writing-plans

writing-plans is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yimwoo/hotl-plugin. It costs 30 tokens per session (2,900 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning skill that turns an approved design into a dated workflow file with small, executable tasks. The workflow can include limits and checkpoints defined by the design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create implementation plans with exact file paths, short tasks, loop conditions, and decision gates.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a concrete sequence of work instead of leaving an approved design as a general document.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the hotl plugin — 20 skills, 9 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to create implementation plans with exact file paths, short tasks, loop conditions, and decision gates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yimwoo/hotl-plugin/writing-plans
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.

Any agent
npx skills add yimwoo/hotl-plugin --skill writing-plans
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yimwoo/hotl-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install hotl, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 9 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,900 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 $0.00030 $0.02900
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01450
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00580
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00290

Measured 8d ago against content hash 269f7090f260, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-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 8d 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/writing-plans/SKILL.md · 231 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing HOTL Plans

Overview

Produce a dated workflow file that loop-execution can execute. The canonical filename is YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>-workflow.md, where <slug> is a short kebab-case identity derived from the intent (e.g., 2026-04-22-add-rate-limiting-workflow.md). Each step should be 2-5 minutes of work. Include loop conditions and gates from the design's governance contract.

When the accepted design defines execution limits, include only the relevant optional portable budget fields (max_total_attempts, max_agents, max_cost_usd, max_elapsed_minutes) in workflow frontmatter. Do not invent numeric budgets. policy_profile is descriptive and never grants host permissions.

Announce: "I'm using the writing-plans skill to create the executable workflow."

Output Filename

Save as YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>-workflow.md, where:

  • YYYY-MM-DD is the current local date
  • <slug> is a short kebab-case semantic identity derived from the intent (e.g., add-user-auth, refactor-api)

Examples:

  • 2026-04-22-add-user-auth-workflow.md
  • 2026-04-22-refactor-api-workflow.md

The date makes workflow revisions easy to sort chronologically. The semantic identity remains <slug>, not the date-prefixed filename.

Semantic Identity

The canonical workflow filename is human-friendly, but the stable execution identity is still <slug>.

  • Filename: YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>-workflow.md
  • Semantic identity: <slug>
  • Default branch derivation: hotl/<slug>

When a later workflow revision is created for the same feature, it should use a new dated filename while keeping the same semantic identity.

Output Directory

Default: docs/plans. Opt-in override via .hotl/config.yml: workflows_dir: <path>. Resolution procedure:

  1. Resolve the install path of hotl-config-resolve.sh using the same six-location rule documented for document-lint.sh and hotl-config.sh (see skills/document-review/SKILL.md):
    1. In-repo: scripts/hotl-config-resolve.sh
    2. Codex native-skills install: ~/.codex/hotl/scripts/hotl-config-resolve.sh
    3. Codex plugin install: ~/.codex/plugins/hotl-source/scripts/hotl-config-resolve.sh
    4. Codex plugin cache fallback: ~/.codex/plugins/cache/codex-plugins/hotl/*/scripts/hotl-config-resolve.sh
    5. Cline install fallback: ~/.cline/hotl/scripts/hotl-config-resolve.sh
    6. Claude Code plugin fallback: ~/.claude/plugins/hotl/scripts/hotl-config-resolve.sh

Read the full file on GitHub · 231 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. 8d ago First seen · 231 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 269f7090f260

Subscribe to this mod's changes

writing-plans is a skill published in the GitHub repository yimwoo/hotl-plugin (26 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 2,900 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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