plan-driven-execution
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Convert a spec or task into small ordered implementation steps. Use before multi-file edits, refactors, migrations, or debugging sessions. Spec, repository map, constraints, verification requirements. A practical plan with task order, file targets, risks, and checks. Use with writing-plans for plan creation and executing-plans for plan execution. Related mattpocock-inspired skill: skills/core/issue-slicing/SKILL.md for independently grabbable vertical slices. Executing a written, approved plan checkpoint by checkpoint (fresh execution). If this skill is not the right phase for your task, use one of…
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4 rules. About 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 21
Use before multi-file edits, refactors, migrations, or debugging sessions.
- Distinctive: line 33
Update the plan as facts change.
- Very specific: line 54
Use with writing-plans for plan creation and executing-plans for plan execution.
- Distinctive: line 62
If this skill is not the right phase for your task, use one of these instead:
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Skill: Plan-Driven Execution
Purpose
Convert a spec or task into small ordered implementation steps.
When to use
Use before multi-file edits, refactors, migrations, or debugging sessions.
Inputs
Spec, repository map, constraints, verification requirements.
Workflow
- Identify files and components likely to change.
- Break work into small tasks.
- Order tasks by dependency and risk.
- Attach verification to each major step.
- Update the plan as facts change.
Outputs
A practical plan with task order, file targets, risks, and checks.
Failure modes
- Plan is too vague to execute.
- Plan ignores verification.
- Plan is not updated after discoveries.
Verification checklist
- Steps are ordered and concrete.
- Risky areas are named.
- Verification commands are included.
- Scope remains aligned with the spec.
Superpowers alignment
Use with writing-plans for plan creation and executing-plans for plan execution.
Related mattpocock-inspired skill: skills/core/issue-slicing/SKILL.md for independently grabbable vertical slices.
Choose instead
Executing a written, approved plan checkpoint by checkpoint (fresh execution).
If this skill is not the right phase for your task, use one of these instead:
skills/core/executing-plans/SKILL.md— if work was started, paused, or context was lost (resumption).skills/core/writing-plans/SKILL.md— if the plan does not yet exist or needs revision.
For the full decision tree across all 6 plan-family skills, see docs/workflows/plan-skill-decision-tree.md.
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