discovery-planning

discovery-planning is a skill for Claude Code from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills. It costs 92 tokens per session (5,120 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided planning session that helps define what an app or other project should achieve before building starts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and approve a Discovery Plan for a new product, feature, or project.
Why use it?
It prevents development from beginning with unclear goals or unapproved requirements.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the exploration-cycle-plugin plugin — 20 skills, 15 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create and approve a Discovery Plan for a new product, feature, or project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/discovery-planning
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 richfrem/agent-plugins-skills --skill discovery-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install exploration-cycle-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 15 agents.

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 discovery-planning

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/discovery-planning.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/discovery-planning)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/discovery-planning"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/discovery-planning.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,120 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00092 $0.05120
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.02560
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.01024
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00512

Measured 4d ago against content hash a53694071296, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discovery-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 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.

plugins/exploration-cycle-plugin/skills/discovery-planning/SKILL.md · 425 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 425 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architectural patterns adapted from obra/superpowers (MIT) https://github.com/obra/superpowers

Dashboard Intercept

Before doing anything else, silently check for exploration/exploration-dashboard.md.

  • If the file EXISTS:
    • Read the file and check the status. If status is Complete, proceed standalone.
    • If status is In Progress or TBD:
      • Check for the presence of the <ORCHESTRATOR_DISPATCH> tag in the immediate context.
      • If the tag is PRESENT:
        • Extract and verify the authorized_skill, phase_number, and expected_output attributes from the <ORCHESTRATOR_DISPATCH> tag.
        • If authorized_skill matches "discovery-planning" AND phase_number matches the dashboard phase:
          • Proceed with this skill's logic. (You are authorized by the orchestrator).
          • Note: The orchestrator manages dispatch token lifecycle. This tag is valid for the current phase only — it becomes stale once the orchestrator advances the dashboard in Block 6.
        • If verification fails (mismatched name or stale phase):
          • Stop immediately. Announce: "Orchestrator dispatch verification failed. Returning to dashboard."
          • Return control. Invoke skill: exploration-workflow. Stop generating output.
      • If the tag is ABSENT or malformed:
        • Stop immediately. Do not continue.
        • Announce: "It looks like you have an active Exploration Session. Let me take you back to your session dashboard."
        • Return control to the orchestrator. Invoke skill: exploration-workflow. Stop generating output from this skill.
  • If the file DOES NOT exist: Proceed standalone.

Read the full file on GitHub · 425 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. 4d ago First seen · 425 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A a53694071296

Subscribe to this mod's changes

discovery-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository richfrem/agent-plugins-skills (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 5,120 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.