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planning-with-files from othmanadi/planning-with-files is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add othmanadi/planning-with-files/planning-with-files@v3.25.0

Pins v3.25.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: othmanadi/planning-with-files
Path: .pi/skills/planning-with-files/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 22
Latest version: v3.25.0, committed Oct 20, 2026
First version recorded: Aug 30, 2026
Size: 39,765 bytes
Repository stars: 27,556
License: MIT

Persistent file-based planning for multi-step AI-agent work. Keeps task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md on disk; lifecycle hooks inject selected project planning context. Automatic recovery reads project planning files only. Explicit session-catchup.py --metadata reads same-project local agent session records and emits aggregate counts only; --replay may emit bounded nonce-framed excerpts. Optional gated mode can request continuation only when the host supports it and never runs commands…

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."

## FIRST: Restore Project State

**Before continuing**, resolve the plan this task owns:

1. Use the installed `scripts/resolve-plan-dir.sh` (or `.ps1`) with the task's `PLAN_ID` and `PWF_PLAN_ROOT`. Read `task_plan.md`, `progress.md`, and `findings.md` from that one selected directory. A root `task_plan.md` must not override a selected `.planning/<id>/` plan.
2. If an explicit selector is rejected, or multiple named plans exist without `PLAN_ID`, stop plan recovery and correct the pin. Do not fall back to another task. Use the legacy project-root files only when no selector or named plan applies.
3. Run `git diff --stat` to see code changes that may not yet be recorded in the planning files.

All planning filenames below refer to this selected directory, even when the shell runs elsewhere. For parallel tasks, pin each host before starting it or use separate worktrees. A worker joining an existing task uses its assigned plan; it must not create or overwrite a competing root plan.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add othmanadi/planning-with-files/planning-with-files@sha256:9d4d19b59830ffe2

The line at the top of this page pins the label v3.25.0, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_upchliqidvi4yj3a.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_upchliqidvi4yj3a)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 22 versions of this file, between Aug 30, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 2 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
v3.25.0 latest	2026-10-20	de837a9	39,765 B	A	view · diff
v3.24.3	2026-10-17	d363544	39,765 B	A	view · diff
v3.24.2	2026-10-17	4e76b40	39,765 B	A	view · diff
v3.24.1	2026-10-16	6b30f32	39,765 B	A	view · diff
v3.24.0	2026-10-10	7056ed2	39,765 B	A	view · diff
v3.23.0	2026-10-10	8fdb74d	39,765 B	A	view · diff
v3.23.0	2026-10-06	41f60ae	38,892 B	A	view · diff
v3.22.0	2026-10-06	6f01b5e	38,892 B	A	view · diff
v3.22.0	2026-10-06	82ea7d5	38,608 B	A	view · diff
v3.22.0	2026-10-01	dab9d16	38,148 B	A	view · diff
v3.21.0	2026-09-27	51c1caa	38,148 B	A	view · diff
v3.20.8	2026-09-25	4d24d9a	38,148 B	A	view · diff
v3.20.7	2026-09-23	3b7690e	38,148 B	A	view · diff
v3.20.6	2026-09-23	3827d3c	38,148 B	A	view · diff
git:20260916.0d41eee	2026-09-16	0d41eee	37,891 B	A	view · diff
git:20260913.ae7e3ae	2026-09-13	ae7e3ae	37,668 B	A	view · diff
git:20260908.5046267	2026-09-08	5046267	37,108 B	A	view · diff
git:20260905.91b152c	2026-09-05	91b152c	37,056 B	A	view · diff
git:20260902.601df17	2026-09-02	601df17	34,209 B	A	view · diff
git:20260902.484ab1e	2026-09-02	484ab1e	34,123 B	A	view · diff
git:20260902.64837c7	2026-09-02	64837c7	34,077 B	A	view · diff
git:20260830.7e55a06	2026-08-30	7e55a06	34,006 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (39765 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

GitHub

othmanadi/planning-with-files · 27,556 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_upchliqidvi4yj3a
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=othmanadi/planning-with-files/planning-with-files
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9d4d19b59830ffe24263b2d203c2a63ad0fdcbc2b25c864d831907f737ec74d6

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