tpp

A living Technical Project Plan, or TPP, is a document that records the design, discoveries, decisions, and next steps for a multi-session coding task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to resume the correct phase of a planned feature, follow the project’s instructions, and update the plan with progress and findings.
Why use it?
It prevents developers or agents from having to rediscover the project context when work pauses or changes hands.

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/photostructure/coding-skills/tpp
Any agent
npx skills add photostructure/coding-skills --skill tpp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/photostructure/coding-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 580 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 $0.00047 $0.00580
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00290
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00058

Measured 2d ago against content hash a8a588207584, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tpp 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 2d 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.

plugins/coding/skills/tpp/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Work on TPP

Documented in depth: Claude Code has amnesia. So do PRs, changelogs, and your future self.

A Technical Project Plan (TPP) is a living handoff document: it carries research, design decisions, failed approaches, and next steps across sessions, so the next session (or the next engineer) continues instead of restarting.

Make progress on the referenced TPP. Determine the current phase and take appropriate action.

Required Reading First

Before any work, you MUST read:

  • The project's instructions: AGENTS.md, plus CLAUDE.md when present
  • The project's TPP guide: docs/TPP-GUIDE.md if it exists; otherwise the bundled reference TPP-GUIDE.md

Process

  1. Read the referenced TPP. It will live in _todo/, in a priority folder (_active/, _p1/_p4/), or in a documented feature integration queue matching _feat-<name>/ if this project uses them.
  2. Identify the current phase.
  3. Do the work for that phase.
  4. Update the TPP with progress and discoveries — gotchas, rejected approaches, and the why behind decisions, not a transcript.

When context runs low before the work is done, invoke the handoff skill rather than letting the session end silently. When the TPP is complete, move it to _done/.

Adapting for your project

  • Create a project docs/TPP-GUIDE.md (start from the bundled reference) and tailor the layout, frontmatter fields, and template to your conventions — the project guide always takes precedence over the bundled copy.
  • Extend the required reading list with your high-value docs (DESIGN-PRINCIPLES.md, TDD.md, architecture decisions). Every listed file is read on every invocation, so keep it short.
  • Automate durable reminders portably. Put the TPP update requirement in the repository's AGENTS.md, or use a supported project hook or automation that prompts the coding agent to update the active TPP before a task ends.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 2d ago First seen · 51 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A a8a588207584

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tpp is a skill published in the GitHub repository photostructure/coding-skills (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 580 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.