plan-definition

plan-definition is a skill for Cursor from theam/claude-dev-kit. It costs 96 tokens per session (2,889 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided discovery skill that turns a rough idea into an approved product definition. It explores the problem, users, outcome, measures, constraints, non-goals, and possible directions before backlog work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to frame and scope a product idea, compare solution options, and produce the definition document that feeds backlog planning.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from creating tickets before agreeing what problem they are solving and why. The product owner makes the decisions rather than the skill.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: shipped in a Cursor plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the fullstack-dev-kit plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to frame and scope a product idea, compare solution options, and produce the definition document that feeds backlog planning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/theam/claude-dev-kit/plan-definition
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.

Any agent
npx skills add theam/claude-dev-kit --skill plan-definition
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/theam/claude-dev-kit

Made for: Cursor.

Or install fullstack-dev-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,889 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 $0.00096 $0.02889
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.01156
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00578
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00289

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2c8e99e60be4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-29, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-definition 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 6d 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.

plugins/fullstack-dev-kit/skills/plan-definition/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan Definition

Turn a spark into a clear product definition through a guided discovery phase — the most upstream step of the workflow, for the product-owner persona. It runs before plan-backlog and closes the loop define → backlog → ticket → PR.

plan-backlog starts from a defined problem and turns it into a backlog; its framing step is deliberately light ("how do we slice this"). plan-definition does the deep part: defining the problem itself — who it's for, the outcome, why now, the constraints, the success metrics, the chosen direction. Its output is a definition doc, not a backlog and not tickets. You facilitate the PO's thinking — ask, offer options, and let them decide; never decide the product for them.

Trigger

A request to define, frame, scope, or think through a product idea before there are stories — e.g. "help me define this feature", "I have a rough idea, let's shape it", "what's the problem we're solving here". If the request is already a defined problem asking for tickets, that's plan-backlog, not this.

Boundary with plan-backlog (important)

  • plan-definition = define the problem & direction. No backlog, no tickets. Output: a product definition.
  • plan-backlog = turn a defined problem into a backlog. When a definition from here is handed in, it consumes it and runs a lighter framing (confirm, don't re-derive) instead of framing from scratch.

1. Intake — read the spark in whatever form it arrives

The input is deliberately vaguer than plan-backlog's — a one-liner is a valid start.

  • Pasted text / chat description → use directly.
  • PDF → read it (page range as needed).
  • Word (.docx) → convert first (textutil -convert txt file.docx -output - on macOS, or pandoc file.docx -t markdown), then read. If neither tool is available, ask the user to paste the text or export a PDF.
  • Artifact / Confluence page / URL → fetch it.
  • Figma link (figma.com/(design|file)/…) → run figma-fetch for design context. For a FigJam board, figma-fetch doesn't read /board/ URLs yet — ask the PO to paste the board's content as text. v1 treats any whiteboard as read-only context; nothing is written back to it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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. 6d ago First seen · 112 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 2c8e99e60be4

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plan-definition is a skill published in the GitHub repository theam/claude-dev-kit (14 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 2,889 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-24.

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