| name | create-a-plan |
| description | Create a researched Prime Agent plan before implementation. Use for broad or risky repo changes needing 5 to 10 planning questions, web research, reviewer or criticizer settings, and bounded refinement; exclude direct implementation-only, factual/explanation, trivial command-only, or explicit no-plan requests. |
Create A Plan
Use this skill when the user wants a substantive plan before a repository change.
Setup
- Read
../_shared/references/prime-planning-workflow.md, ../_shared/references/state-and-config.md, and ../_shared/references/plan-artifact-template.md.
- Initialize state with
python3 scripts/optim_plans.py init --repo <target-repo> --topic <topic> --plan-level create-a-plan --request-text <original-request>.
- Use
.git/optim-plans for controller state and docs/optim-plans/YYYY-MM-DD-topic/ for public artifacts.
Depth Contract
- Inspect the target Git repo read-only before the first product question.
- Ask 5 to 10 planning questions, one at a time.
- Use web research during brainstorming whenever outside library behavior, ecosystem precedent, UX convention, protocol semantics, or compatibility affects the recommendation.
- Use the standard choice prompt format: recommended first,
Other second-last, Auto-complete last.
- Ask the mandatory final scope confirmation before writing
PLAN_v1.md.
- Write
PLAN_v1.md under docs/optim-plans/YYYY-MM-DD-topic/.
- Run up to five refinement rounds. Continue only for high-priority reviewer findings or unresolved criticizer questions.
- In each refinement round, surface at most five high-priority comments or questions.
- After convergence or user acceptance, ask the native execution handoff question without
Auto-complete.
Fit
Choose this level for multi-file changes, architecture boundaries, user-facing workflows, external APIs, dependency upgrades, compatibility risk, or cases where web evidence should shape the plan.
Escalate to create-a-big-plan when the problem is open-ended, cross-system, strategically ambiguous, or likely to require more than ten planning decisions.
