plan-management

plan-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from QBall-Inc/clear. It costs 35 tokens per session (5,242 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for creating and managing a development plan from a brief or an existing YAML plan, a text file describing planned work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create plans, import them, check status, track progress, manage milestones, find blockers, and recommend next steps.
Why use it?
It gives a project a visible path from goals to milestones and makes blockers easier to identify.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the clear plugin — 15 skills, 3 agents, 7 hooks shipped together

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/qball-inc/clear/plan-management
Any agent
npx skills add QBall-Inc/clear --skill plan-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/QBall-Inc/clear

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install clear, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 3 agents, 7 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,242 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 $0.00035 $0.05242
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.02621
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.01048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00524

Measured 5d ago against content hash 45d9866ef129, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-management 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.

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-management/SKILL.md · 455 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 455 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLI Usage: When unsure about a CLI's interface or flags, run it with --help first. Do NOT attempt to discover functionality by reading plugin source code — doing so leads to incorrect execution from assumptions made without context of the holistic flow.

Plan Management Skill

This skill manages the full plan lifecycle: importing an existing plan YAML (Track A) or intelligently creating a new plan from scratch via a three-agent pipeline (Track B). It also handles ongoing plan operations: status queries, blocker detection, progress updates, and milestone management.

Plugin Root Resolution

CLI commands in this skill reference $CLEAR_PLUGIN_ROOT — a .claude/settings.json env var the shell expands. The SessionStart hook persists it, but settings env vars load at session launch, so on a brand-new consumer's first session (before its next restart) the variable is empty and node "$CLEAR_PLUGIN_ROOT/build/..." fails with MODULE_NOT_FOUND.

First-session bootstrap — if $CLEAR_PLUGIN_ROOT is empty, set it inline in the same Bash call as the CLI (each Bash call is a fresh shell, so a separate export would not carry over):

export CLEAR_PLUGIN_ROOT="${CLEAR_PLUGIN_ROOT:-${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}}"

Prepend it to the CLI in one shell line: export CLEAR_PLUGIN_ROOT="${CLEAR_PLUGIN_ROOT:-${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}}"; <node "$CLEAR_PLUGIN_ROOT/build/..." command>. ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} resolves in this SKILL.md body to the actually-loaded plugin path; once the consumer restarts, $CLEAR_PLUGIN_ROOT is populated and the assignment is a harmless no-op. Reference files are left unchanged.

When to Use

Trigger Pattern Track Action
User provides a path to a .yaml file with phases[]/workpackages[], or a directory containing plan_v*.md A Import via plan-import.sh
User provides a topic, brief, package.json description, or says "create a plan for..." B Three-agent creation pipeline
User says "what should I work on next?" or "recommend next steps" Read .clear/plans/ + analyze
User says "check for blockers" or "what's blocking progress" Invoke plan-blockers.sh
User says "update plan progress" or "recalculate progress" Invoke plan-progress.sh
User asks to read or view the current plan Read .clear/plans/master-plan.yaml

Read the full file on GitHub · 455 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. 5d ago First seen · 455 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 45d9866ef129

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plan-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository QBall-Inc/clear (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 5,242 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.

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