Planning

Planning is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by nimbalyst in nimbalyst.

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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/nimbalyst/nimbalyst/tree/main/packages/extensions/planning/claude-plugin/skills/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/nimbalyst/nimbalyst.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: packages/extensions/planning/claude-plugin/skills/planning/SKILL.md in nimbalyst/nimbalyst
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/planning
Collection: One of 7 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Planning does

Planning creates structured plan documents and tracker items using YAML frontmatter for bugs, tasks, ideas, and features. Use it to plan a feature, track progress, log work items, or organize project work.

Planning is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Planning comes from a repository tagged agentic-ai, ai-agents, claude-code, codex and coding-agent.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Planning and Tracking System

Nimbalyst uses structured markdown documents with YAML frontmatter for planning and tracking work.

Plan Documents

Plans live in nimbalyst-local/plans/ with YAML frontmatter:

---
planStatus:
  planId: plan-[unique-identifier]
  title: [Plan Title]
  status: draft
  planType: feature
  priority: medium
  owner: [owner-name]
  stakeholders: []
  tags: []
  created: "YYYY-MM-DD"
  updated: "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.sssZ"
  progress: 0
---

Status Values

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

Commands Planning provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/implement
/session-cleanup

Frequently asked about Planning

What else does nimbalyst publish alongside Planning?
Planning is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from nimbalyst/nimbalyst, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include DataModelLM, Excalidraw and Feedback Intake. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Planning does, and is maintained by nimbalyst in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the nimbalyst/nimbalyst page.
How does Planning compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Planning ranks #981 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 Planning against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.