planning-with-files
A skill/plugin that turns an AI coding/planning agent workflow into a persistent, file-based system (Manus-style). It creates and maintains markdown planning/progress files (e.g., task_plan.md, findings.md, progress.md) and uses IDE/agent hooks to re-read the plan before actions, remind progress updates after tool use, log errors, and verify completion before stopping.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
No network service is described, so TLS/auth are not central. However, the skill uses hooks and writes/reads local files; risk is primarily from local data handling (e.g., path sanitization and content injection mentioned in release notes) and from any dependencies/hooks execution model. No concrete details are provided in the provided README about dependency scanning, CVEs, or secret redaction.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
You have an agent running in an IDE with support for “skills”/hooks and you can persist markdown files in a project directory.
Avoid When
You cannot persist files locally, or you want a purely stateless agent interaction without lifecycle hooks.
Use Cases
- • Long-running coding projects where the agent needs durable working memory (plans, checkpoints, findings).
- • Reducing goal drift by re-reading a persisted plan before key decisions.
- • Capturing tool failures/errors in a persistent log for later correction.
- • Multi-step research + implementation workflows where findings must persist across context resets.
- • Autocomplete/command-driven planning in Claude Code and compatible agent/IDE skill frameworks.
Not For
- • Projects that cannot write to the local filesystem or where persistent workspace changes are disallowed.
- • Use cases requiring a centralized hosted API service (this is a local/IDE skill).
- • Scenarios needing strict transactional semantics or database-backed consistency guarantees.
Interface
Authentication
No service authentication described; it operates as an IDE/agent skill that reads/writes local project files and configures IDE hooks.
Pricing
Repository README does not indicate any paid tier/pricing for the skill itself.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ Relies on IDE/agent hook support; behavior may differ across platforms depending on hook availability and correctness.
- ⚠ Because it uses filesystem persistence, ensure the agent has appropriate write access to the project directory and that concurrent runs don’t conflict on the same planning files.
- ⚠ When using session recovery/clear, automation may attempt to reconstruct context—verify the catchup report before trusting it for subsequent decisions.
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-29.