Planning With Files is a Claude Code skill — essentially a plugin for AI agent workflows — that adapts the “Manus-style” persistent markdown planning methodology into developer workflows, enabling structured project planning, progress tracking, and knowledge storage using plain text files. Inspired by high-profile agent workflows and context engineering patterns, it uses persistent markdown files (like task_plan.md, progress.md, and findings.md) as the “working memory” for AI agents, overcoming the limitations of ephemeral memory and large context windows that often lead to drift or information loss. Once installed, the plugin supports commands to create and manage planning files, integrates with multiple IDEs and CLI environments, and ensures sessions can recover progress even when context limits are reached.

Features

  • Persistent markdown planning workflow for AI agent tasks
  • Creates and manages task_plan, progress, and findings files
  • Supports installation across various IDEs and CLIs
  • Structured validation (e.g., with Zod) to enforce file formats
  • Automatic session recovery after context limits
  • Templates for phase breakdown, error logging, and reports

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MIT License

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Operating Systems

Windows

Programming Language

Python

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2026-01-30