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Plannings in Claude Desktop

Ask Claude for a project planning — tasks, activities, milestones, what depends on what — and it is drawn in the conversation as an interactive timeline. Change it by asking; click an item in the timeline and ask to change "it". Every planning is a file in a folder you choose, and every earlier version is kept.

Nothing leaves your computer for this: no account, no server, no network. Claude itself still reads the conversation, as it does for anything you ask.

It works in Claude Desktop, on macOS and Windows, including on the free plan.

Install it

  1. Download pi-outpost-plannings.mcpb (from the latest release).
  2. Double-click it. Claude Desktop opens and offers to install Plannings (pi-outpost).
  3. Under Plannings folder, click the field and choose a folder — or create one, for example Documents › Plannings. There is no default: the folder is yours to pick.
  4. Click Install, then make sure the extension is enabled.

To use another folder later: Settings › Extensions › Plannings (pi-outpost) › Configure.

What to ask

Write as you would to a person, in your own language:

  • "Make me a planning for redoing the kitchen: demolition in March, plumbing and electricity in April, the kitchen fitted in May, and a milestone when the worktop is delivered."
  • "Show me the kitchen planning."
  • "Move the worktop delivery a week later, and everything that depends on it."
  • "Show me what changed since the first version."
  • "What plannings do I have?" — the folder is drawn as a list; click a planning to open its timeline, and ← All plannings to come back.

In the timeline:

  • Click a task or a milestone to see its details, then ask "move it two weeks later": Claude knows what you selected. Click it again to unselect.
  • Week, month, quarter change the scale; Full screen gives it the whole window.
  • ⤓ Download SVG saves the picture of the timeline. If Claude Desktop does not download it itself, it is saved in your plannings folder, and the timeline says so.
  • Copy SVG markup copies the picture as text, for a tool that accepts SVG.

Where your plannings are

In the folder you chose:

Plannings/
  Kitchen.planning.json      ← the planning, as it is now
  timeline-Kitchen.svg       ← a picture you saved
  .history/                  ← every earlier version (hidden)
  • Each planning is one file, named after its title. You can copy it, back it up or send it. Its contents are readable text.
  • Every version is kept in the hidden .history folder beside it. Claude uses it to show what changed; you do not need to touch it.
  • If you edit a planning file yourself and make a mistake, Claude tells you what is wrong, and the next change starts again from the last correct version. What you wrote is kept in the history.
  • You can rename a planning file: its history follows it.
  • A planning file put in the folder — one sent to you, or saved by pi-outpost — is picked up as a planning of its own.
  • If you delete a planning file, the planning disappears from the list; its history stays until you delete .history too.

Remove it

Settings › Extensions › Plannings (pi-outpost) › Uninstall. Your plannings folder is not touched: delete it yourself if you no longer want it.

If something does not work

  • Claude does not seem to know about plannings. Check that the extension is enabled under Settings › Extensions, then start a new conversation.
  • "No planning …" — ask Claude to list your plannings first; it then uses the right one.

For developers: the server is mcp/ in this repository, an MCP Apps server over stdio. npm run pack --workspace @pi-outpost/mcp builds mcp/dist/pi-outpost-plannings.mcpb, and npm run test:bundle --workspace @pi-outpost/mcp starts the packed server over stdio. It shares its planning gate, update operations, guide and tool descriptions with the Open WebUI server, through apps-core/.