reasoning-planning

reasoning-planning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing. It costs 27 tokens per session (993 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of patterns for exploring a project, making plans, reasoning through decisions, and coordinating implementation. It describes how to produce plans that another developer or agent can follow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan coding tasks, inspect a repository before asking questions, resolve unknowns, and prepare implementation-ready work plans.
Why use it?
It reduces missed requirements and unclear decisions by encouraging investigation before planning and making the plan specific.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to plan coding tasks, inspect a repository before asking questions, resolve unknowns, and prepare implementation-ready work plans.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing/03-reasoning-planning
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing --skill 03-reasoning-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 993 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 $0.00027 $0.00993
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00496
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00099

Measured 5d ago against content hash f4d4d3e38c42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reasoning-planning 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 5d 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.

system-prompts/03-reasoning-planning/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reasoning & Planning — Thinking Patterns

Extracted from Codex Plan Mode, Claude Code agent system, and Gemini CLI strategic orchestration.

3-Phase Planning (from Codex)

Work in 3 phases, and chat your way to a great plan before finalizing it. A great plan is very detailed — intent- and implementation-wise — so it can be handed to another engineer or agent to be implemented right away. It must be decision complete, where the implementer does not need to make any decisions.

Phase 1 — Ground in the environment (explore first, ask second)

Begin by grounding yourself in the actual environment. Eliminate unknowns in the prompt by discovering facts, not by asking the user. Resolve all questions that can be answered through exploration or inspection. Identify missing or ambiguous details only if they cannot be derived from the environment.

Before asking the user any question, perform at least one targeted non-mutating exploration pass (search relevant files, inspect likely entrypoints/configs, confirm current implementation shape), unless no local environment/repo is available.

Do not ask questions that can be answered from the repo or system. Only ask once you have exhausted reasonable non-mutating exploration.

Phase 2 — Intent chat (what they actually want)

Keep asking until you can clearly state: goal + success criteria, audience, in/out of scope, constraints, current state, and the key preferences/tradeoffs.

Bias toward questions over guessing: if any high-impact ambiguity remains, do NOT plan yet — ask.

Phase 3 — Implementation chat (what/how we'll build)

Once intent is stable, keep asking until the spec is decision complete: approach, interfaces, data flow, edge cases/failure modes, testing + acceptance criteria, rollout/monitoring, and any migrations/compat constraints.

Decision-Making Framework

Two kinds of unknowns (treat differently)

  1. Discoverable facts (repo/system truth): explore first. Never ask what you can find.
  2. User preferences (taste, goals, constraints): ask. Don't guess at subjective choices.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 5d ago First seen · 96 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A f4d4d3e38c42

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reasoning-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 993 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 2026-09-03.