plan-guide

A planning skill for designing a step-by-step developer guide that teaches concepts while helping someone build a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to interview the audience, plan milestones, and save the resulting plan in guide/PLAN.md.
Why use it?
It turns a short idea into an ordered learning path matched to the intended audience before the guide is written.

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/tomthebearded/guide-forge/plan-guide
Any agent
npx skills add tomthebearded/guide-forge --skill plan-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomthebearded/guide-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 135 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 513 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 $0.00135 $0.00513
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.00257
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00051

Measured 2d ago against content hash b6983eef5b07, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-guide 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/plan-guide/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Skill: plan-guide

The complete, canonical contract for this skill is the paste-prompt it wraps, inlined here — follow it in full:

!cat "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/prompt.md"

(If the block above came back empty or errored, read prompt.md in this skill folder — it sits beside this SKILL.md — and follow that.)

As you follow it, adapt for the fact that you're a Claude Code skill, not a pasted prompt:

  • You're already invoked — skip its "How to use / paste this" preamble and its {{IDEA}} placeholder. The idea is $ARGUMENTS below (plus any attached files, repo path, or link).
  • The deliverable is the plan — produce it inline as your reply and, once you've settled it, write it to guide/PLAN.md (creating the guide/ folder). That single file is the only thing you write now — do not scaffold README.md, foundation/, milestones, or any other guide content yet; that's /scaffold-guide's job after approval.
  • Where the prompt hands off to another prompt by name (e.g. draft-milestone), use the sibling skill of the same name instead (/draft-milestone).

The idea:

$ARGUMENTS

Gate: run the Phase 0 interview and stop and wait for answers before producing any plan (unless the user said "no questions"); then stop again for plan approval before any drafting.

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 · 40 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A b6983eef5b07

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plan-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomthebearded/guide-forge (3 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 135 tokens to every session and 513 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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