create-roadmap

A project-level plan that sequences major initiatives into Now, Next, and Later time horizons.

In plain words
What is it for?
It connects initiatives to project goals, shows what is committed or exploratory, and guides decisions about what to build next.
Why use it?
It provides a shared view of priorities and dependencies instead of ranking every issue separately.

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/tomzx/agents/create-roadmap
Any agent
npx skills add tomzx/agents --skill create-roadmap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomzx/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,866 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 $0.00032 $0.01866
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00933
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00187

Measured 2d ago against content hash ceffe74aabea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-roadmap 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/create-roadmap/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Roadmap

Defines the project's roadmap as a single context-level artifact: the initiatives the project is betting on, sequenced across horizons (Now / Next / Later) and tied to the objectives in goals.md.

Other skills consult the roadmap when deciding what to work on next. Without a roadmap, prioritization is ad hoc: every issue is ranked in isolation, sequencing constraints are invisible, and there is no shared view of what is committed versus exploratory. A plan (plan.md) describes how to build one feature; the roadmap describes what to build and in what order across the whole project.

Prerequisites

  • Apply the shared SDLC conventions in skills/sdlc/references/shared.md.
  • .sdlc/context/project-overview.md (must exist, for purpose and scope).
  • .sdlc/context/goals.md (strongly recommended; every initiative aligns to an objective and key result. If absent, note that alignment cannot be checked and flag it as an open question).
  • .sdlc/context/roadmap.md (optional; if present, revise rather than replace, per Revision Mode below).
  • Existing features under .sdlc/features/ and the open issue backlog (optional, to roll up into initiatives and detect orphaned work).

Steps

  1. Read .sdlc/context/project-overview.md for purpose, scope, and stakeholders.
  2. Read .sdlc/context/goals.md if present; these objectives anchor every initiative. Read .sdlc/context/service-levels.md if present, for reliability constraints that bound what can be committed to Now.
  3. Inventory in-flight and planned work: scan .sdlc/features/ and, if the backlog is in GitHub, list open issues with ghx issue list --state open.
  4. Confirm the horizon model with the user if not already stated: prefer Now / Next / Later (the default) over date-based quarters, because horizons avoid the false precision of dates. Note the current period.
  5. Identify the recurring themes for this period, each tied to a goals.md objective.
  6. Group work into initiatives (a coherent bet that moves a metric), not individual tickets. For each initiative capture the objective it advances, an owner, the hypothesis, scope, dependencies, confidence, and a success signal tied to a key result or KPI.
  7. Place each initiative in the right horizon:
    • Now: committed, in-flight, or starting this horizon. Fully scoped.
    • Next: planned for the following horizon. Roughly scoped.
    • Later: exploratory, hypothesis-level, low confidence.
  8. Map sequencing and dependencies between initiatives (hard, soft, external), and render a Mermaid Gantt chart in the Timeline section visualizing the initiatives across the horizons, anchored to the current period. Use the horizons as section groups, approximate spans (not hard dates), and after <id> to show dependencies.
  9. State Not Now explicitly: deferred work and the condition that would promote it.
  10. Record capacity and hard constraints if known (team capacity, regulatory deadlines, frozen periods).
  11. Set a review cadence and today's date.
  12. Write the output to .sdlc/context/roadmap.md. If it already exists, revise per Revision Mode.

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 2d ago First seen · 106 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A ceffe74aabea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-roadmap is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomzx/agents (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,866 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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