plan-breakdown

plan-breakdown is a skill for Claude Code from rjroy/vibe-garden. It costs 58 tokens per session (463 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning skill that breaks a software plan into tasks with explicit completion checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Adding concrete work descriptions, validation criteria, reasons, and affected-file guidance to plans stored in `.lore/work/plans/`.
Why use it?
It makes each step verifiable before implementation begins, instead of leaving developers with broad instructions such as “run the tests.”

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the lore-development plugin — 12 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Adding concrete work descriptions, validation criteria, reasons, and affected-file guidance to plans stored in .lore/work/plans/.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add rjroy/vibe-garden
Claude Code
/plugin install lore-development

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lore-development, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 463 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 $0.00058 $0.00463
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00231
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00046

Measured 9d ago against content hash 42cd84e25e51, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-breakdown 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 9d 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.

lore-development/skills/plan-breakdown/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Plan Breakdown

A plan describes what to build. This skill adds what's missing: how do you know each step is done?

Invoke when a plan is complex enough that explicit validation at each step matters before handing off to implement. Simple plans don't need it — implement can work from the plan directly.

Input

Invoked as /plan-breakdown <path> where <path> is a plan in .lore/work/plans/. Read the plan and any spec it references.

What to Add

For each plan step, define:

  • What: concrete enough that an agent reading only this task knows what to build
  • Validation: specific criteria, not "run the tests" — "the CLI outputs X when called with Y", "Playwright confirms the button triggers Z", "unit test covers the rejection path"
  • Why: the requirement or goal this step satisfies, with a reference back to the source
  • Files: affected files (guidance, not a constraint)

Split a step only when it bundles genuinely different concerns with different validation needs. Resist over-decomposition — the value is the validation gates, not artificial granularity.

Save the task list. The saved files are the review vehicle.

Output

Save task files to .lore/work/tasks/<plan-name>/NNN-<task-name>.md. Load ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/frontmatter-schema.md for the frontmatter fields. Set status: pending and include a sequence frontmatter field for ordering.

Each task file body: What, Validation, Why, Files sections.

Write the body in Markdown per the "Body Format" section of ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/frontmatter-schema.md. Reach for embedded inline HTML only when a visual carries meaning prose can't, such as a color-coded status badge or a diagram a reviewing agent needs at a glance.

Stop here. The user invokes /implement when ready.

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. 9d ago First seen · 37 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 42cd84e25e51

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plan-breakdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository rjroy/vibe-garden (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 463 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 2026-08-31.

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