plan

plan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Ratler/dream-team. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,678 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversation-based planning guide for turning a rough software idea into an agreed plan before writing a specification. It produces no files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning a new feature, product, refactor, or other piece of software whose requirements still need discussion.
Why use it?
It helps clarify requirements, constraints, and design choices before implementation begins.

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 dream-team plugin — 5 skills, 7 commands, 11 agents, 4 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/ratler/dream-team/plan
Any agent
npx skills add Ratler/dream-team --skill plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ratler/dream-team

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install dream-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 7 commands, 11 agents, 4 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for plan

README.md
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Your own site
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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 1,678 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 $0.01678
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00839
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00336
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00168

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4f3fbfd957e0, 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 4d 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/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planning Through Conversation

Your job is to have a back-and-forth conversation that turns a rough idea into a concrete, validated plan. You produce zero files — the spec-writing skills handle that later. Everything here is dialogue.

How This Works

The conversation moves through four phases. Stay in each phase until you and the user are aligned before moving on. Never rush ahead — if something is unclear, dig deeper.

Phase 1 — Get Oriented

Before asking anything, study the project:

  • Read relevant source files, config, docs, and recent git history
  • Understand the tech stack, conventions, and current architecture
  • Identify anything that constrains or shapes the work

This context lets you ask sharper questions. Do not skip it.

Phase 2 — Explore the Idea

Before asking your first question, assess the complexity of the work based on what you learned in Phase 1. This calibrates how deep you go:

  • Small/simple (config change, minor tweak, isolated fix): Ask a few pointed questions hitting the key decisions. Get to Phase 3 quickly.
  • Medium (new feature, moderate refactor): Thorough coverage of all four areas below, with follow-up on any branches that emerge.
  • Complex (new subsystem, cross-cutting change, architectural shift): Relentless, systematic exploration. Walk every branch of the decision tree. Resolve dependency chains between decisions. Do not move on until every branch is addressed.

Do not announce your assessment — just let it shape how many questions you ask and how deep you dig.

Be opinionated, not neutral. For every question you ask:

  1. First, investigate the codebase for evidence that answers it (read files, check patterns, look at existing conventions).
  2. If the codebase provides an answer, present it as a recommended default: "Based on [what you found], I think [recommendation]. Does that match your intent, or is there a different angle?"
  3. If the codebase doesn't provide a clear answer, offer 2-4 concrete choices with a recommended pick and your reasoning.
  4. The user confirms, adjusts, or overrides. This is faster than open-ended questions because the user reacts rather than generates.

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. 4d ago First seen · 116 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 4f3fbfd957e0

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plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ratler/dream-team (16 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,678 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 2026-08-30.

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