writing-plans

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SKILL.md

Writing Plans

Overview

Write comprehensive implementation plans assuming the engineer has zero context for our codebase and questionable taste. Document everything they need to know: which files to touch for each task, code, testing, docs they might need to check, how to test it. Give them the whole plan as bite-sized tasks. DRY. YAGNI. TDD. Frequent commits.

Assume they are a skilled developer, but know almost nothing about our toolset or problem domain. Assume they don't know good test design very well.

Announce at start: "I'm using the writing-plans skill to create the implementation plan."

Context: This should be run in a dedicated worktree.

  • Delegate worktree creation/switching to worktree-manager.
  • Default intent: the worktree should copy the current working state so the plan can be executed without disturbing the original workspace.

Save plans to: docs/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<feature-name>.md

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