planning

planning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents. It costs 62 tokens per session (2,589 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for turning a vague coding task into a documented implementation plan before writing code. It gathers project context, asks clarifying questions, and compares possible approaches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before implementing features, fixing larger bugs, refactoring across files, or moving from brainstorming to approved development work.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of building the wrong solution when requirements, constraints, or existing project patterns are unclear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it before implementing features, fixing larger bugs, refactoring across files, or moving from brainstorming to approved development work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pixel-process-ug/superkit-agents/planning
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents --skill planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,589 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 $0.00062 $0.02589
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.01036
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00518
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00259

Measured 1mo ago against content hash be963faaea1c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planning 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 1mo 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.

templates/skills/planning/SKILL.md · 300 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 300 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Structured Planning

Overview

Structured planning converts vague requirements into approved, documented implementation plans before any code is written. It forces clarifying questions, approach comparison with trade-offs, and explicit user approval — preventing the most common cause of wasted effort: building the wrong thing. Every task, regardless of perceived simplicity, goes through this process.

Announce at start: "I'm using the planning skill to create a structured implementation plan."

Trigger Conditions

  • User requests a new feature, enhancement, or change
  • A bug fix requires more than a one-line change
  • Refactoring work spanning multiple files
  • Any task where the approach is not already documented and approved
  • Transition from brainstorming skill with an approved design
  • /plan command invoked

Phase 1: Context Gathering

Goal: Understand the codebase and existing patterns before asking questions.

  1. Read relevant files, docs, recent commits, and CLAUDE.md
  2. Check memory files for known project context, stack, and conventions
  3. Review existing plans in docs/plans/ for related work
  4. Identify existing patterns the new work should follow
  5. Note technical constraints discovered during exploration

STOP — Do NOT proceed to Phase 2 until:

  • You have explored the relevant parts of the codebase
  • You understand the existing architecture and patterns
  • You have checked memory files for prior decisions

Phase 2: Clarifying Questions

Goal: Eliminate ambiguity by asking targeted questions one at a time.

  1. Ask ONE question per message — never overwhelm with multiple questions
  2. Prefer multiple choice questions when possible
  3. Study the codebase before asking — do not ask what you can discover
  4. Convert vague requirements into specific, testable criteria

Question Category Priority

Priority Category Example Question
1 Purpose "What problem does this solve? Who is it for?"
2 Success criteria "How will we know it works? What does 'done' look like?"
3 Constraints "Are there performance, compatibility, or timeline constraints?"
4 Non-goals "What should we explicitly NOT build?"
5 Existing patterns "Should we follow the pattern used in X, or is a new approach needed?"
6 Edge cases "What should happen when [boundary condition]?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 300 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. 1mo ago First seen · 300 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A be963faaea1c

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planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents (3 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 2,589 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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