Planning with Files

Planning with Files is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by OthmanAdi in planning-with-files.

26.2K stars2.2K forkson OthmanAdi/planning-with-filesAdded 2026/08/14Repository updated 2026/08/09

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Install Planning with Files

Copy Planning with Files 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/OthmanAdi/planning-with-files/tree/master/.hermes/skills/planning-with-files ~/.claude/skills/planning-with-files

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/OthmanAdi/planning-with-files.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .hermes/skills/planning-with-files/SKILL.md in OthmanAdi/planning-with-files
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/planning-with-files
Collection: One of 15 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Planning with Files does

Planning with Files creates and maintains task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md so an agent's work survives context loss and /clear. Use it when asked to plan or organize multi-step projects, research tasks, or work requiring five or more tool calls.

Planning with Files is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Planning with Files comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, autonomous-agents, claude, claude-code and claude-code-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Hermes note: lifecycle automation for this skill is provided by the Hermes adapter plugin in .hermes/plugins/planning-with-files/.

Planning with Files

Work like Manus: Use persistent markdown files as your "working memory on disk."

FIRST: Restore Context (v2.2.0)

Before doing anything else, check if planning files exist and read them:

If task_plan.md exists, read task_plan.md, progress.md, and findings.md immediately.
Then check for unsynced context from a previous session:

# Linux/macOS — auto-detects skill directory (Hermes env or default install path)
SKILL_DIR="${HERMES_HOME:-$HOME/.hermes}/skills/planning-with-files"
$(command -v python3 || command -v python) "${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/session-catchup.py" "$(pwd)"

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

Frequently asked about Planning with Files

What else does OthmanAdi publish alongside Planning with Files?
Planning with Files is one of 15 skills that DirSkills catalogs from OthmanAdi/planning-with-files, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Planning With Files, Planning With Files and Planning With Files. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Planning with Files does, and is maintained by OthmanAdi in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the OthmanAdi/planning-with-files page.
How does Planning with Files compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Planning with Files ranks #217 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 with Files against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.