plan-mode-permission-gating

plan-mode-permission-gating is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ychampion/cskill-agents. It costs 26 tokens per session (386 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A permission check for entering a planning state before a complex task can make file changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps enforce reviewable plan-mode workflows in coding agents.
Why use it?
It keeps planning separate from editing and ensures only the main session can change into that state.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps enforce reviewable plan-mode workflows in coding agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ychampion/cskill-agents/plan-mode-permission-gating
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ychampion/cskill-agents --skill plan-mode-permission-gating
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ychampion/cskill-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 386 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 $0.00026 $0.00386
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00193
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00039

Measured 7d ago against content hash 0c838f21c976, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-mode-permission-gating 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 7d 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.

agents/claude-code/skills/plan-mode-permission-gating/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

SKILL: Plan Mode Permission Gating

Domain: permission-gating Trigger: Invoke when the user wants to enter plan mode or a complex implementation requires additional permission scrutiny before introducing file edits. Source Pattern: Distilled from reviewed plan-mode entry and permission-transition implementations.

Core Method

Wrap plan-mode entry in an explicit permission transition. Validate that the request comes from the root session, switch the shared permission context into a planning state, and emit a standardized banner that reminds agents to explore before editing. Centralizing that transition prevents individual call sites from bypassing the plan-mode contract or drifting into edits before planning is complete.

Key Rules

  • Treat plan-mode entry as a read-only permission change that cannot be invoked inside a child-agent context.
  • Reconfigure the shared permission context through one centralized transition path so state sync and side effects stay consistent.
  • Return a human-facing banner describing the plan-mode obligations, and let follow-up instructions adapt to the active plan-mode variant.
  • Keep the tool’s UI payload minimal but explicit about the no-edit rule; reuse the same instructions for both regular and interview-enhanced plan mode.

Example Application

Use this skill when a CLI state machine detects a non-trivial refactor request: enter plan mode first, flip the session into a no-edit planning state, and require a reviewed plan before touching files.

Anti-Patterns (What NOT to do)

  • Don’t let a code path change permissions directly without the standardized transition, or some agents will edge into edits without the plan-mode reminder.
  • Don’t ignore agent forks — the gate belongs only to the root session, so refuse plan-mode tool calls when context.agentId is set.
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. 7d ago First seen · 29 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 0c838f21c976

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plan-mode-permission-gating is a skill published in the GitHub repository ychampion/cskill-agents (36 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 386 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.