implementation-planning

A guide for turning an approved design or large requirement into an executable implementation plan. It breaks the work into small tasks with specific files, interfaces, tests, commands, checkpoints, and rollback steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a substantial feature, migration, refactor, or change spanning several parts of a codebase. It is not intended for a small, contained one-file edit.
Why use it?
It gives another developer enough detail to implement the work without rediscovering hidden assumptions. It also connects each requirement to a check and helps identify migration and compatibility risks before coding starts.

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/thiientv/godmode/implementation-planning
Any agent
npx skills add thiientv/godmode --skill implementation-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thiientv/godmode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 401 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 $0.00072 $0.00401
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00200
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00040

Measured 2d ago against content hash c2233083636c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

implementation-planning 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.

skills/implementation-planning/SKILL.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

Implementation Planning

Write for a capable engineer who does not know this repository or the hidden assumptions behind the request. A plan is useful only when another agent can execute it without reconstructing the design from hints.

Plan structure

Before listing tasks, record:

  • goal and user-visible outcome;
  • architecture and ownership boundaries;
  • constraints, compatibility promises, and non-goals;
  • files to create, modify, or delete;
  • test and evidence strategy;
  • rollback and migration safety.

Use plan-template.md for the complete skeleton.

Task rules

Break the work into thin, independently testable slices. Each task names:

  1. exact files and responsibilities;
  2. inputs, outputs, and interfaces consumed or produced;
  3. the failing or observable check first;
  4. the smallest implementation step;
  5. the focused command and expected result;
  6. the next checkpoint or integration dependency.

Prefer one behavior per task. Keep setup with the first deliverable that needs it. Do not create a task for speculative cleanup.

Plan quality gate

Before handing off:

  • trace every design requirement to a task;
  • search for placeholders such as TBD, TODO, or “add appropriate…”;
  • check names and types across task boundaries;
  • confirm commands exist in the repository;
  • identify what the plan cannot prove locally.

Hand the completed plan to plan-execution or subagent-driven-development. Do not claim the feature is implemented because the plan is complete.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 57 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A c2233083636c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

implementation-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository thiientv/godmode (93 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 401 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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