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wayfinder-maps is a read-only CLI and viewer that parses wayfinder planning maps stored as markdown tickets under .plan/, providing status, lint, and a star-map visualization.

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2026-07-14

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Why it is worth attention

It bridges the gap between AI-agent-created planning documents and human-readable dashboards by enforcing a machine-verifiable contract on markdown files, detecting drift and duplicate claims that agents alone cannot see.

Who it is for

  • Teams using the wayfinder methodology with AI coding agents
  • Developers who need to inspect the state of a large effort without opening dozens of markdown files
  • Engineers validating that their agent's planning map is internally consistent
  • Anyone running Claude Code or similar agents that produce wayfinder maps

Use cases

  • Quickly see what tickets are resolved, in flight, or ready to claim with wayfinder-maps status
  • Catch stale or contradictory data with wayfinder-maps lint before the next session starts
  • Render the effort as an interactive star map in a browser or native window for a big-picture view
  • Integrate as a Claude Code plugin to run wayfinder-maps commands directly inside the agent's environment

Strengths

  • Derives ticket status purely from file contents (presence of ## Answer), eliminating a second source of truth
  • Lint catches errors like cycles, duplicate ticket numbers, and empty closing headings that manual review would miss
  • Cross-platform native window (macOS, Windows, Linux) with no Go toolchain required for end users
  • Dual distribution as both a standalone binary and a Claude Code plugin, fitting different workflows

Considerations

  • Read-only tool — it does not create or edit tickets, only reports on existing ones
  • Strictly enforces the format contract; maps that deviate from the expected markdown structure will not parse correctly
  • Does not handle concurrent edits from multiple sessions — it can only report duplicates after the fact

README quick start

wayfinder-maps

A read-only CLI and viewer for wayfinder maps — the markdown planning memory an agent leaves under .plan// as it charts a large effort as a graph of investigation tickets. The wayfinder method and its skills were created by Matt Pocock; this repo adapts them and adds the tooling.

  • wayfinder-maps status — what is resolved, what is in flight, and what is ready to claim (the frontier: open, unclaimed, every blocker resolved).
  • wayfinder-maps lint — does the map still tell the truth?
  • wayfinder-maps serve / app — the map as a star-map, in a browser or a native window (design notes).
$ wayfinder-maps status ../expensif/.plan/daily-timeline
Daily Timeline — continuous days, empty days included
6 resolved · 0 claimed · 4 open · 0 out of scope

Frontier — ready to claim, first by number wins:
  05  Should HandleDaily's two branches converge      grilling
  06  Contain the day-card chrome drift               grilling
  07  The infinite-scroll island's contract           grilling
  10  Test strategy for the date-indexed timeline     grilling

Undermined — resolved on a premise that later changed:
  02  Window size and how older days load             broken by 08

Fog: 5 patches, 1 anchored to a ticket

Install

Skills, as a Claude Code plugin

/plugin marketplace add rengwu/wayfinder-maps
/plugin install wayfinder-maps@wayfinder-maps

/wayfinder-maps then works in every project; the map lands in that project's .plan/. The plugin bundles wayfinder-maps plus the four skills it invokes by name — grill-me, research, prototype, domain-modeling. All five were originally authored by Matt Pocock in mattpocock/skills; the copies under skills/ are MIT-licensed adaptations.

Skills, drop-in for any harness

Copy skills/ into your project and tell your agent to read skills/wayfinder-maps/SKILL.md and follow it; the skills it names live alongside. You may include any of the extras under skills/.optional/ too — skills/README.md describes the full set.

The binary

Description

Planetary visualization tool for /wayfinder maps

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