process

A project-planning method for turning research and design decisions into an initial implementation plan. It defines which documents and tools hold the official version of each decision and how work is divided into milestones.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or maintain a product requirements document, plan design and development work, assign milestone types, and keep project records consistent.
Why use it?
It reduces confusion about where requirements belong, what has been decided, and what needs to be built next.

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/techtankto/techtank-site/process
Any agent
npx skills add techtankto/techtank-site --skill process
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/techtankto/techtank-site

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,838 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 $0.00057 $0.01838
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00919
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00368
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00184

Measured 2d ago against content hash bedbc990f108, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

process 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.

.agents/skills/process/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Process

How work is planned and initially built: the sources of truth, how they stay honest with each other, and how milestones are cut and delivered. This skill is the methodology layer and stays project-agnostic; a project's PRD and plan derive their structure from it.

The working loop

Front-loaded on distillation and direction before any build:

Gather inspiration → distill the essence → set direction → design → plan implementation → deliver.

The brief and observations stages of the PRD (§The PRD) are the path toward the design: gathering, distillation, and direction-setting. The design file is the designed solution that path produces, transcribed into the design contract. Planning the implementation lays out the milestone graph (§Milestones) from the PRD and the design.

The PRD

Locate the PRD folder before writing to it. Don't assume a path exists: check the repo for an existing PRD or docs location first; if one exists but isn't obvious, ask the user where it lives. If none exists, create docs/prd/. The PRD lives inside the repo it governs, never in an external notes system: it's canonical, versioned material (§Division of truth), not a side note.

The PRD folder is the numbered product pipeline, read in order; each stage derives from the ones before it:

Stage Owns
01-brief.md The distilled intent: what it is, who it's for, the aesthetic, references
02-observations.md Research and risks, each paired with the direction taken
03-solution.md The settled design at concept level: concept, surfaces, systems
04-design.md The design-token contract, transcribed from the design file
05-architecture.md Stack, information architecture, repo structure, data layer
06-plan.md The plan: the milestone graph (kinds, dependencies), cut from the stages above

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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 · 148 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A bedbc990f108

Subscribe to this mod's changes

process is a skill published in the GitHub repository techtankto/techtank-site (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,838 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 2026-08-31.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

systematic-debugging

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes.

obra/superpowers · 21 tokens

brainstorming

You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.

obra/superpowers · 37 tokens

auto-perf-optimize

Run agent-driven VS Code performance or memory investigations. Use when asked to launch Code OSS, automate a VS Code scenario, run the Chat memory smoke runner, capture renderer heap snapshots, take workflow screenshots, compare run summaries, or drive a repeatable scenario before heap-snapshot analysis.

microsoft/vscode · 62 tokens

chat-perf

Run chat perf benchmarks and memory leak checks against the local dev build or any published VS Code version. Use when investigating chat rendering regressions, validating perf-sensitive changes to chat UI, or checking for memory leaks in the chat response pipeline.

microsoft/vscode · 51 tokens

chat-pet-sprite-creation

Use when creating or changing VS Code chat pet sprite art, sprite sheets, state animations, eye treatments, Stable/Insiders variants, or pet transitions under src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/widget/media/chatPet.

microsoft/vscode · 53 tokens

cpu-profile-analysis

Analyze V8/Chrome CPU profiles (.cpuprofile) and DevTools trace files (Trace-.json). Use when: profiling performance, investigating slow functions, comparing code paths, finding bottlenecks, analyzing timeToRequest, understanding call trees from sampling profiler data, analyzing layout/paint/rendering, investigating…

microsoft/vscode · 71 tokens