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Planning with Files

Manus-style persistent planning that keeps task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md on disk so work survives /clear and context loss.

AutomationIntermediate★ 26,060⑂ 2,177AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 9, 2026

What it does

Treats the context window as RAM and the filesystem as disk — anything important is written to markdown files.

  • task_plan.md: phases, statuses, key decisions
  • findings.md: research notes (the 2-Action Rule: save after every 2 view/search operations)
  • progress.md: session log and test results

It ships with hooks (UserPromptSubmit, PreToolUse, PostToolUse, Stop, PreCompact) that auto-inject the active plan, a session-catchup.py recovery script, a 3-strike error protocol, and an anti-pattern table.

Who it's for

  • Anyone running long tasks that need 5+ tool calls
  • Developers tired of re-explaining context after /clear or compaction
  • Teams managing research, refactors, or builds that span multiple sessions

Examples

  1. Large refactor: ask to refactor the billing module — the agent first writes a 5-phase task_plan.md and flips each phase to complete as it goes.
  2. Technical research: comparing libraries, it dumps conclusions into findings.md every two lookups so nothing is lost when context truncates.
  3. Session recovery: the next day, session-catchup.py plus git diff --stat reconstructs what changed, updates the plan files, and work resumes.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
↓ Download ZIP
Install in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the .codex/skills/planning-with-files folder from the GitHub repo OthmanAdi/planning-with-files into my ~/.claude/skills/othmanadi-planning-with-files-2/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/OthmanAdi/planning-with-files.git /tmp/pwf && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/pwf/.codex/skills/planning-with-files ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/OthmanAdi/planning-with-files.git /tmp/pwf
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill: cp -r /tmp/pwf/.codex/skills/planning-with-files ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Make scripts executable: chmod +x ~/.claude/skills/planning-with-files/scripts/*.sh
  6. Restart Claude Code and ask "plan this out step by step" to confirm the skill triggers.
  7. If you installed to a custom path, add export PWF_SCRIPT_DIR=/your/path/scripts to your shell profile so the hooks can find the scripts.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT