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Best planning skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Skills that make an agent write and follow a step-by-step plan before touching code.
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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/superpowers296k2 repos~5.1kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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/agent-skills102k6 repos~3.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 days ago
3

Walks you through a complete OpenSpec workflow cycle with narration while doing real work in your codebase.

Fission-AI/OpenSpec71k1 repo~4.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 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/stateofdev.ma16356 repos~661Automated safety check: PassNo licence7 mo ago
5

A skill your agent uses when executing implementation plans with independent tasks in the current session

Asvarox/allkaraoke26137 repos~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassNo licencetoday
6

Implements Manus-style file-based planning for complex tasks.

jd-opensource/JoySafeter31318 repos~1.8kAutomated safety check: NotesApache-2.028 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/stateofdev.ma16340 repos~581Automated safety check: PassNo licence7 mo ago
8

Transforms workflow to use Manus-style persistent markdown files for planning, progress tracking, and knowledge storage.

jarrodwatts/claude-code-config1.1k5 repos~967Automated safety check: PassNo licence8 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/paseo20k1 repo~496Automated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
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/pydantic-ai20k—~4.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
11

Takes a short product idea through requirements, design, planning, parallel implementation, QA cycles and multi-reviewer validation to produce working code.

Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode40k1 repo~4.4kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
12

Multi-LLM collaborative brainstorming and planning. An agent skill from gcpdev/llm-council-skill.

gcpdev/llm-council-skill4611 repo~1kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT9 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/ui-skills9.4k—~2kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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/codex-with-chatgpt7.1k—~11kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT6 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/plannotator9.2k—~1.7kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0yesterday
16

Survey any codebase as a senior advisor and produce prioritized, self-contained implementation plans for OTHER models/agents to execute.

fossasia/eventyay-interpretation1.6k10 repos~3.7kAutomated safety check: WarnMIT2 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/lettuce5.8k—~7.7kAutomated safety check: NotesMITtoday
18

Step 1 of the PaperOrchestra pipeline (arXiv:2604.05018). An agent skill from Ar9av/PaperOrchestra.

Ar9av/PaperOrchestra6762 repos~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown16 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/gsd-core10k1 repo~1.5kAutomated safety check: NotesMITtoday
20

Breaks work into ordered tasks. An agent skill from abashev/vfs-s3.

abashev/vfs-s31068 repos~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.07 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/superpowers-zh8.3k—~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 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/tixl5.1k—~2.6kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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/lazycodex3.7k—~6.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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/lizard2.5k—~4.3kAutomated safety check: PassUnknownyesterday
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/superpowers-zh8.3k—~2.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 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/plannotator9.2k—~6.7kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0yesterday
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/oh-my-openagent70k—~3.9kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
28

Turns a vague research direction into a focused, problem-anchored method plan through up to five review rounds with a second model.

zjYao36/Auto-Research-Refine1287 repos~6.9kAutomated safety check: NotesNo licence6 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/Intent-Router928—~7.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 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/ruflo74k2 repos~829Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/planning-with-files27k—~2.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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/forgecode7.6k1 repo~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
33

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/reviewable-html-workbench2981 repo~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT27 days ago
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34.Let Fate DecideOfficial

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/skills7.4k—~2.5kAutomated safety check: NotesCC-BY-SA-4.05 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/xinqingnian-maoxuan-skill356—~874Automated safety check: PassMIT1 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/oh-my-claudecode40k—~4.1kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/cherry-studio-app4k3 repos~3kAutomated safety check: WarnAGPL-3.04 days ago
38

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/helixent680—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence4 mo ago
39

Ingest external plans with conflict detection against project decisions before writing anything.

open-gsd/gsd-core10k2 repos~1kAutomated safety check: NotesMITtoday
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/prp2.3k—~863Automated safety check: PassMIT5 days ago
41

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/skillkit1.5k—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.04 mo ago
42

Creates detailed, sectionized implementation plans through research, stakeholder interviews, and multi-LLM review.

meshery/meshery-operator1514 repos~2.7kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.016 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/compound-engineering-plugin25k—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
44

A skill your agent uses when executing a written implementation plan across sessions or with review checkpoints.

GanyuanRan/Aegis1.3k1 repo~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 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/planning-with-files27k—~3kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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/helixent680—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence4 mo ago
47

Performs an initial scan of the ALFWorld environment to identify all visible objects and receptacles.

zjunlp/SkillNet1.4k1 repo~786Automated safety check: PassMIT9 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/jedis12k—~7.2kAutomated safety check: WarnMITtoday

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.