superplan-route

A routing guide for deciding whether Superplan should be used for a request and how much structure the work needs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose between a direct answer, one tracked task, context gathering, or deeper planning before execution.
Why use it?
It prevents simple, one-off requests from gaining unnecessary planning overhead while preserving tracking for work that benefits from it.

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/superplan-md/superplan-plugin/superplan-route
Any agent
npx skills add superplan-md/superplan-plugin --skill superplan-route
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/superplan-md/superplan-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,442 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 $0.00037 $0.02442
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01221
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00488
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00244

Measured 2d ago against content hash 40f3352d41e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

superplan-route 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.

output/skills/superplan-route/SKILL.md · 281 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 281 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Route Work

Overview

Decide whether Superplan should engage at all, and if it should, choose structure depth aggressively enough to preserve visibility, verification quality, and delegation boundaries.

This skill owns the should_superplan_engage? decision and the initial depth choice.

This skill routes only. It does not shape artifacts. It does not execute work.

Fast Routing Rule

Route quickly and get out of the way.

  • decide the lightest honest structure that preserves visibility and proof quality
  • once depth is clear, hand off immediately instead of lingering in routing
  • prefer a specific next owner over extra routing analysis

Trigger

Use when:

  • superplan-entry has decided Superplan should at least evaluate engagement
  • the request may need stay_out, direct, task, slice, program, or context-first routing
  • the main question is how much structure helps, not how the structure should be authored

Stay Out

Stay out when:

  • the correct action is a direct answer or explanation
  • no durable artifact, visibility benefit, or reusable context would help
  • the work is conversational, ephemeral, or one-shot
  • the request has already been satisfied without Superplan

If staying out:

  • answer directly
  • create no Superplan artifacts
  • do not route to superplan-shape

Inputs And Assumptions

Inputs:

  • user request
  • current repo and worktree state
  • current .superplan/ state if present
  • workspace context quality and freshness
  • whether the work looks greenfield, brownfield, or follow-on

Assumptions:

  • structure depth is a workflow choice, not a philosophical category
  • once Superplan engages, the burden of proof is on shallower structure for dense or multi-surface work
  • graph truth, task-contract truth, and runtime truth are distinct
  • context risk can outweigh depth risk in brownfield work
  • routing should usually be possible without CLI command-surface exploration

Routing Heuristic

Use this decision order:

  1. Ask whether Superplan should stay out entirely.
  2. If not, ask whether the work is truly one bounded executable unit or whether structure loss would hide important surfaces.
  3. Ask whether missing or stale context is the real blocker.
  4. Choose the shallowest depth that still preserves trust, visibility, verification quality, and correct downstream shaping.

Read the full file on GitHub · 281 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 · 281 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 40f3352d41e6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

superplan-route is a skill published in the GitHub repository superplan-md/superplan-plugin (72 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,442 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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