Planning With Files

by jarrodwatts

Planning With Files is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by jarrodwatts in claude-code-config.

1.1K stars121 forkson jarrodwatts/claude-code-configAdded 2026/08/21Repository updated 2026/01/21

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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/jarrodwatts/claude-code-config/tree/main/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/jarrodwatts/claude-code-config.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/planning-with-files/SKILL.md in jarrodwatts/claude-code-config
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/planning-with-files
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Planning With Files does

Planning With Files uses persistent markdown files for task plans, notes, and final deliverables. Use it for complex, multi-step work, research, or when you need structured progress tracking.

Planning With Files is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Planning With Files comes from a repository tagged ai, claude, claude-code, developer-tools and dotfiles.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Planning with Files

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

Quick Start

Before ANY complex task:

Create task_plan.md in the working directory
Define phases with checkboxes
Update after each phase - mark [x] and change status
Read before deciding - refresh goals in attention window

The 3-File Pattern

For every non-trivial task, create THREE files:

File	Purpose	When to Update
`task_plan.md`	Track phases and progress	After each phase
`notes.md`	Store findings and research	During research
`[deliverable].md`	Final output	At completion

Core Workflow

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

Frequently asked about Planning With Files

What else does jarrodwatts publish alongside Planning With Files?
Planning With Files is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from jarrodwatts/claude-code-config, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include React UseEffect, Rigorous Coding and Vercel React Best Practices. 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 jarrodwatts in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the jarrodwatts/claude-code-config page.
How does Planning With Files compare to other Automation skills?
Planning With Files ranks #797 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 With Files against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.