iterative:tech-planning

iterative:tech-planning is a skill for Claude Code from tmchow/tmc-marketplace. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,545 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning workflow that turns software requirements or a product requirements document into an implementation checklist with dependencies, file paths, and test scenarios.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a technical plan after requirements are clear, or to formalize an existing set of requirements into executable subtasks.
Why use it?
It gives an implementer enough context about what to build and where to change the code, reducing guesswork before coding begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the iterative-engineering plugin — 12 skills, 18 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a technical plan after requirements are clear, or to formalize an existing set of requirements into executable subtasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tmchow/tmc-marketplace/tech-planning
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 tmchow/tmc-marketplace --skill tech-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tmchow/tmc-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install iterative-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 18 agents.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,545 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 $0.00053 $0.02545
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01273
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00509
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00254

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5ea233c679d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

iterative:tech-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 9d 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/iterative-engineering/skills/tech-planning/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Technical Plan

Turn a PRD or set of requirements into a structured, executable implementation plan. Write as if the implementer has zero context for the codebase — document the decisions, the reasoning, and enough detail that they can start working without asking clarifying questions.

The plan captures WHAT to build and WHERE. The implementer writes the actual code.

When to Use

  • After iterative:brainstorming skill is complete
  • When clear requirements exist and need an implementation plan
  • Can be invoked standalone with existing requirements

If requirements are vague and no PRD exists, offer to start with iterative:brainstorming skill first.

Note on scope: Quick scope skips tech-planning entirely — the user implements directly from the brainstorming conversation. Standard scope may also skip tech-planning if the user chooses to implement directly from brainstorming's summary; tech-planning is invoked only when the user explicitly opts in. Full scope always uses tech-planning. Adapt plan depth to scope: a Standard-scope task doesn't need 5 parent tasks with 3 subtasks each — a flat checklist of 3-5 steps is sufficient. Full scope uses the complete structured plan format. Tech-planning is where the HOW lives — file paths, architecture decisions, implementation steps, test scenarios. This complements brainstorming's WHAT (requirements, scope, decisions).

Key Principles

  1. Understand before structuring — Explore the codebase and ask questions before writing the plan
  2. Decisions, not code — Capture architecture choices, query strategies, component boundaries, trade-offs. Leave method names, signatures, and implementation code to the implementer
  3. Concrete test scenarios — Specific inputs, expected outputs, edge cases to cover. Not full test code, not "test that it works"
  4. Test files are explicit — Every feature subtask must include the test file path in its **Files:** field. Test scenarios without a target test file get skipped during implementation
  5. Right-sized subtasks — Scoped to a single atomic commit, typically touching 2-3 files. Not too big (5+ files, multiple unrelated changes), not too small (single line, no meaningful test)
  6. Dependencies clear — Explicit ordering of what depends on what
  7. Verification built-in — Each subtask has a way to confirm it works

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 136 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 5ea233c679d8

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iterative:tech-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmchow/tmc-marketplace (22 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,545 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 2026-08-30.

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