Writing Plan Documents

Overview

Writing style rules for plan documents. Apply these rules to all plans — project plans, PRDs, proposals, implementation plans, design docs. Use alongside other planning skills (e.g. superpowers:writing-plans handles structure and process; this skill handles prose quality).

Rules

Stand-alone document

The plan must make sense without the prompt that triggered it. Do not echo, react to, or frame around the request. Open with what the plan is, not why it was requested.

No filler adjectives

Cut every adjective that doesn't add information. These words are banned:

robust, elegant, comprehensive, seamless, cutting-edge, scalable (unless discussing specific scaling requirements), innovative, streamlined, holistic, state-of-the-art, world-class, best-in-class, leveraging, synergy, paradigm

If removing an adjective doesn't change the meaning, remove it.