iterative-planner SKILL.md skillA
iterative-planner from nikolasmarkou/iterative-planner is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nikolasmarkou/iterative-planner/iterative-planner@__SKILL_VERSION__Pins __SKILL_VERSION__ in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nikolasmarkou/iterative-planner
- Path
src/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- __SKILL_VERSION__, committed Sep 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 9, 2026
- Size
- 50,857 bytes
- Repository stars
- 72
- License
- Apache-2.0
State-machine driven iterative planning and execution for complex coding tasks. Cycle: Explore → Plan → Execute → Reflect → Pivot. Filesystem as persistent memory. Use for multi-file tasks, migrations, refactoring, failed tasks, or anything non-trivial.
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
# Iterative Planner
**Core Principle**: Context Window = RAM. Filesystem = Disk.
Write to disk immediately. The context window will rot. The files won't.
**`{plan-dir}`** = `plans/plan-YYYY-MM-DDTHHMMSS-XXXXXXXX/` (active plan directory under project root; UTC timestamp, colon-free, 8-hex tail). Directories created before v2.36.0 use the legacy shape `plans/plan_YYYY-MM-DD_XXXXXXXX/` — never generated again, but **always still read**: every id-recognizing path (pointer, `retire`, anchor scan, `## <plan-id>` sections, `*Plan:*` preamble, sliding-window trim, INDEX date) accepts the union of both grammars.
**Discovery**: `plans/.current_plan` contains the plan directory name. One active plan at a time.
**Cross-plan context**: `plans/FINDINGS.md`, `plans/DECISIONS.md` (merged on close), `plans/LESSONS.md` (rewritten on close), `plans/SYSTEM.md` (system atlas — domain-neutral map of the target system, rewritten on close), `plans/INDEX.md` (topic→directory map, survives sliding-window trim). Caps + R/W rules: File Lifecycle Matrix.
## Orchestrator Role Assumption (READ FIRST)
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nikolasmarkou/iterative-planner/iterative-planner@sha256:985e5af96532a84cThe line at the top of this page pins the label __SKILL_VERSION__, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 9, 2026 and Sep 12, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| __SKILL_VERSION__ latest | 2026-09-12 | 125cfc8 | 50,857 B | A | view · diff |
| __SKILL_VERSION__ | 2026-09-12 | 627a27f | 50,558 B | A | view · diff |
| __SKILL_VERSION__ | 2026-09-11 | af059e6 | 50,550 B | A | view · diff |
| __SKILL_VERSION__ | 2026-09-11 | 45e2ae0 | 50,353 B | A | view · diff |
| __SKILL_VERSION__ | 2026-09-09 | a05ea35 | 47,738 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 (50857 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
nikolasmarkou/iterative-planner · 72 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_s2yonunbskwif5zo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nikolasmarkou/iterative-planner/iterative-planner GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/985e5af96532a84c1117ca29077e931ee5f6d08636b35e700f1f99ac2d334f9a
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.