Plan Mode

by wasabeef

Plan Mode is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by wasabeef in claude-code-cookbook.

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Install Plan Mode

Copy Plan Mode into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook/tree/main/plugins/en/skills/plan ~/.claude/skills/plan

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/en/skills/plan/SKILL.md in wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/plan
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Plan Mode does

Plan Mode creates detailed implementation strategies before coding, including requirements, design, and task breakdown, and waits for explicit approval before starting work.

Plan Mode is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Plan Mode comes from a repository tagged claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Plan mode for implementation strategy before coding

Helps you plan before coding. Creates detailed strategies to make development smoother.

Usage

# Request Plan Mode from Claude
"Create an implementation plan for [implementation content]"

Basic Examples

# Implementation plan for new feature
"Create an implementation plan for user authentication functionality"

# System design plan
"Create an implementation plan for microservice splitting"

# Refactoring plan
"Create a refactoring plan for legacy code"

Collaboration with Claude

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Plan Mode

What else does wasabeef publish alongside Plan Mode?
Plan Mode is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Analyze Dependencies, Analyze Performance and Check Fact. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Plan Mode does, and is maintained by wasabeef in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook page.
How does Plan Mode compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Plan Mode ranks #1242 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Plan Mode against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.