Task Planning

by zqiren

Task Planning is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by zqiren in Orbital.

251 stars17 forkson zqiren/OrbitalAdded 2026/09/02+7% in starsRepository updated 2026/09/01

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Install Task Planning

Copy Task 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/zqiren/Orbital/tree/main/agent_os/default_skills/task-planning ~/.claude/skills/task-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/zqiren/Orbital.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: agent_os/default_skills/task-planning/SKILL.md in zqiren/Orbital
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/task-planning
Collection: One of 4 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2631 skills

What Task Planning does

Task Planning matches planning effort to task complexity before non-trivial work. It tells Claude Code when to skip, write, or confirm a plan and to check existing skills first.

Task Planning is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Task Planning comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-framework, agent-management, agent-memory and agent-orchestration.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Complexity	Indicators	Planning required
Simple	1-2 steps, single file, obvious path	None. Just execute.
Medium	3-5 steps, 2-3 files, some choices	1-2 sentence plan stating tools and order.
Complex	6+ steps, cross-file changes, dependencies	Numbered step list before first action.

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

Frequently asked about Task Planning

What else does zqiren publish alongside Task Planning?
Task Planning is one of 4 skills that DirSkills catalogs from zqiren/Orbital, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Efficient Execution, Learning Capture and Process Capture. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Task Planning does, and is maintained by zqiren in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the zqiren/Orbital page.
How does Task Planning compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Task Planning ranks #2302 by stars among the 2631 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 Task Planning against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.