Planning

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

183 stars22 forkson markmdev/meridianAdded 2026/09/06+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/03/11

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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/markmdev/meridian/tree/main/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/markmdev/meridian.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/planning/SKILL.md in markmdev/meridian
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/planning
Collection: One of 6 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3278 skills

What Planning does

Planning interviews the user, explores the codebase, and turns unclear requests into implementation-ready plans. Use it for new features, refactors, migrations, or other non-trivial changes that need precise requirements and verification.

Planning is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Planning comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, anthropic, automation, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Planning

Good plans prove you understand the problem. Size matches complexity — a rename might be 20 lines, a complex feature might be 500.

The handoff test: Could someone implement this plan without asking you questions? If not, find what's missing.

Verbatim Requirements

Capture the user's exact words at the top of every plan. No paraphrasing, no compression.

## Verbatim Requirements

### Original Request
> [User's ENTIRE message, word for word]

### Clarifications
**Q:** [Your question]
**A:** [User's ENTIRE answer, verbatim]

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

Frequently asked about Planning

What else does markmdev publish alongside Planning?
Planning is one of 6 skills that DirSkills catalogs from markmdev/meridian, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Add Frontmatter, Create Docs and Error Audit. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Planning does, and is maintained by markmdev in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the markmdev/meridian page.
How does Planning compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Planning ranks #3039 by stars among the 3278 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.