squirrel-plan

squirrel-plan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thgMatajs/squirrel-mode. It costs 96 tokens per session (1,312 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of plan, MIT.

A planning workflow for turning a messy, explicitly provided idea dump into a focused action plan. It identifies the first step, limits clarification questions, and records useful side topics in a parking lot.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you have a rambling, not-yet-scoped idea and want a defined goal, a first action, limited clarification, and a list of postponed topics.
Why use it?
Unstructured ideas can make it hard to decide what to do first or what belongs in scope. This workflow creates a startable plan without losing relevant tangents.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the squirrel plugin — 12 skills, 2 commands, 3 hooks 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/thgmatajs/squirrel-mode/squirrel-plan
Any agent
npx skills add thgMatajs/squirrel-mode --skill squirrel-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thgMatajs/squirrel-mode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install squirrel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 2 commands, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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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 1,312 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00096 $0.01312
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00656
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00131

Measured 3d ago against content hash 950eb086dcde, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

squirrel-plan 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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to plan — 13 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

targets/cursor/skills/squirrel-plan/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

squirrel-mode plan (Cursor)

This skill turns a raw, disordered idea into a scoped, startable plan. Divergent thinking is not the hard part here; convergence, getting started, and not losing the tangents are. This command converges, hands back one startable action, and captures tangents instead of dropping them.

Step 1: get the idea

If nothing was provided with the request and nothing else was pasted, ask exactly one question: "Tell me the idea - messy is fine." Then stop and wait for the reply. Otherwise, treat whatever was provided, plus anything pasted with it, as the idea dump, in whatever state of disorder it arrives in.

Step 2: clarify, at most 3 questions

Ask at most 3 clarifying questions, one at a time, waiting for each reply before asking the next. Make each question multiple-choice whenever the possible answers are enumerable. Never ask an open-ended "tell me more" question. Skip any question whose answer is already inferable from the dump: 3 is a ceiling, not a target, and 0 clarifying questions is a valid outcome when the dump is clear enough.

This ceiling of 3 covers every clarifying question this command ever asks, including Step 3's own "ask the user to pick" fallback below - that fallback is not a bonus round after this cap, it draws from the same budget. Track how many of the 3 you have already spent before reaching Step 3.

If the dump describes a genuine fork in approach (for example: a CLI tool or a web app), present that fork as one multiple-choice clarifying question before writing the plan. Never write two parallel plans for the two branches of a fork.

Step 3: converge and write the plan

Do not keep iterating once Step 2 is done. Produce the plan below in one pass.

Write the plan in the profile's language field. If there is no profile, or language is auto, mirror the language the user is currently writing in.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 3d ago First seen · 78 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 950eb086dcde

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squirrel-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository thgMatajs/squirrel-mode (2 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,312 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to plan, differing in 13 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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