planning-execution

planning-execution is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from soden46/engineer-flow. It costs 23 tokens per session (303 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to turn an engineering goal into an ordered plan that another developer can follow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan feature work, fixes, migrations, or other changes that need concrete steps and verification.
Why use it?
It makes affected parts, dependencies, risks, checks, and rollout or rollback needs clear before coding starts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the engineer-flow plugin — 18 skills shipped together

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/soden46/engineer-flow/planning-execution
Any agent
npx skills add soden46/engineer-flow --skill planning-execution
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/soden46/engineer-flow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install engineer-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 303 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 $0.00023 $0.00303
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured 4d ago against content hash b4f901ed46e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planning-execution 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 4d 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/engineer-flow/core/planning-execution/SKILL.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

planning-execution

Use this skill when work should be planned before implementation.

Principles

A useful engineering plan identifies:

  • objective
  • affected components
  • ordered implementation steps
  • dependencies
  • risks
  • verification
  • rollout or rollback when relevant

Prefer concrete actions over vague statements.

Separate required work from optional improvements.

Keep scope aligned with the requested outcome.

For risky changes identify checkpoints where correctness can be verified before continuing.

Plans should be executable by another engineer without requiring hidden assumptions.

Adaptation

Use project evidence to determine the actual language, framework, runtime, and existing conventions.

When stack-specific implementation guidance is needed, prefer project evidence, native framework or language mechanisms, and relevant user-installed specialist skills. Technology-specific guidance must not redefine or weaken the core engineering requirement.

Absorbed Legacy Capability: planning

The following framework-agnostic knowledge was preserved from the previous Engineer Flow capability during consolidation.

Planning

Plan enough to move safely.

  • Identify objective, constraints, affected surfaces, and verification.
  • Sequence work in small reversible steps.
  • Keep at most one active implementation thread.
  • Re-plan when current code disproves assumptions.
  • Stop planning once execution is clear.
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. 4d ago First seen · 57 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A b4f901ed46e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

planning-execution is a skill published in the GitHub repository soden46/engineer-flow (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 303 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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