planning-with-files

planning-with-files is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from YYH211/Claude-meta-skill. It costs 54 tokens per session (925 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of planning-with-files, MIT.

A planning method that stores the task plan, research notes, and final output in persistent Markdown files. It treats these files as working memory for multi-step tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for complex tasks, research, project organization, progress tracking, and structured deliverables.
Why use it?
It prevents plans and findings from being lost during long projects and makes progress easier to track.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: names the TodoWrite tool.

Good fit Use it for complex tasks, research, project organization, progress tracking, and structured deliverables.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yyh211/claude-meta-skill/planning-with-files
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 YYH211/Claude-meta-skill --skill planning-with-files
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YYH211/Claude-meta-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 925 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 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00054 $0.00925
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00370
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00093

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0b3ba3c6d148, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planning-with-files 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to planning-with-files — 15 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

planning-with-files/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planning with Files

Work like Manus: Use persistent markdown files as your "working memory on disk."

Quick Start

Before ANY complex task:

  1. Create task_plan.md in the working directory
  2. Define phases with checkboxes
  3. Update after each phase - mark [x] and change status
  4. Read before deciding - refresh goals in attention window

The 3-File Pattern

For every non-trivial task, create THREE files:

File Purpose When to Update
task_plan.md Track phases and progress After each phase
notes.md Store findings and research During research
[deliverable].md Final output At completion

Core Workflow

Loop 1: Create task_plan.md with goal and phases
Loop 2: Research → save to notes.md → update task_plan.md
Loop 3: Read notes.md → create deliverable → update task_plan.md
Loop 4: Deliver final output

The Loop in Detail

Before each major action:

Read task_plan.md  # Refresh goals in attention window

After each phase:

Edit task_plan.md  # Mark [x], update status

When storing information:

Write notes.md     # Don't stuff context, store in file

task_plan.md Template

Create this file FIRST for any complex task:

# Task Plan: [Brief Description]

## Goal
[One sentence describing the end state]

## Phases
- [ ] Phase 1: Plan and setup
- [ ] Phase 2: Research/gather information
- [ ] Phase 3: Execute/build
- [ ] Phase 4: Review and deliver

## Key Questions
1. [Question to answer]
2. [Question to answer]

## Decisions Made
- [Decision]: [Rationale]

## Errors Encountered
- [Error]: [Resolution]

## Status
**Currently in Phase X** - [What I'm doing now]

notes.md Template

For research and findings:

# Notes: [Topic]

## Sources

### Source 1: [Name]
- URL: [link]
- Key points:
  - [Finding]
  - [Finding]

## Synthesized Findings

### [Category]
- [Finding]
- [Finding]

Critical Rules

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 1mo ago First seen · 161 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 0b3ba3c6d148

Subscribe to this mod's changes

planning-with-files is a skill published in the GitHub repository YYH211/Claude-meta-skill (284 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 925 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to planning-with-files, differing in 15 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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