Planning With Files
PassAudited by ClawScan on May 1, 2026.
Overview
This is a coherent planning skill that writes task notes to local markdown files, with the main user consideration being that those files persist and may contain sensitive task details.
This skill appears safe for its intended purpose of organizing complex work. Before installing, be comfortable with the agent creating persistent markdown files in your project, and review or ignore those files before sharing, committing, or resuming work.
Findings (3)
Artifact-based informational review of SKILL.md, metadata, install specs, static scan signals, and capability signals. ClawScan does not execute the skill or run runtime probes.
Private requirements, research notes, errors, or browser findings could remain in the project after the task and influence future agent behavior.
The skill intentionally persists planning, research, browser, and error details into local files that may be read again in later sessions.
Treats the filesystem as persistent memory to overcome context window limitations... After every 2 view/browser/search operations, IMMEDIATELY save findings to text files.
Avoid writing secrets into the planning files, review them before sharing or committing a project, and consider adding task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md to .gitignore when appropriate.
The agent may spend time creating and maintaining planning files even when the user would prefer a lighter workflow.
The skill gives strong workflow instructions that can shape when the agent creates files and how it proceeds on complex tasks.
Before starting ANY complex task, create all three files in your project root... NEVER start a complex task without task_plan.md — this is non-negotiable
Use this skill for complex tasks as intended, and explicitly tell the agent to skip or stop the planning-file workflow when it is unnecessary.
Installing from a different remote path could fetch content outside the reviewed registry package.
The README documents an npx/GitHub-based installation path in addition to the registry install instructions, so users should verify they are installing the reviewed artifact.
npx add https://github.com/wpank/ai/tree/main/skills/meta/planning-with-files
Prefer the reviewed ClawHub package, and verify any GitHub or manual install source before using it globally.