shep: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/shep-kit-plan/SKILL.md

shep-kit:plan is a skill for Claude Code from shep-ai/shep. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,768 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning step that turns a researched feature specification into an architecture outline and a list of implementation tasks. It requires the research questions to be resolved first.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after technical research to review requirements, constraints, dependencies, data flow, and integration points, then create a task breakdown.
Why use it?
It prevents coding from starting while important technical decisions are still unanswered. It also gives the team a shared view of the design and work involved.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

This is shep-ai/shep's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on shep itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything shep configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to shep-ai/shep. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shep-ai/shep/main/.claude/skills/shep-kit-plan/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shep-ai/shep

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,768 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 $0.00066 $0.01768
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00884
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00354
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00177

Measured 9d ago against content hash 225865429bc0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shep-kit: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 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.

.claude/skills/shep-kit-plan/SKILL.md · 220 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 220 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Implementation Plan

Generate a detailed implementation plan with architecture overview and task breakdown.

Full workflow guide: docs/development/spec-driven-workflow.md

Prerequisites

  • Feature spec exists at specs/NNN-feature-name/spec.yaml
  • Research completed at specs/NNN-feature-name/research.yaml
  • On the feature branch feat/NNN-feature-name

GATE CHECK (Mandatory)

Before starting planning, verify:

  1. Read research.yaml and check the openQuestions field
  2. If any items have resolved: false: STOP and inform user:

    Cannot proceed with planning. Open questions in research.yaml must be resolved first. Please complete research or mark questions as resolved.

  3. Only proceed when all open questions have resolved: true or the openQuestions array is empty

Workflow

1. Review Spec & Research

Read both YAML source files to understand:

  • Requirements and success criteria (spec.yaml)
  • Technical decisions and constraints (research.yaml)
  • Affected areas and dependencies

2. Design Architecture

Create high-level architecture:

  • Component diagram (ASCII or Mermaid)
  • Data flow between components
  • Integration points with existing code

3. Define Implementation Phases (MANDATORY TDD STRUCTURE)

CRITICAL: Plans MUST follow Test-Driven Development (TDD) with RED-GREEN-REFACTOR cycles.

Break implementation into phases following TDD:

  • Foundational phases (no tests): Build pipeline, TypeSpec models, configuration
  • TDD Cycle phases: For each layer (Domain, Application, Infrastructure):
    • RED: Write failing tests first
    • GREEN: Write minimal code to pass tests
    • REFACTOR: Clean up while keeping tests green
  • Each phase should be independently testable
  • Order by dependencies (foundational first)
  • Identify parallelizable work

4. Identify Files to Create/Modify

For each phase, list:

  • New files: Path and purpose
  • Modified files: Path and changes needed

Read the full file on GitHub · 220 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 220 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 225865429bc0

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shep-kit:plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository shep-ai/shep (248 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,768 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 2026-08-30.

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