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Best planning skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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Planning skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Has the agent carry out an implementation plan itself, task by task in the current session, keeping a ledger, proving each step with a test and ending with one whole-branch review. | obra/ | 296k | 2 repos | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 2 | Asks one question at a time, each with a best guess attached, until the agent is about 95 percent sure what you really want, before any plan, spec or code. | addyosmani/ | 102k | 6 repos | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 3 | Walks you through a complete OpenSpec workflow cycle with narration while doing real work in your codebase. | Fission-AI/ | 71k | 1 repo | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 4 | A skill your agent uses when design is complete and you need detailed implementation tasks for engineers with zero codebase context - creates comprehensive implementation plans with exact file… | geeksblabla/ | 163 | 56 repos | ~661 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 mo ago |
| 5 | A skill your agent uses when executing implementation plans with independent tasks in the current session | Asvarox/ | 261 | 37 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | today |
| 6 | Implements Manus-style file-based planning for complex tasks. | jd-opensource/ | 313 | 18 repos | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 28 days ago |
| 7 | A skill your agent uses when partner provides a complete implementation plan to execute in controlled batches with review checkpoints - loads plan, reviews critically, executes tasks in batches… | geeksblabla/ | 163 | 40 repos | ~581 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 mo ago |
| 8 | Transforms workflow to use Manus-style persistent markdown files for planning, progress tracking, and knowledge storage. | jarrodwatts/ | 1.1k | 5 repos | ~967 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 8 mo ago |
| 9 | Forms a two-agent committee with contrasting profiles to analyze a stuck problem in parallel, reconcile their views and return a consensus plan without editing files. | getpaseo/ | 20k | 1 repo | ~496 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 10 | Adds optional capabilities to Pydantic AI agents from pydantic-ai-harness, led by Code Mode, which runs many tool calls as one sandboxed Python script. | pydantic/ | 20k | — | ~4.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 11 | 11.Autopilot Takes a short product idea through requirements, design, planning, parallel implementation, QA cycles and multi-reviewer validation to produce working code. | Yeachan-Heo/ | 40k | 1 repo | ~4.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 12 | 12.LLM Council Multi-LLM collaborative brainstorming and planning. An agent skill from gcpdev/llm-council-skill. | gcpdev/ | 461 | 1 repo | ~1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 9 mo ago |
| 13 | Audits one product surface against its own design evidence and writes self-contained implementation plans for another agent, without touching product source. | ibelick/ | 9.4k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 14 | Uses ChatGPT in the browser as the planning and review brain for a Codex session, with Codex keeping all execution and ChatGPT reading the workspace through a bridge. | XiaoDuoYa/ | 7.1k | — | ~11k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 15 | Builds self-contained HTML explainers for plans, pull requests and technical concepts in Plannotator's theme, then opens them in its annotation view. | backnotprop/ | 9.2k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 16 | 16.Improve Survey any codebase as a senior advisor and produce prioritized, self-contained implementation plans for OTHER models/agents to execute. | fossasia/ | 1.6k | 10 repos | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Warn | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 17 | Add or extend Redis commands in the Lettuce client API end-to-end — a new core command, a family of new commands, an extension to an existing command's options, or a module/area command… | redis/ | 5.8k | — | ~7.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 18 | Step 1 of the PaperOrchestra pipeline (arXiv:2604.05018). An agent skill from Ar9av/PaperOrchestra. | Ar9av/ | 676 | 2 repos | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 16 days ago |
| 19 | Recalls earlier decisions, patterns and surprises from MemPalace memory before planning, behind a config gate that never blocks the planning step. | open-gsd/ | 10k | 1 repo | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 20 | Breaks work into ordered tasks. An agent skill from abashev/vfs-s3. | abashev/ | 106 | 8 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 7 days ago |
| 21 | Turns a rough idea into an approved design before any code is written, sorting the request into spike, bounded or architectural and enforcing an approval gate. | jnMetaCode/ | 8.3k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 22 | Works through the In progress column of the TiXL road-map board unattended, turning simple tickets into git stashes and writing plans for the rest under .agentic/Plans. | tixl3d/ | 5.1k | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 23 | The binding directive for ultrawork mode: evidence-first delivery, a light or heavy process tier, and constant use of memory during the work. | code-yeongyu/ | 3.7k | — | ~6.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 24 | Executes one selected story or bounded retrospective correction through an executable plan, or one authorized planless slice from a selected simple story or a contextual instruction, with… | terryyin/ | 2.5k | — | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | yesterday |
