Claude Productivity Plugin
Keeps a task list and a memory of your colleagues, projects and jargon for Claude
by Anthropic
Planning with Files
by Ahmad Othman Ammar AdiSkillGet organised
Makes your AI agent keep its plan, notes and progress in files so long tasks stay on track
The problem it solves
An hour into a long task your agent loses track, repeats work it already did, and you have to explain everything again.
For People running long agent tasksResearchers using AI agentsDevelopers
- Before
- You keep the plan in your head and re-brief the agent each time its memory resets.
- After
- The agent keeps a plan, findings and progress log in your project and reads them to pick up where it stopped.
- Stars
- ★ 28k
- License
- MIT
- Cost
- Free
- Level
- Intermediate
- Contents
- Includes scripts
Overview
This skill has your AI agent write three plain Markdown files in your project: a task plan with phases and checkboxes, a findings file for research notes and decisions, and a progress log. Hooks remind the agent of the plan as it works, so after a context reset, a crash or a new session it reads the files and picks up at the current phase. It suits anyone who hands an agent research or multi-step work that runs longer than one conversation.
The plan lives on disk as files you can open and edit, so you can see exactly where a long task stands and correct it.
Try these first
Start with the first one: it is a small task you can check easily.
- Plan this three-step research task in files first: [describe task]. Show me task_plan.md before you start.First try · writes files
- Where does the current task stand? Read the planning files and list what is done and what is next.
- Add what you learned about [topic] to findings.md, with the source for each point.writes files
Example prompts written by Agent Flows Hub.
What you get
From the creator's documentation.
| Output | What it is | Reads |
|---|---|---|
| Task plan | task_plan.md with phases and checkboxes, the resume point after a reset | Your project folder |
| Findings file | findings.md for research notes and decisions, added to as it goes | Your project folder |
| Progress log | progress.md recording each session and test results | Your project folder |
| Plan reminders | Hook scripts put the current plan back in front of the agent on each turn | Runs scripts |
| Parallel plans | Separate named plan folders for tasks that run side by side | Your project folder |
Good to know
You give an agent a research or build task that takes many steps and may outlast one session. The skill keeps task_plan.md, findings.md and progress.md on disk so the agent can resume from the current phase.
Limits
- The skill installs hook scripts that run on each prompt and tool call; they need a shell, and Python for the faster path.
- Planning files are written into your project folder. Several tasks in one folder need separate named plans, or the agent stops rather than guess.
Notes by Agent Flows Hub (original project name: planning-with-files), written from the creator's documentation, not from running it ourselves. planning-with-files README and install · planning-with-files SKILL.md
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