executing-plans
Use when executing an implementation plan in the current session as the implementer yourself — your human partner chose inline execution, or no subagent tool is available
- Kind
- Skill
- Works with
- Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini / Antigravity
- Source
- obra/superpowers @ 8ca22dba9a94
- Path
- skills/executing-plans/SKILL.md
- License
- MIT
- Jobs
- Implementation
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# Executing Plans Execute the plan yourself, task by task, in this session: no implementer subagent per task, no reviewer per task. One fresh-context review of the whole branch at the end. **Why inline:** Subagent-driven development pays for a fresh implementer and a fresh reviewer on every task, each re-reading the codebase from zero. Inline execution pays for one context (yours) plus one reviewer at the end. What it gives up is a fresh context per task and a second pair of eyes per task. This skill keeps what those two things bought, by other means: the brief is the spec, the ledger is your memory, TDD is the per-task gate, and the final reviewer is the second pair of eyes. **Core principle:** The plan already did the thinking. Execute it exactly, prove each step with a test you watched fail and then pass, and leave a record that survives your own forgetting. **Narration:** between tool calls, narrate at most one short line — the ledger and the tool results carry the record. **Continuous execution:** Do not pause to check in with your human partner between tasks. They chose inline execution to spend less, not to answer …