validate-plan

validate-plan is a skill for Claude Code from rfxlamia/pocketto. It costs 47 tokens per session (3,198 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A plan-review workflow that checks a software implementation plan for repeated logic, unnecessary scope, missing details, and test-first development. TDD, or test-driven development, means writing tests before the code they specify.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a plan from a planning workflow or supplied text before developers execute it.
Why use it?
It can expose overengineering, scope creep, and gaps before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the pocketto plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a plan from a planning workflow or supplied text before developers execute it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rfxlamia/pocketto/validate-plan
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pocketto, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,198 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 $0.00047 $0.03198
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.01279
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00640
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00320

Measured 7d ago against content hash 2c6cd065a429, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-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 7d 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/validate-plan/SKILL.md · 447 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 447 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Validate Plan

Overview

Comprehensive validation workflow for development implementation plans. This skill systematically analyzes plans against DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself), YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It), and TDD (Test-Driven Development) principles while performing codebase-aware gap analysis to prevent implementation disasters.

Use when:

  • Reviewing implementation plans created by the Pocket planning workflow or another source
  • Validating development plans before execution
  • Checking plans for DRY/YAGNI/TDD compliance
  • Preventing over-engineering and scope creep
  • Ensuring test-first approach in development workflow

Triggers: /validate-plan or "Validate this implementation plan"


Validation Workflow

Step 1: Plan Discovery

Accept either a plan file path or plan text supplied directly in the request. When invoked as a non-interactive reviewer (including the hotfix reviewer dispatch), use the supplied inline plan and do not ask questions or request a file path. If neither a path nor plan text is available in an interactive session, ask the user which plan to review.

For a file path:

  1. Load plan file
  2. Extract metadata: feature name, tech stack, hypothesis
  3. Identify all tasks and their structure

For inline plan text, perform the same analysis from the supplied content without looking for or editing a plan file.

Step 2: Codebase Analysis

Scan existing codebase for:

  • Existing implementations of similar functionality
  • Reusable components, utilities, patterns
  • Project structure and conventions
  • Test patterns and frameworks
  • Previous implementations that could be referenced

Key questions:

  • What functionality already exists that could be reused?
  • What patterns are established in the codebase?
  • Where should new files be placed?
  • What testing approach is already used?

Step 3: DRY Validation

Checklist for Don't Repeat Yourself:

Check Description Finding Level
Functionality Check Does the plan propose implementing functionality that already exists? CRITICAL
Code Reuse Are there existing utilities/components that could be reused? CRITICAL
Abstraction Does the plan duplicate similar patterns without abstraction? WARNING
Library Choice Is the plan using the same libraries already in the project? INFO

Read the full file on GitHub · 447 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 7d ago First seen · 447 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 2c6cd065a429

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validate-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository rfxlamia/pocketto (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 3,198 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 2026-10-10.

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