --skill plan-dag
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/onsager-ai/dev-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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 plan-dag

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/onsager-ai/dev-skills/plan-dag.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/onsager-ai/dev-skills/plan-dag)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/onsager-ai/dev-skills/plan-dag"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/onsager-ai/dev-skills/plan-dag.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 136 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,081 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 5.1 $0.00136 $0.04081
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.02041
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00816
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00408

Measured 5d ago against content hash a3f7e6ec4914, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-dag 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/plan-dag-render.py, scripts/plan-dag-render.test.sh, scripts/svg-to-png.mjs), 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/plan-dag/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

plan-dag

Render the current plan as a dependency DAG so sequencing, the critical path, and parallelizable work are visible at a glance. Output is a high-DPI PNG with status fills, an "available next" highlight, and a double-bordered close sentinel — rasterised from a styled graphviz layout through headless Chromium, then sent to the user via SendUserFile.

This skill is repo-agnostic. It assumes a GitHub-backed issue tracker with sub-issue links and dependency-language prose; it makes no assumptions about specific labels, area taxonomies, or repo-specific dev-process skills.

Why PNG and not HTML / ASCII? PNG is the only output that survives every chat surface the skill targets. ASCII / Unicode box-drawing loses column alignment when surfaces reflow whitespace or apply syntax highlighting, and it can't carry the color/status fills that make state legible at a glance. Self-contained HTML pages don't render inline in chat — they download as attachments, which defeats the point of an at-a-glance diagram. PNG renders inline, keeps color, and doesn't depend on the host's font or rendering quirks.

When to use

  • After a what's next survey, to commit to a sequence.
  • When asked "what's left for #N" on an umbrella spec with sub-issues.
  • Before picking the next branch — to see what unblocks the most downstream work.
  • When a spec fans out into N sub-issues and the dependency edges aren't all linear.

Skip when:

  • A single-PR spec — the plan is the Plan section, not a DAG.
  • An unanswered design question — drawing a DAG before alignment is theater.
  • The "graph" is one linear chain of three or fewer nodes — a sentence is shorter than a diagram.

Inputs

Parameter Default
Scope Inferred — current branch's spec, the umbrella the user named, or the open issues just surveyed.
Granularity Spec-level; drop to sub-issue / PR level for an umbrella that has fanned out.
Output High-DPI PNG (only target). --out <path> is required; emoji status indicators are on by default and can be turned off with --emoji=off if the rendering system lacks a color emoji font.

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 200 lines · 136 tokens per session scan A a3f7e6ec4914

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plan-dag is a skill published in the GitHub repository onsager-ai/dev-skills (5 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 4,081 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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