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Shep Planning

by shep-ai

Shep Planning is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by shep-ai in shep.

247 stars53 forkson shep-ai/shepAdded 2026/09/02Repository updated 2026/08/28
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Install Shep Planning
Copy Shep 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/shep-ai/shep/tree/main/.claude/skills/shep-kit-plan ~/.claude/skills/shep-kit-plan

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only β€” not the rest of the repository β€” into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/shep-ai/shep.git

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

In this catalog

Source file
.claude/skills/shep-kit-plan/SKILL.md in shep-ai/shep
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/shep-kit-plan
Collection
One of 19 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering β€” 3670 skills

What Shep Planning does

Shep Planning creates implementation plans, architecture overviews, and task breakdowns after research is complete. Use it when turning a feature spec into TDD phases, files to change, and a YAML plan and task list.

Shep Planning is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Shep Planning comes from a repository tagged agent-orchestration, agentic-ai, ai, ai-agents and ai-code-generation.

Frequently asked about Shep Planning

  • What else does shep-ai publish alongside Shep Planning?

    Shep Planning is one of 19 skills that DirSkills catalogs from shep-ai/shep, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Architecture Reviewer, Commit PR and Cross-Validate Artifacts. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Shep Planning does, and is maintained by shep-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the shep-ai/shep page.

  • How does Shep Planning compare to other AI Engineering skills?

    Shep Planning ranks #2357 by stars among the 3670 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 Shep Planning against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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