writing-plans
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: Planning is read-only. Use warcraft_feature_create + warcraft_plan_write and avoid worktrees during planning.
Save plans to: warcraft_plan_write (writes to <warcraft-root>/<feature>/plan.md, where warcraft-root is .beads/artifacts in on mode and docs in off mode)