planning

A planning tool that turns a software task into a documented implementation plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for roadmaps, specifications, migrations, API changes, performance-sensitive work, and other multi-step tasks.
Why use it?
It helps clarify requirements, decisions, dependencies, current behavior, tests, and acceptance conditions before coding.

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/xiaolai/vmark/planning
Any agent
npx skills add xiaolai/vmark --skill planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiaolai/vmark

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,193 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 $0.00038 $0.01193
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00596
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00119

Measured 2d ago against content hash eaa5bbe9faa4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

.claude/skills/planning/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planning Skill

When to use

Use this skill when the user asks for planning, a roadmap, a spec-to-implementation breakdown, or wants decisions documented.

Modes

Choose the lightest mode that meets the request.

quick-plan

Use when:

  • task is small/medium and non-breaking
  • no migrations and no multi-phase rollout

Output:

  • 3–8 Work Items (WI-###), each with tests + acceptance

full-plan (default)

Use when:

  • migrations/persistence changes
  • API/contract changes (public tools, schemas, SDKs)
  • multi-phase roadmaps
  • performance-sensitive work

Output:

  • structured plan sections (see “Plan file template”)

Process

  1. Clarify outcomes

    • Restate desired behaviors and constraints.
    • Identify ambiguities and propose defaults if the user doesn’t decide.
    • Capture constraints & dependencies (runtime versions, OS, external services, feature flags, required tools).
    • Capture gaps: list requirement/behavior gaps or missing decisions revealed here.
  2. Inventory current behavior

    • Trace entry points → state/store → side effects → persistence.
    • List key files/modules and the invariants they rely on.
    • Note ownership/priority rules (windows, workspaces, files).
    • Capture gaps: list where current behavior diverges from the stated outcomes.
  3. Define target rules

    • Convert outcomes into explicit rules and precedence.
    • For each rule, include: trigger/context, expected behavior, scope, constraints, and exclusions.
    • Edge-case pass: cover empty/none, invalid/malformed, boundary sizes, conflicting state, multi-surface coordination, persistence/restore, and I/O failures.
    • Capture gaps: list rules that lack implementation support or current behavior conflicts.
    • Create a Decision Log:
      • decision, options considered, rationale, and why alternatives were rejected.
    • Create an Open Questions list:
      • questions that block correctness, who decides, and what the default is if not decided.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. 2d ago First seen · 131 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A eaa5bbe9faa4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository xiaolai/vmark (544 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed ISC. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,193 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 2026-08-30.

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