implement-plan

A workflow for carrying out an approved implementation plan, checking each task, and reviewing the finished changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Executing a plan found in the project, implementing tasks, verifying them, reviewing the results, fixing issues, and committing the completed changes.
Why use it?
It breaks planned work into verified steps and provides checks for implementation mistakes before the work is considered complete.

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/paultyng/skill-issue/implement-plan
Any agent
npx skills add paultyng/skill-issue --skill implement-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paultyng/skill-issue

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 200 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,501 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00200 $0.03501
Opus 5 $0.00100 $0.01750
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00700
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00350

Measured 3d ago against content hash 8d5be999cd8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

implement-plan scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

Implementer must probe before claiming DONE — run the verification command, grep for the expected change, do not paraphrase "should work" as evidence. Per `~/.claude/rules/probe-not-assume.md`.
skills/implement-plan/SKILL.md · 231 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Implement Plan

Drive an approved implementation plan to completion: review-plan gate → per-task loop (implementer → verify → reviewer → triage → commit → tick) → end-of-plan review. Manual invocation only. Never auto-creates PRs.

Workflow

1. Resolve the plan and check preconditions

Plan resolution (priority order):

  1. Explicit path argument (e.g. /implement-plan .plans/auth-rewrite.md).
  2. ./.plans/PLAN.md in cwd.
  3. Latest by mtime in ./.plans/*.md.
  4. Legacy fallback (one-release transition): ./PLAN.md in cwd, then latest by mtime in ./docs/plans/*.md. If either resolves, warn once: Plan resolved from legacy path <X>; consider moving under .plans/.
  5. None resolve → stop, ask the user. Do not guess. Do not assume "do it" meant something else; if no plan, this skill should not have activated — exit cleanly.

CLAUDE.md override: if the project CLAUDE.md (or CLAUDE.local.md) contains a directive like Plans live in <path>, use <path> as the primary discovery dir instead of .plans/. Skip the gitignore bootstrap below in that case — the user has taken responsibility for the path.

After resolving a path under .plans/ (steps 2 or 3), call once per run:

~/.claude/scripts/ensure-gitignore.sh '.plans/'

This is idempotent. Skip for legacy paths (step 4) and for CLAUDE.md overrides.

Read the plan file fully. Capture: total task count, unchecked task count, any Branch policy section (see reference.md → Plan header conventions), and any Behavior delta section (its Acceptance: criteria are verified at end-of-plan, step 5).

Precondition checks (fail-fast — abort with a clear message if any fails):

# In a git repo?
git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >/dev/null 2>&1 || abort "not a git repo"

# Working tree clean? Catches uncommitted + untracked (.plans/ is gitignored, so plan files are invisible to git — that is intentional).
[ -z "$(git status --porcelain)" ] || abort "working tree not clean — commit, stash, or discard first"

# origin remote exists?
git remote get-url origin >/dev/null 2>&1 || abort "no 'origin' remote — see reference.md for fallback"

Read the full file on GitHub · 231 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 231 lines · 200 tokens per session scan B 8d5be999cd8e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

implement-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository paultyng/skill-issue (9 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 200 tokens to every session and 3,501 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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