| 25 | Executes a written implementation plan task by task in the current session, with a progress ledger, test-first gates and one fresh-context review at the end. | jnMetaCode/ | 8.3k | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 26 | Mines a Plannotator archive of denied plans for feedback patterns and prompt improvements, then writes an HTML dashboard report, with a Claude Code fallback. | backnotprop/ | 9.2k | — | ~6.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 27 | Explore-first planning that turns a vague or large request into one decision-complete work plan, written only after your approval and executed by a separate worker. | code-yeongyu/ | 70k | — | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 28 | Turns a vague research direction into a focused, problem-anchored method plan through up to five review rounds with a second model. | zjYao36/ | 128 | 7 repos | ~6.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 6 mo ago |
| 29 | Turns an underspecified do-something request into a typed IntentSpec by looking things up, asking only necessary questions or halting, before any planning or coding. | angel291592/ | 928 | — | ~7.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 30 | Applies the SPARC method (specification, pseudocode, architecture, refinement, completion) with 17 specialized modes and multi-agent orchestration, from research to deployment. | ruvnet/ | 74k | 2 repos | ~829 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 31 | Keeps a task plan, findings and progress log in markdown files on disk so long agent tasks survive context resets, with Gemini hooks and helper scripts. | OthmanAdi/ | 27k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 32 | Writes a structured Markdown implementation plan with checkbox tasks, verification criteria and risks, then checks it with a validation script; no code changes. | tailcallhq/ | 7.6k | 1 repo | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 33 | 33.Plan Preview Plan Mode の <proposedplan を出す直前に、計画の段階・依存関係・検証観点を一時HTMLで視覚確認したい時に使う agent-internal skill。Use this agent-internal skill to create a temporary HTML preview for a plan just before presenting… | u-ichi/ | 298 | 1 repo | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 34 | Draws a 12 Houses tarot spread to break ties when a request is vague or casually delegated, then reads the cards to pick the next step. | trailofbits/ | 7.4k | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | 5 days ago |
| 35 | Analyzes a real-world problem with methods adapted from Mao Zedong's Selected Works: separating facts from inference, finding the main contradiction and setting next steps. | SamadhiFire/ | 356 | — | ~874 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 36 | Charts a foggy effort into a map of decision tickets on the repo's issue tracker and works through them one per session, producing decisions rather than deliverables. | Yeachan-Heo/ | 40k | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 37 | Survey a whole React codebase as a senior React engineer, using React Doctor's scan as evidence, then produce a prioritized audit and self-contained implementation plans for other agents (or cheaper… | CherryHQ/ | 4k | 3 repos | ~3k | Automated safety check: Warn | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| 38 | 38.Coding Plan Enter "plan mode" for a coding task — read the relevant code, optionally ask clarifying questions, design one recommended approach, then write a plain, scannable plans/<prefix-<short-kebab-name.md… | MagicCube/ | 680 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 4 mo ago |
| 39 | Ingest external plans with conflict detection against project decisions before writing anything. | open-gsd/ | 10k | 2 repos | ~1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 40 | Runs a detached, resumable loop that plans, implements, opens a PR, reviews and fixes a feature across headless CLI sessions until the review is clean. | Wirasm/ | 2.3k | — | ~863 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 days ago |
| 41 | 41.Design First Guides the creation of technical design documents before writing code, producing architecture diagrams, data models, API interface definitions, implementation plans, and multi-option trade-off… | rohitg00/ | 1.5k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 4 mo ago |
| 42 | 42.Gepetto Creates detailed, sectionized implementation plans through research, stakeholder interviews, and multi-LLM review. | meshery/ | 151 | 4 repos | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 16 days ago |
| 43 | Turns a vague or ambitious feature idea into a requirements-only plan through dialogue with you, sized to the work, before any code is written. | EveryInc/ | 25k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 44 | A skill your agent uses when executing a written implementation plan across sessions or with review checkpoints. | GanyuanRan/ | 1.3k | 1 repo | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 45 | Keeps a task plan, findings and progress log as Markdown files in the project so long multi-step agent work survives context resets. | OthmanAdi/ | 27k | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 46 | Enter "plan mode" for a deep-research or article-writing task — search the web, fetch sources, optionally run experiments in Python/Node, design one recommended outline and research strategy, then… | MagicCube/ | 680 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 4 mo ago |
| 47 | Performs an initial scan of the ALFWorld environment to identify all visible objects and receptacles. | zjunlp/ | 1.4k | 1 repo | ~786 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 days ago |
| 48 | Add or extend Redis commands in the Jedis client API — a new core command, a family of new commands, an extension to an existing command's options, or a module command (Search/TimeSeries/JSON/Bloom). | redis/ | 12k | — | ~7.2k | Automated safety check: Warn | MIT | today |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best planning skill?
Executing Plans Inline from obra/superpowers ranks first of the 495 planning skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 296k GitHub stars, 2 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 5.1k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Interview Me and OpenSpec Guided Onboarding.
Which planning skills are official?
18 of the 495 planning skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Pydantic AI Harness, Extend Commands API, Let Fate Decide, Extend Commands API, Architect Before Implementing and 13 more.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.
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