plan

A planning workflow for turning medium-sized or larger development tasks into phased implementation plans saved in the project knowledge store. Planning means deciding the work; it does not implement the changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new features, multi-file refactors, architectural changes, or tasks with several valid approaches.
Why use it?
It helps clarify scope, account for project principles, and track multi-file or architectural work before coding begins.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,546 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 $0.00053 $0.01546
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00773
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00309
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00155

Measured 2d ago against content hash 82b0fe31227b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan 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.

.agents/skills/plan/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan

Produce implementation plans grounded in project principles. Write plans to brain/plans/. Do NOT implement anything — the plan is the deliverable.

Use Tasks to track progress. Create a task for each step (TaskCreate), mark each in_progress when starting and completed when done (TaskUpdate). Check TaskList after completing each step.

Step 0 — Triage Complexity

Before running the full planning workflow, assess whether this task actually needs a plan:

Trivially small (1–2 files, obvious approach): Tell the user this task doesn't need a plan and suggest implementing directly without the plan skill. Stop here — do not implement.

Needs planning (proceed to Step 1):

  • The change spans 3+ files or introduces new architecture
  • There are multiple valid approaches and the user should weigh in
  • The task has unclear scope or cross-cutting concerns
  • The user explicitly asks for a plan

Step 1 — Load Principles

Read brain/principles.md. Follow every [[wikilink]] and read each linked principle file. These principles govern all plan decisions — refer back to them throughout.

Do NOT skip this. Do NOT use memorized principle content — always read fresh.

Step 2 — Define Scope and Constraints

Use AskUserQuestion to resolve ambiguity before exploring the codebase:

  • What is in scope vs explicitly out of scope?
  • Are there constraints (dependencies, platform requirements, existing patterns to preserve)?
  • What does "done" look like?

Frame questions with concrete options. If the request is already clear, confirm scope boundaries briefly and move on.

Step 3 — Explore Context with Subagents

Always delegate exploration to subagents via the Task tool. Never do large-scale codebase exploration in the main context.

Spawn exploration agents (subagent_type: Explore) to:

  • Read existing code in affected areas
  • Identify patterns, conventions, and dependencies
  • Map architecture relevant to the change
  • Find tests, types, and related infrastructure

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 2d ago First seen · 157 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 82b0fe31227b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository poteto/brainmaxxing (269 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,546 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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