prep-plan

prep-plan is a skill for Claude Code from rjroy/vibe-garden. It costs 69 tokens per session (480 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning a specification, design, research, brainstorm, or clear request into a written implementation plan. The plan is saved for review before coding begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research the existing codebase, identify open questions, order implementation work, assign specialist tasks, and prepare a reviewable plan.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear requirements and assumptions early, so implementation can proceed from an agreed set of steps.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions subagents.

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 Use it to research the existing codebase, identify open questions, order implementation work, assign specialist tasks, and prepare a reviewable plan.

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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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README.md
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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 480 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 $0.00069 $0.00480
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00240
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00048

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1af8a07c6705, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prep-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 8d 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/prep-plan/SKILL.md · 29 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 29 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prep Plan

Build an implementation plan the user can review and approve before any code is written. The plan is the output. Implementation is a separate step via /implement.

Do not use EnterPlanMode. This skill authors a document, not a precursor to immediate code changes.

Process

Gather context. Invoke the lore-researcher agent via Task tool with the topic description — wait for the result. Read any relevant lore artifacts (spec, design, brainstorm, research). Explore the codebase with an Explore subagent to understand what exists and where changes will land.

Surface gaps before drafting. If the input has ambiguous requirements, contradictions, or unstated assumptions that would force guesses, list them and ask the user to resolve them first. A plan built on unreviewed assumptions fails during implementation.

Draft collaboratively. Map the goal or requirements to concrete implementation steps. Order by dependency. Flag steps that need specialized expertise. Include a final validation step that checks the implementation against the source artifact.

Save. The saved file is the review vehicle — don't present the plan in chat before saving.

Fresh-eyes review. After saving, invoke the plan-reviewer agent via Task tool on the saved plan. Present findings and offer to address issues before implementation begins.

Saving

Save to .lore/work/plans/[feature-name].md using kebab-case. Load ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/frontmatter-schema.md for the frontmatter fields. The document body is freeform — what matters is that steps are concrete (files, functions, changes) and the source artifact or goal is clearly referenced so validation has something to check against.

Write the body Markdown-first per the "Body Format" section of ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/frontmatter-schema.md. Reach for embedded inline HTML when the step flow needs it — a visual step sequence with dependency indicators, and validation gates distinguished visually from the step description.

Read the full file on GitHub · 29 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. 8d ago First seen · 29 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 1af8a07c6705

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prep-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository rjroy/vibe-garden (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 480 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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