executing-plans

executing-plans is a skill for Claude Code from Vimalk0703/shipworthy. It costs 36 tokens per session (917 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step method for carrying out an engineering plan with tests written before implementation. TDD means test-driven development: write a failing test, then write code to make it pass.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for executing planned development tasks, verifying each step, and updating technical-debt records when shortcuts are taken.
Why use it?
It adds checkpoints that catch broken behavior, build errors, and departures from the intended architecture.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the shipworthy plugin — 66 skills, 7 commands, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for executing planned development tasks, verifying each step, and updating technical-debt records when shortcuts are taken.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vimalk0703/shipworthy/executing-plans
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Vimalk0703/shipworthy --skill executing-plans
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Vimalk0703/shipworthy

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shipworthy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 66 skills, 7 commands, 3 hooks.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 917 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 $0.00036 $0.00917
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00367
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00092

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 80963b873ddf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

executing-plans 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 1mo 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/planning/executing-plans/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Executing Plans

Execution Flow

For each task in the plan:

1. Announce

Tell the user which task you're starting and what files you'll touch. Mark the corresponding Task as in_progress using TaskUpdate.

2. Write the Test First

  • Write the failing test as specified in the plan
  • Run it — confirm it FAILS
  • If it passes without implementation, the test is wrong — fix it

3. Write the Implementation

  • Write the minimal code to make the test pass
  • Follow architecture.md constraints
  • No extra code beyond what the test requires

4. Verify

  • Run the test — confirm it PASSES
  • Run the full test suite — confirm nothing is broken
  • Run the build — confirm no type errors

5. Refactor (if needed)

  • Clean up without changing behavior
  • Re-run tests after refactoring

6. Mark Complete

  • Mark the corresponding Task as completed using TaskUpdate
  • Announce task completion with evidence (test output, build output)
  • Move to the next task

Critical Rules

Never Skip Verification

After implementing a task, you MUST run the verification command. Do not say "this should work" — prove it works.

Architecture Compliance Check

Before each task, re-read the relevant Mandatory Rules from architecture.md. If the task would violate a rule, STOP and discuss with the user rather than proceeding.

Handling Failures

  • If a test fails unexpectedly: invoke systematic-debugging — do NOT guess-fix
  • If 3+ attempts fail: stop and reassess — likely an architectural issue
  • If you need to take a shortcut: invoke tech-debt-tracking to document it

Handling Plan Deviations

  • If you discover the plan needs changes mid-execution:
    1. Stop executing
    2. Explain what changed and why
    3. Propose plan updates
    4. Get approval before resuming

Commit Cadence

  • Commit after each task (or group of tightly related tasks)
  • Commit message should reference the plan task number
  • Never batch all tasks into one giant commit

Rationalization Pressure Test

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 1mo ago First seen · 81 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 80963b873ddf

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executing-plans is a skill published in the GitHub repository Vimalk0703/shipworthy (6 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 917 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.