ultraplan

ultraplan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from theagenticguy/erpaval. It costs 101 tokens per session (776 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning workflow that creates three independent implementation plans and combines them into one. The plans use architectural, speed-first, and simple-first viewpoints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for complex engineering problems that need an implementation plan. It produces one consolidated plan for the user to follow.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that one initial approach shapes the entire plan without comparison. A critic highlights agreement and explains important differences.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the erpaval plugin — 11 skills, 1 agent, 3 hooks, 5 MCP servers 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/theagenticguy/erpaval/ultraplan
Any agent
npx skills add theagenticguy/erpaval --skill ultraplan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/theagenticguy/erpaval

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install erpaval, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 1 agent, 3 hooks, 5 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 776 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 $0.00101 $0.00776
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00388
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00078

Measured 5d ago against content hash e619817938f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ultraplan 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.

skills/ultraplan/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Contents

Reference When to load
references/orchestrator.md Running /ultraplan <problem> — the 5-phase flow
references/divergence-vectors.md The three explorer biases and their motivation
references/write-protocol.md Copy verbatim into every explorer prompt
templates/explorer-skeleton.md Per-explorer plan skeleton
templates/plan-skeleton.md Final composed plan skeleton

Ultraplan

Generator-critic planning, file-coordinated. Three Opus 4.7 explorers plan the same problem in parallel, each biased toward a different axis — architectural, speed-first, simple-first. A critic reads all three and composes a final plan that cherry-picks the best decision from each, with attribution. The user gets one clean plan.md to execute against.

Beats single-agent planning on two axes:

  • No anchoring. A single agent commits to the first approach it reaches and defends it through the rest of the plan. Three independent explorers reach genuinely different conclusions, and the critic picks per-decision.
  • Calibrated confidence. When all three converge, the approach is sound. When they diverge, the critic names the tradeoff explicitly.

How it works

Read references/orchestrator.md and follow its phases. Short version:

  1. Intake — parse the problem. One targeted AskUserQuestion only if scope is genuinely ambiguous; otherwise proceed.
  2. Skeletons — create planning/{slug}/ with three explorer files and a plan.md shell.
  3. Launch — three general-purpose Opus 4.7 Agents in parallel, run_in_background: true, each with a distinct divergence vector from references/divergence-vectors.md. Orchestrator does not read the codebase; explorers do.
  4. Monitor — escalating check-ins (30s → 2m → 5m). wc -l on explorer files; stuck detection via line-count delta; launch a fresh Agent with "resume from section N" context on stall.
  5. Critic synthesis — one foreground general-purpose Opus 4.7 Agent reads all three explorer files and writes plan.md — chosen approach, per-decision attribution, explicit tradeoffs, step-by-step order, verification criteria.

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 5d ago First seen · 53 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A e619817938f8

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ultraplan is a skill published in the GitHub repository theagenticguy/erpaval (28 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 776 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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