Planning

by davila7

Planning is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by davila7 in claude-code-templates.

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Install Planning

Copy Planning 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/davila7/claude-code-templates/tree/main/cli-tool/components/skills/ai-maestro/planning ~/.claude/skills/planning

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/davila7/claude-code-templates.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: cli-tool/components/skills/ai-maestro/planning/SKILL.md in davila7/claude-code-templates
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/planning
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Planning does

Planning creates and manages persistent markdown planning files for structured task execution. Use it when the user asks to create a plan, track progress, start a research project, or when a task requires more than 5 tool calls and needs structured phase tracking to stay focused and avoid goal drift.

Planning is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Planning comes from a repository tagged anthropic, anthropic-claude, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

AI Maestro Planning

Solve the execution problem -- staying focused during complex, multi-step tasks. Uses persistent markdown files to track goals, findings, and progress so you never lose context. Part of the AI Maestro suite.

When to Use

Multi-step tasks (3+ steps)
Research projects
Building features requiring >5 tool calls
Any task where you might lose track of the goal

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

Frequently asked about Planning

What else does davila7 publish alongside Planning?
Planning is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from davila7/claude-code-templates, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Agents Architect, Agent Evaluation and Agent Management. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Planning does, and is maintained by davila7 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the davila7/claude-code-templates page.
How does Planning compare to other Automation skills?
Planning ranks #93 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Planning against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.