planning-with-files SKILL.md skillA
planning-with-files from vandeefeng/pi-memory-md is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vandeefeng/pi-memory-md/planning-with-files@git:20261018.d026b76Pins git:20261018.d026b76 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vandeefeng/pi-memory-md
- Path
skills/planning-with-files/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261018.d026b76, committed Oct 18, 2026
- Size
- 11,000 bytes
- Repository stars
- 64
- License
- MIT
Implements Manus-style file-based planning for complex tasks. Creates task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md. Use when starting complex multi-step tasks, research projects.
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 with Files Work like Manus: Use persistent markdown files as your "working memory on disk." ## Quick Start Before ANY complex task: 1. **Summarize the task as a short directory-safe plan description** (e.g. `fix-login-bug`), then run `scripts/plan.sh init "[session id]" "[plan description]"` from the Git project — Create the session folder and initialize `findings.md` and `progress.md` 2. **Create a task-specific `task_plan.md`** in the printed folder — Use [templates/task_plan.md](templates/task_plan.md) as reference; do not generate a generic plan 3. **Refresh context before decisions or phase changes** — Run `scripts/plan.sh context "[plan directory]"`; read the full plan or findings when the summary is insufficient 4. **Update after each phase** — Review phase-scoped changes, verify, prune transient tests, log results 5. **Archive prior phases after exceeding 1200 lines** — When any of the three live Markdown files exceeds 1200 lines, move all content from phases before the current phase in that file into the session folder's `archive/` directory and leave relative links; do not archive only enough to fall below the threshold …
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How to install
mdr add vandeefeng/pi-memory-md/planning-with-files@sha256:9308644a0863415aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261018.d026b76, 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_t36222mwzc2d2d7x)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 18, 2026.
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- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- 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
vandeefeng/pi-memory-md · 64 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_t36222mwzc2d2d7x GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vandeefeng/pi-memory-md/planning-with-files GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9308644a0863415a4338ce6e15a141e1ae62399c9d226a7d1fecc548daa0b91a
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