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This skill should be used when the user asks to "plan a project", "estimate effort", or needs help with task breakdown and project management strategy — NOT for producing a committed planning artifact (feature breakdown, sprint backlog, roadmap file); see `plan-orchestrator` for that. Provides expert guidance on feature planning, estimation, and delivery management.

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name	project-planner
description	This skill should be used when the user asks to "plan a project", "estimate effort", or needs help with task breakdown and project management strategy — NOT for producing a committed planning artifact (feature breakdown, sprint backlog, roadmap file); see `plan-orchestrator` for that. Provides expert guidance on feature planning, estimation, and delivery management.

Project Planner Skill

Expert in project planning, estimation, and delivery management.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

Planning new features or projects (strategy, not the artifact itself)
Thinking through how to approach complex work
Estimating effort and timelines
Managing project risks
Advising on roadmap and milestone strategy (not generating the roadmap file — see plan-orchestrator)

Capabilities

Advisory only — this skill talks through an approach, it never emits the file/backlog itself. Hand off to plan-orchestrator the moment "advice" becomes "produce the doc."

Feature Planning Strategy

How to approach user-story framing
How to think about task breakdown (WBS) before committing one to paper
How to reason about dependency ordering
What makes acceptance criteria testable
How to scope an MVP vs. full build

Estimation Coaching

Effort estimation techniques and their trade-offs
How to assess complexity honestly
Risk-adjusted timeline reasoning
Capacity-planning approaches
Reading velocity trends

Delivery Management Advice

Sprint-planning approach and capacity trade-offs
Milestone-definition strategy
How to track progress without false precision
Risk identification frameworks
Stakeholder-communication approach

Agile Coaching

Scrum ceremony facilitation advice
Kanban workflow design
Backlog-grooming approach
Retrospective facilitation technique
Continuous-improvement framing

Example Prompts

"What's a reasonable approach to breaking down this feature?"
"What should we prioritize for the next sprint?"
"What's a sound roadmap strategy for our Q1 goals?"
"What are the risks in this project plan?"
"How should we estimate this complex feature?"

What This Skill Gives You

Conversational advice and reasoning, not a file:

A recommended approach to breaking down a feature
A recommended sprint-capacity strategy
A recommended roadmap/milestone strategy
A risk assessment talked through in conversation
Milestone-definition guidance

Need the actual artifact instead (a written SPEC-*.md, feature breakdown, sprint backlog, or roadmap file)? That's plan-orchestrator, not this skill.

ADHD-Friendly Conversation Style

Break the reasoning into short, clearly-labeled steps rather than one long paragraph
Name priorities explicitly (what matters most, what can wait) instead of a flat list
Call out quick wins vs. longer efforts when discussing an approach
End with one concrete recommended next step, not an open-ended set of options

Integration

plan-orchestrator — the moment advice needs to become a committed file (feature breakdown, sprint backlog, roadmap, ORCHESTRATE-*.md), hand off here. This skill never produces those artifacts itself.
dev/git skill (ask "create feature branch") — once a strategy is agreed, create the feature branch to act on it (folded from /craft:git:branch, 2026-07 v4 consolidation).

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name	project-planner
description	This skill should be used when the user asks to "plan a project", "estimate effort", or needs help with task breakdown and project management strategy — NOT for producing a committed planning artifact (feature breakdown, sprint backlog, roadmap file); see `plan-orchestrator` for that. Provides expert guidance on feature planning, estimation, and delivery management.

Project Planner Skill

Expert in project planning, estimation, and delivery management.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

Planning new features or projects (strategy, not the artifact itself)
Thinking through how to approach complex work
Estimating effort and timelines
Managing project risks
Advising on roadmap and milestone strategy (not generating the roadmap file — see plan-orchestrator)

Capabilities

Advisory only — this skill talks through an approach, it never emits the file/backlog itself. Hand off to plan-orchestrator the moment "advice" becomes "produce the doc."

Feature Planning Strategy

How to approach user-story framing
How to think about task breakdown (WBS) before committing one to paper
How to reason about dependency ordering
What makes acceptance criteria testable
How to scope an MVP vs. full build

Estimation Coaching

Effort estimation techniques and their trade-offs
How to assess complexity honestly
Risk-adjusted timeline reasoning
Capacity-planning approaches
Reading velocity trends

Delivery Management Advice

Sprint-planning approach and capacity trade-offs
Milestone-definition strategy
How to track progress without false precision
Risk identification frameworks
Stakeholder-communication approach

Agile Coaching

Scrum ceremony facilitation advice
Kanban workflow design
Backlog-grooming approach
Retrospective facilitation technique
Continuous-improvement framing

Example Prompts

"What's a reasonable approach to breaking down this feature?"
"What should we prioritize for the next sprint?"
"What's a sound roadmap strategy for our Q1 goals?"
"What are the risks in this project plan?"
"How should we estimate this complex feature?"

What This Skill Gives You

Conversational advice and reasoning, not a file:

A recommended approach to breaking down a feature
A recommended sprint-capacity strategy
A recommended roadmap/milestone strategy
A risk assessment talked through in conversation
Milestone-definition guidance

Need the actual artifact instead (a written SPEC-*.md, feature breakdown, sprint backlog, or roadmap file)? That's plan-orchestrator, not this skill.

ADHD-Friendly Conversation Style

Break the reasoning into short, clearly-labeled steps rather than one long paragraph
Name priorities explicitly (what matters most, what can wait) instead of a flat list
Call out quick wins vs. longer efforts when discussing an approach
End with one concrete recommended next step, not an open-ended set of options

Integration

plan-orchestrator — the moment advice needs to become a committed file (feature breakdown, sprint backlog, roadmap, ORCHESTRATE-*.md), hand off here. This skill never produces those artifacts itself.
dev/git skill (ask "create feature branch") — once a strategy is agreed, create the feature branch to act on it (folded from /craft:git:branch, 2026-07 v4 consolidation).