| name | omh-plan |
| description | [omh] Hermes Plan workflow: structured planning before execution. Use when the user says: plan, implementation plan, task breakdown, safe feature, safely add a feature, add a feature, feature request, new feature. |
Plan
This is a Hermes-native plan workflow skill.
Why This Exists
plan exists to keep planning work explicit, evidence-backed, and inside the Hermes/executor boundary instead of relying on ad hoc chat narration.
Do Not Use When
- The request is casual chat, a status-only acknowledgement, or another workflow has stronger routing evidence.
- The user needs implementation, review, CI, merge, or external publishing evidence that has not been delegated or observed.
Examples
Good example:
- Prompt: plan: handle a planning request that needs explicit evidence boundaries and a clear stop condition.
- Expected behavior: Run
plan only after naming the target, evidence boundary, and stop condition.
- Why: The request matches the catalog use case and keeps observed evidence separate from prepared guidance.
Bad example:
- Prompt: plan: treat casual chat or unaccepted work as if this workflow already produced verified results.
- Expected behavior: Ask a clarification question or route to a narrower workflow instead of forcing
plan.
- Why: The request lacks the required inputs or would overclaim work that Hermes did not observe.
Completion Checklist
- The plan names goals, non-goals, assumptions, acceptance criteria, and verification shape.
- Draft recommendations, accepted decisions, and executor handoffs are separate states.
- Rejected options or unresolved tradeoffs are recorded before handoff.
Recovery Notes
- If acceptance criteria or verification are missing, route back to clarification before handoff.
- If assumptions materially affect the plan, keep them visible and avoid treating the plan as accepted.
Workflow Lane
- Current lane: Intent -> plan (
oh-my-hermes, meta-router, deep-interview, context, plan, ralplan, codebase-onboarding, codegraph-refresh, +4 more) - clarify, plan, ship, or loop goals.
- If intent belongs to another lane, hand back to
oh-my-hermes or name the adjacent workflow.
- Shared product, routing, compatibility, and evidence rules:
omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md.
Use When
Use for structured planning when implementation is not ready to start safely, including feature work that needs a safe plan before handoff.
Strong routing signals: `plan`, `$plan`, `implementation plan`, `task breakdown`, `safe feature`, `safely add a feature`, `add a feature`, `feature request`, `new feature`, `product triage`, `bug triage`, `issue triage`, `reproduction plan`, `workflow hub`, `coding handoff`, `답할 차례`, `준비할 차례`, `project template`, `재현 계획`, `요구사항 정리`, `작업 허브`, `작업 허브가 필요`, `github pr workflow`, `상태와 다음 행동`, `프로젝트별 운영`
Catalog Metadata
Category: planning
Phase: plan
Hermes role: planner
Quality tier: acceptance-gated
Reasoning demand: standard
Quality bar:
- Make goals, non-goals, risks, acceptance criteria, and verification shape explicit.
- Keep draft plans unapproved until a user or wrapper accepts them.
- Only prepare coding handoff guidance after the plan is accepted.
- Plan acceptance approves the plan content, not execution: after acceptance, recommend the follow-on path that fits the work's shape —
ultrawork durable checkpoints for progress that must survive sessions as a checkpointed ledger, ultrawork coordinated lanes for an accepted plan split into disjoint parallel lanes, ultrawork single-owner persistence for one already-scoped task with a single owner, ultrawork for one bounded delivery cycle, or a direct selected executor/runtime handoff for a single prepared coding change — state the fit reason in one line, and start it only after the user's explicit go-ahead.
Handoff policy:
Keep planning in Hermes; if the accepted plan requires code edits, prepare a selected executor/runtime handoff after acceptance, and start a follow-on workflow engine only after the user explicitly confirms the recommended path.
Required inputs:
- requirements
- constraints
- known facts
- non-goals
Expected outputs:
- plan
- acceptance criteria
- verification strategy
Artifact expectations:
- plan artifact when durable execution will follow
Safety rules:
- Do not imply hidden Hermes runtime behavior.
- Use the smallest verification that can prove the claim.
Runtime Evidence
Preferred harness for this skill: planning.
omh runtime record --skill plan --harness planning --status started
Record observed delegation results; otherwise return not_available or not_observed.
Prepared OMH routing is not execution, review, CI, merge-readiness, or merge evidence.
- When wrapper metadata includes
memory_review_card/v1 or handoff_context_pack/v1, treat it as reviewed OMH-local or wrapper-supplied context only. Use conflict-free context summaries to shape plans and handoffs, but do not claim Hermes internal memory was read or changed.
Preserve workflow intent and stop conditions; verify before claiming completion.
Use Hermes-native subagent/delegation features when available: native subagents -> Hermes delegation when available, otherwise sequential lanes.
Shared product, compatibility, topology, memory, harness, and execution rules: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md. Load it when applicable; otherwise name an unavailable capability.