roadmap

A planning tool that turns a project's vision and architecture into milestones and an ordered queue of product requirements. A PRD is a document describing one piece of work and its expected result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create roadmaps, divide work into milestones and PRDs, order tasks by dependency, and generate the project's roadmap files.
Why use it?
It gives a project a clear execution order and records which tasks depend on earlier work, instead of leaving planning as an unstructured list.

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/youglin-dev/aha-loop/roadmap
Any agent
npx skills add YougLin-dev/Aha-Loop --skill roadmap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YougLin-dev/Aha-Loop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,760 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 $0.00039 $0.02760
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01380
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00552
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00276

Measured 2d ago against content hash bd86d0f49917, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

roadmap 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.

.agents/skills/roadmap/SKILL.md · 458 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 458 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Roadmap Skill

Plan project execution by creating milestones and organizing PRDs into an executable queue.

Workspace Mode Note

When running in workspace mode, all paths are relative to .aha-loop/ directory:

  • Vision analysis: .aha-loop/project.vision-analysis.md
  • Architecture: .aha-loop/project.architecture.md
  • Roadmap: .aha-loop/project.roadmap.json
  • PRD files: .aha-loop/tasks/

The orchestrator will provide the actual paths in the prompt context.


The Job

  1. Read project.vision-analysis.md and project.architecture.md
  2. Decompose project into milestones
  3. Break each milestone into PRDs
  4. Order PRDs by dependencies
  5. Output project.roadmap.json
  6. Generate initial PRD files in tasks/

Milestone Strategy

Standard Milestone Structure

Milestone Focus Goal
M0: Foundation Project scaffolding, CI/CD, tooling Development environment ready
M1: MVP Core features only Minimal usable product
M2: Essential Important features Feature-complete for basic use
M3: Enhanced Nice-to-have features Polished product
M4: Optimization Performance, UX polish Production-ready

Milestone Sizing

Each milestone should:

  • Be completable in a reasonable timeframe
  • Have 3-7 PRDs (avoid too many or too few)
  • Deliver tangible, testable value
  • Build on previous milestones

PRD Decomposition

From Features to PRDs

For each milestone, break down features into PRDs:

Milestone: M1 - MVP
├── PRD-001: Project Scaffolding
├── PRD-002: Database Schema
├── PRD-003: Core Data Models
├── PRD-004: Basic API Endpoints
└── PRD-005: Minimal UI

PRD Sizing

Each PRD should:

  • Take 1-5 Aha Loop iterations (5-25 stories)
  • Focus on one coherent feature area
  • Be independently testable
  • Not depend on unfinished PRDs

PRD Ordering

Order PRDs by dependencies:

  1. Infrastructure first - Project setup, database, auth
  2. Backend before frontend - APIs before UI that uses them
  3. Core before optional - Must-have before nice-to-have
  4. Data before presentation - Models before views

Read the full file on GitHub · 458 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. 2d ago First seen · 458 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A bd86d0f49917

Subscribe to this mod's changes

roadmap is a skill published in the GitHub repository YougLin-dev/Aha-Loop (181 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,760 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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