pane-driven-development

pane-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from transparent-pegasus/herdrpowers. It costs 24 tokens per session (12,058 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A development workflow for implementing a plan by assigning independent tasks to separate workspace panes, or side-by-side agent sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to split an implementation plan into independent tasks, delegate them to sibling panes, and coordinate their completion and review.
Why use it?
It keeps parallel tasks isolated and gives each task a fresh context, which can make larger implementation plans easier to coordinate.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the herdrpowers plugin — 16 skills, 7 commands 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/transparent-pegasus/herdrpowers/pane-driven-development
Any agent
npx skills add transparent-pegasus/herdrpowers --skill pane-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/transparent-pegasus/herdrpowers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install herdrpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 7 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for pane-driven-development

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/transparent-pegasus/herdrpowers/pane-driven-development.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/transparent-pegasus/herdrpowers/pane-driven-development)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/transparent-pegasus/herdrpowers/pane-driven-development"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/transparent-pegasus/herdrpowers/pane-driven-development.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 12,058 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00024 $0.12058
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.06029
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.02412
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.01206

Measured 4d ago against content hash d9f4f41173cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

pane-driven-development scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

delete this plan's workspace (`rm -rf <workspace>`) — the git history is
skills/pane-driven-development/SKILL.md · 810 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 810 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pane-Driven Development

Placeholder resolution: <KEY> placeholders in this file (such as <BASE_BRANCH> or <REPORT_DIRECTORY>) resolve from the Herdrpowers Configuration section of the repository's CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md. If that section is missing, initialize it with the pack's init workflow (/herdrpowers:init on Claude Code plugin installs; commands/init.md otherwise).

Delegation Model (READ FIRST)

Every task in this skill is delegated to a herdr sibling agent pane, never to an in-process subagent — the sole exception is a review task whose resolved mode is orchestrator, which the orchestrator runs in a fresh spawned subagent. The orchestration skill decides which role takes a task; using-herdr-sibling-panes is the transport that submits it and waits for the completion marker. Read both before delegating anything.

Two boundaries override anything below:

  • No in-process subagents. Wherever this document says "dispatch," read "delegate to an idle sibling pane through using-herdr-sibling-panes." Named subagent types are not used by this pack, and the Agent tool is dispatched only for a review task whose resolved mode is orchestrator, per "Reviews in mode: orchestrator" in orchestration.
  • The pane that writes tests owns RED-GREEN-REFACTOR, and the resolved test-authoring / fix-round-test-authoring assignments say which pane that is. With mode: delegate a separate pane writes them from the task brief alone (see "Parallel test authoring" below); with mode: implementer the implementing or fixing pane writes its own per test-driven-development. Either way the pane that writes a test produces its RED evidence, and your report names which pane wrote the tests. Review independence itself comes from the reset session of each reviewing delegation, not from a named role or a different pane ID, and is never configurable.

Execute the plan by delegating a fresh implementer pane per task, the task's tests per test-authoring, a task review (spec compliance + code quality) after each, and a broad whole-branch review at the end.

Read the full file on GitHub · 810 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 4d ago First seen · 810 lines · 24 tokens per session scan C d9f4f41173cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pane-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository transparent-pegasus/herdrpowers (11 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 12,058 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

plannotator-tui

Open a Markdown plan or document for the human to review and annotate in a Herdr pane; their feedback arrives as your next message. Use when you have written a plan, spec, or design document that needs human review before you act on it.

plannotator/herdr-annotate · 56 tokens

compound-v

Use when superpowers:brainstorming is about to begin (pre-brainstorm recon), OR has produced a spec, OR when superpowers:writing-plans has produced a plan, OR when about to invoke superpowers:subagent-driven-development or superpowers:executing-plans. Sidekick that intercepts these four Superpowers transitions — runs…

procoders/superpowers-v · 103 tokens

backend-launcher

Use when Compound V's dispatcher needs to run one file-scoped job on a chosen backend (Claude subagent, headless Codex worker, headless Antigravity worker, headless Cursor worker, headless Devin worker, or headless opencode worker) and get back a canonical jobresult. The single jobspec → jobresult contract every…

procoders/superpowers-v · 91 tokens

subagent-driven-development

Use when executing implementation plans with independent tasks in the current session.

DollarDill/beads-superpowers · 17 tokens

write-documentation

Use when writing or substantially rewriting human-facing prose: documentation, README, guides, blog posts, emails, Slack messages, PR descriptions, release notes, or any text a human will read. Not for code comments, commit messages, or agent-to-agent communication.

DollarDill/beads-superpowers · 56 tokens

research-driven-development

Use when the user asks a question about a topic, requests research, or when understanding something is needed before planning. Triggers on "research this", "what is X", "how does Y work", "compare A vs B", "investigate", "deep dive", "look into".

DollarDill/beads-superpowers · 63 tokens