planning-structure

planning-structure is a skill for Claude Code from sflandergan/agentic-coding. It costs 34 tokens per session (721 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for organising implementation and review-fix plans into specification, summary, and task files. It defines file names, numbering, links, and the information each plan part must contain.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or checking a multi-task plan, including its directory layout, task slugs, file lists, dependencies, commands, expected results, and test-first details.
Why use it?
It prevents plans from becoming hard to follow because tasks are misnumbered, misplaced, or disconnected from their summary.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when creating or checking a multi-task plan, including its directory layout, task slugs, file lists, dependencies, commands, expected results, and test-first details.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sflandergan/agentic-coding/planning-structure
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add sflandergan/agentic-coding --skill planning-structure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sflandergan/agentic-coding

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 721 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 $0.00034 $0.00721
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00288
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00072

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1cdc5e0e8ba4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planning-structure 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 1mo 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.

core/agents/skills/planning-structure/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planning Structure

This skill defines the artifact layout for multi-task implementation and review-fix plans. It does not own workflow behavior, quality rules, or role orchestration.

Implementation Plan Layout

plans/<feature-dir>/
  spec.md
  plan.md
  tasks/
    01-<task-slug>.md
    02-<task-slug>.md

plan.md (summary index)

plan.md is the implementation entry point. It includes:

  • Standard plan header (Goal, Architecture, Tech Stack)
  • Docs used
  • Verification baseline
  • Ordered task overview table with columns: task number/title, objective, primary files touched, task-local verification, and a link to tasks/NN-<slug>.md

Each task summary in the index must link to its task file using a relative path: [tasks/01-<slug>.md](tasks/01-<slug>.md).

tasks/*.md (executable task files)

Each implementation task file contains the full executable task:

  • Task number and title
  • Objective (one sentence)
  • Exact files to create/modify/test with paths
  • Dependencies on prior tasks if any
  • Bite-sized checkbox steps with code, commands, and expected outcomes
  • TDD details for behavior changes (failing test, verify fail, implement, verify pass, commit)
  • Exact commands with expected outcomes
  • Intended commit message

Task files must be self-contained. An implementer reading only the task file must be able to execute the task without reading the surrounding plan, spec, or other task files unless the task explicitly requires additional context.

Numbering and slug rules

  • Task files use two-digit zero-padded numbers: 01-, 02-, ..., 99-.
  • Slugs are short kebab-case identifiers derived from the task title: create-planning-structure-skill, update-workflow-planning.
  • The number prefix and slug are separated by a hyphen: 01-create-planning-structure-skill.md.

Review-Fix Plan Layout

Review fixes are organized into immutable, numbered rounds under review-rounds/. Each round is a self-contained review-fix plan that can be implemented without reading earlier rounds.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 1mo ago First seen · 88 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 1cdc5e0e8ba4

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planning-structure is a skill published in the GitHub repository sflandergan/agentic-coding (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 721 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-13.

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