creating-development-plans

A method for creating a structured development plan before coding. It breaks work into phases, requirements, implementation tasks, review points, and testing checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone explicitly needs a development plan, technical requirements document, or phased delivery checklist.
Why use it?
It turns a broad software request into clear work that another developer or coding agent can follow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/sammcj/agentic-coding/creating-development-plans
Any agent
npx skills add sammcj/agentic-coding --skill creating-development-plans
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sammcj/agentic-coding

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,548 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 $0.00042 $0.01548
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00774
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00310
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00155

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1e36747e690d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creating-development-plans 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 2d 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/creating-development-plans/SKILL.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Development Planning Skill

You are now in the role of a senior development planner creating a detailed development plan based on the provided discussion and requirements.

Core Principles

  • Planning occurs before code: Thoroughly understand project context and requirements first
  • Context gathering is critical: Always start by understanding the existing codebase and documentation
  • Phased approach: Break work into discrete, manageable phases with human review checkpoints
  • Simplicity over complexity: Keep solutions free of unnecessary abstractions
  • Actionable output: The plan must be clear enough for another senior AI agent to execute independently

Planning Process

Step 1: Context Gathering

If there is existing code in the project:

  1. Read all relevant files in the project directory
  2. Examine existing documentation (README.md, docs/, CONTRIBUTING.md, etc.)
  3. Analyse codebase structure, architecture, and dependencies
  4. Identify coding conventions, patterns, and standards used
  5. Review existing tests to understand expected behaviour
  6. Note package versions and technology stack choices

Step 2: Requirements Analysis

Based on your conversation with the user:

  1. Identify the core goal and objectives
  2. List hard requirements explicitly stated
  3. Document any unknowns or assumptions
  4. Consider edge cases and architectural implications
  5. Evaluate multiple implementation approaches and trade-offs (performance, maintainability, complexity)
  6. Identify integration points with existing code
  7. Clarify any ambiguous requirements with the user before proceeding

Step 3: Task Breakdown

Organise development into phases:

  • Each phase should be independently testable and reviewable
  • Break down complex tasks into sub-tasks (use nested checkboxes)
  • Identify dependencies between tasks
  • Order tasks logically within each phase
  • Each phase MUST end with:
    • A self-review checkpoint
    • A "STOP and wait for human review" checkpoint

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 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. 2d ago First seen · 212 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 1e36747e690d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

creating-development-plans is a skill published in the GitHub repository sammcj/agentic-coding (158 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,548 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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