plastic-intent-planning

plastic-intent-planning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zalom/plastic. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,968 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for writing detailed implementation plans from a software specification. TDD means writing tests to describe expected behavior before or alongside the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating `plan.md`, `checklist.md`, and action files for implementation work, including code changes, tests, documentation, and commit planning.
Why use it?
It gives an engineer with little project context a file-by-file plan, testing guidance, and small actionable tasks, while checking that an active project intent and specification exist.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the plastic plugin — 43 skills, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install plastic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,968 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 $0.00041 $0.01968
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00984
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00394
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00197

Measured 4d ago against content hash ba7ee422790b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plastic-intent-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 4d 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/intent-planning/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Plans

Overview

Write comprehensive implementation plans assuming the engineer has zero context for our codebase and questionable taste. Document everything they need to know: which files to touch for each task, code, testing, docs they might need to check, how to test it. Give them the whole plan as bite-sized tasks. DRY. YAGNI. TDD. Frequent commits.

Assume they are a skilled developer, but know almost nothing about our toolset or problem domain. Assume they don't know good test design very well.

Active Intent Gate

Before proceeding, resolve the active intent:

  1. Detect store: Read ~/.plastic/projects.yml, match CWD against registered project paths. If match → project store at ~/.plastic/projects/{slug}/store/. If no match → global store at ~/.plastic/store/.
  2. Find active intent: Read INDEX.md from the detected store. Look under ## Active. If exactly one → use it. If multiple → ask which. If none → refuse: "No active intent. Create one first with /plastic-intent-creating"
  3. Resolve intent directory: {store}/store/{id}--{slug}/
  4. Read spec: Load {intent_dir}/spec.md. If no spec exists → refuse: "No spec found. Run /plastic-intent-speccing first."

All artifacts go to the intent directory. Never write to external paths.

Scope Check

If the spec covers multiple independent subsystems, it should have been broken into sub-project specs during brainstorming. If it wasn't, suggest breaking this into separate plans, one per subsystem. Each plan should produce working, testable software on its own.

Tier shapes

Read ../plastic-conventions/references/tiers-and-dispatch.md for tier sizing and the stage-to-agent dispatch rules behind this section. This path resolves relative to this skill's own installed directory.

Read the spec's stamped Tier: line (written by intent-speccing) and pick the action shape it calls for. Every tier produces at least one REAL action file in actions/; the tier only changes how many:

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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. 4d ago First seen · 146 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A ba7ee422790b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plastic-intent-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository zalom/plastic (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,968 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 2026-08-31.

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