writing-plans
Turn a spec or requirements for a multi-step task into a written implementation plan before any code is touched.
- Kind
- Skill
- Works with
- Claude Code
- Source
- Claude Code Templates @ 72e5f237f64d
- Path
- cli-tool/components/skills/development/writing-plans/SKILL.md
- License
- MIT
- Jobs
- Planning
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# Writing Plans ## Overview Write comprehensive implementation plans assuming the engineer has zero context for our codebase and questionable taste. Document everything they need to know: which files to touch for each task, code, testing, docs they might need to check, how to test it. Give them the whole plan as bite-sized tasks. DRY. YAGNI. TDD. Frequent commits. Assume they are a skilled developer, but know almost nothing about our toolset or problem domain. Assume they don't know good test design very well. **Announce at start:** "I'm using the writing-plans skill to create the implementation plan." **Context:** This should be run in a dedicated worktree (created by brainstorming skill). **Save plans to:** `docs/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<feature-name>.md` ## Bite-Sized Task Granularity **Each step is one action (2-5 minutes):** - "Write the failing test" - step - "Run it to make sure it fails" - step - "Implement the minimal code to make the test pass" - step - "Run the tests and make sure they pass" - step - "Commit" - step ## Plan Document Header **Every plan MUST start with this header:** ```markdown # [Feature Name] Implementation Plan …