ia-planning SKILL.md skillA
ia-planning from iliaal/whetstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add iliaal/whetstone/ia-planning@git:20261015.ddb5006Pins git:20261015.ddb5006 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- iliaal/whetstone
- Path
plugins/whetstone/skills/ia-planning/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261015.ddb5006, committed Oct 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 29, 2026
- Size
- 5,768 bytes
- Repository stars
- 35
- License
- MIT
Software implementation planning with optional file-based persistence. Use when asked to plan, when unresolved architecture or scope decisions need a durable record, or when multi-phase implementation needs recovery state. For the full research-and-issue workflow, use the ia-plan command (/ia-plan in Claude Code).
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Planning Produce the smallest plan that reduces implementation risk and preserves state costly to reconstruct. User requirements and verified facts govern the plan; a reference implementation supplies evidence about behavior, not independent authority to change scope. ## Procedure 1. Define the concrete outcome, evidence, binary or quantitative success threshold, scope boundaries, and stop conditions. If the request already names an artifact and success signal, use them. Otherwise repair activity-only goals before planning. 2. Separate the objective from the proposed mechanism: would the goal remain valid if the implementation changed? Ensure a colleague can understand the objective alone and verify it without knowing component internals. 3. Choose a full durable plan for interdependent phases, recovery needs, or work crossing context limits; an inline list for clear work fitting one session; direct implementation for clear scope and acceptance criteria. File and tool-call counts are signals, not triggers. Inspect hidden decisions such as cache TTL, invalidation, and key shape before treating work as simple. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add iliaal/whetstone/ia-planning@sha256:0f6e91f2b32d9b94The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261015.ddb5006, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2yevqu6gasjwcskp)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Aug 29, 2026 and Oct 15, 2026, about one every 8 days.
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| git:20261015.ddb5006 latest | 2026-10-15 | ddb5006 | 5,768 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260913.9fa1f0d | 2026-09-13 | 9fa1f0d | 5,749 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260907.228ec83 | 2026-09-07 | 228ec83 | 5,562 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.5eab861 | 2026-09-06 | 5eab861 | 18,400 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260829.ebb4730 | 2026-08-29 | ebb4730 | 17,855 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260829.2371e0f | 2026-08-29 | 2371e0f | 17,829 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260829.7e8660c | 2026-08-29 | 7e8660c | 16,983 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5768 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
iliaal/whetstone · 35 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2yevqu6gasjwcskp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iliaal/whetstone/ia-planning GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0f6e91f2b32d9b9401d209da50b84b8751b10d10b678a8ea04a0b4e3f14d1d54
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.