Agent skill

Spectre Plan Route

by joenandez in joenandez/spectre

Internal semantic classifier for Plan-or-Execute preparation.

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Install Spectre Plan Route

skills CLI
$ npx skills add joenandez/spectre --skill spectre-plan-route -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install joenandez/spectre spectre-plan-route --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joenandez/spectre.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-plan-route .claude/skills/spectre-plan-route && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
spectre-plan-route
GitHub stars
164
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
465 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
26
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Internal semantic classifier for Plan-or-Execute preparation.

  • SKILL.md covers Purpose, Inputs, Working Set and Outputs + DONE, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Spectre Plan Route is an agent skill from joenandez/spectre. Internal semantic classifier for Plan-or-Execute preparation. Use only from Plan or Execute with bounded routing input; never for planning, artifacts, telemetry, or user gates.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Spectre is a battle-tested 6 stage agentic engineering workflow for building complex, production-ready features. You stay in the loop for the decisions that matter. Your agents…. The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “/spectre-plan-route”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 931c9e8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Spectre Plan Route loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 49 tokens; SKILL.md has 465 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~49
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from joenandez/spectre at commit 931c9e8, republished under its MIT licence (© joenandez). 465 words, ~1,051 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/spectre-plan-route/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
spectre-plan-route
description
Internal semantic classifier for Plan-or-Execute preparation. Use only from Plan or Execute with bounded routing input; never for planning, artifacts, telemetry, or user gates.
user-invocable
false

plan-route

Purpose

Classify into plan-routing/v1 for Plan/Execute; caller owns authority.

Inputs

  • Canonical Scope/authority + bounded work, not size.
  • Initial; observed uses prior decision + selection before drafting; legacy may include Routing Observations.
  • Execute when transported assessment is missing/materially stale.
  • Resume-only legacy size is normalized once.

Working Set

  • Bounded scan: topology, uncertainty, evidence, boundaries, graph risk, shipped precedent, user decisions.
  • If missing evidence alone would cross a costlier route, use exactly one bounded probe (@spectre:finder/@spectre:patterns) for one repository question.

Outputs + DONE

Produce plan-routing/v1: shape ATOMIC|DIRECT|STRUCTURED; uncertainty LOW|MODERATE|HIGH; evidence SUFFICIENT|PROBE_REQUIRED|PROBED; protected_boundaries[] {type, threatened_invariant, failure_mode}; task_graph_risk LOW|HIGH; design flag, size, route, rationale. Observed adds regret, reason codes, KEEP|RERUN_SMALLER|RERUN_LARGER.

DONE when fields validate; probe is consumed; STRUCTURED names workstreams; HIGH graph risk names an implementation-graph failure; only table derives size/route.

Method / guardrails

Semantic resultSize · route
ATOMIC + LOW + no changed protected boundaryXS · XS_DIRECT
ATOMIC + LOW + changed protected boundary OR DIRECT + LOWS · S_DIRECT
ATOMIC/DIRECT + MODERATE/HIGHM · M_REVIEWED_DIRECT
STRUCTURED + LOW/MODERATE + ordinary graph riskL · L_STRUCTURED
STRUCTURED + HIGH uncertainty or HIGH task-graph riskXL · XL_REVIEWED_STRUCTURED
  • STRUCTURED requires multiple independently implementable workstreams; render variants of one surface (layout, density, breakpoint, theme), dependencies, supporting artifacts, workflow/acceptance steps, and pilots are not workstreams.
  • Two shipped instances of a change-shape make the next DIRECT; its layers are not workstreams; STRUCTURED requires a named delta beyond repetition.
  • HIGH graph risk requires a credible implementation ordering/coordination/rollback failure; workflow gates/state transitions do not qualify.
  • A protected boundary needs a concrete invariant + credible failure mode; it floors size at S but never creates structure or HIGH graph risk.
  • Honor confirmed Scope assumptions and explicit selected-source boundaries. Missing paths/evidence permit at most the one probe; when Scope mandates an abstraction, spend it on whether it ships; classify the real delta. Only unresolved, approach-changing uncertainty affects size.
  • Design authority needs unresolved product, compatibility, destructive, migration/rollback, or architecture choice; size and routine placement never create it.
  • Observed consumes the completed minimum-solution selection before drafting, reports regret and KEEP|RERUN_SMALLER|RERUN_LARGER, and never repeats work or removes artifacts. The same routing table alone maps selected structural facts, uncertainty, protected boundaries, graph risk, and assurance floor; it does not select solution shape.
  • Normalize legacy once: MICRO→XS, LIGHT→S, STANDARD-DIRECT→M, STANDARD→L, COMPREHENSIVE→XL; labels never decide.
  • Never use file volume, dependency count, surface counts, or sensitive-domain keywords as size authority, and never let them create workstreams. Never plan, write artifacts, emit telemetry, or present gates while classifying; these limits end with the record and never bind the caller's next step.
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Handoff

Inline (Plan): keep record/probe as internal data; never print it as a reply. DONE does not end caller's turn: in the same response, run the caller's next step. Child (Execute): final message is the record. Caller owns persistence, explanation, orchestration, gates, telemetry.

Escalate-If

  • Canonical Scope absent/conflicting, invalid enum, or boundary lacks predicate.
  • Material user-authority decision: report design_authority_required, never decide.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-plan-route of joenandez/spectre.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 931c9e8

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Internal Communicationsickn33/agentic-awesome-skills47k1 repos~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Spectre Plan Route

What does Spectre Plan Route do?

Internal semantic classifier for Plan-or-Execute preparation. Spectre Plan Route is an agent skill from joenandez/spectre. Internal semantic classifier for Plan-or-Execute preparation.

How do I install Spectre Plan Route in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add joenandez/spectre --skill spectre-plan-route -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-plan-route in joenandez/spectre) into .claude/skills/spectre-plan-route in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Spectre Plan Route in Codex?

Run `npx skills add joenandez/spectre --skill spectre-plan-route -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-plan-route in joenandez/spectre) into .agents/skills/spectre-plan-route in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Spectre Plan Route in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add joenandez/spectre --skill spectre-plan-route -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/spectre-plan-route, .gemini/skills/spectre-plan-route, .github/skills/spectre-plan-route and .opencode/skills/spectre-plan-route in your project.

What does Spectre Plan Route need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Spectre Plan Route is instructions for the agent only.

Does Spectre Plan Route access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Spectre Plan Route safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Spectre Plan Route use?

Spectre Plan Route is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Spectre Plan Route use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Spectre Plan Route?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Spectre Plan Route: Adding Internal API Route (TriliumNext/Trilium, 38k stars), Execute (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars), Debugging Executions (n8n-io/n8n, 207k stars) and Internal Comms (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Spectre Plan Route?

joenandez (a GitHub user) maintains it in joenandez/spectre, which has 164 GitHub stars. The repository holds 26 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 2, 2026.

Source: joenandez/spectre on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.