Light Plan and Work

Planning and doing are one continuous workflow.

Route before planning

Read the request, relevant project instructions, current files, and repository state. Choose one route:

• Direct execution: one or two obvious actions. State a one-line brief and do them; do not manufacture a plan.
• Light plan and work: the outcome is concrete, the scope is bounded, and 3–7 steps can complete and verify it.
• Specialist Skill: a narrower installed Skill owns the artifact or domain. Use it, with this Skill only as the execution wrapper when useful.
• Discovery or brainstorming: the user is still choosing the problem, audience, concept, story, or direction. Use a discovery Skill before planning.
• Heavy workflow: use the project's full specification or plan/work system when consequence, ambiguity, or coordination cost is high.

Heavy conditions include destructive or sensitive operations, migrations, public API changes, cross-system architecture, releases, multiple owners, unresolved acceptance criteria, and explicit requests for a full specification or Compound Engineering. Read routing and verification when the route is unclear.

Execute