A popular community skill that gives Claude a persistent working memory for big tasks. It keeps the plan, findings and progress in markdown files and restores them after a crash or a new session.

Who it is for

Power users
Researchers
Developers on long tasks

Prompts to try

Once the skill is installed, ask for the result in plain words. Claude picks the skill up on its own.

Prompt 1

Use planning with files for this research project on EV battery suppliers

Prompt 2

Plan and track the migration of our docs site across sessions

Prompt 3

Pick up where we left off yesterday on the planning files

How to install it

In Claude Code

$npx skills add OthmanAdi/planning-with-files --skill planning-with-files -g

In Claude.ai

Not documented: it relies on hooks and local scripts that only run in Claude Code.

Good to know

Plugin option: /plugin marketplace add OthmanAdi/planning-with-files then /plugin install planning-with-files@planning-with-files. Translated variants exist.

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How we checked it

Confirmed SKILL.md at skills/planning-with-files/SKILL.md in OthmanAdi/planning-with-files via the GitHub API; skill folder last changed 2026-10-17, repo has 27,492 stars and was pushed 2026-10-17.

Source: github.com/OthmanAdi/planning-with-files/tree/master/skills/planning-with-files

Planning with Files