Plant Seed Skill

Overview

Capture forward-looking ideas with trigger conditions so they resurface at the right time. Seeds carry WHY (rationale) and WHEN (trigger), making them far more valuable than bare TODO comments.

Seeds are stored locally in .seeds/ (gitignored) and automatically surfaced during feature-lifecycle design phase when their trigger conditions match. This workflow is designed for deferred ideas only — if the user describes work that should happen now, suggest creating a task or issue instead.

Instructions

Phase 1: CAPTURE

Goal: Gather the idea, trigger condition, scope, and rationale from the user.

Key Constraint: This skill captures deferred ideas only. If the user describes something that should happen in the current session, suggest creating a task or issue instead. Planting a seed for immediate work means it never gets surfaced — it just gets forgotten in a different way.

Step 1: Understand the idea