# plan

Turns a vague request into a single end-to-end slice with observable behavior and clear edit boundaries. Handy before you start coding.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1500 installs · ★ 450
- Author: boshu2
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/boshu2/agentops/tree/HEAD/skills/plan/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-26
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/boshu2-plan

## What it does

The skill narrows a request down to the smallest change that produces a visible result across every layer it touches. There is no roadmap and no phases: anything else lands under Later, each item tagged with the evidence that would promote it. Design comes after an example, written as Given/When/Then, and that example has to cover a boundary where a mistake is expensive to undo, such as a repeated external call or widened access.

The skill reads code, docs and the tracker itself instead of interrogating you. At most one question goes back to the caller, and only about a choice the sources cannot settle; it arrives with a recommendation and what the alternative costs. Edit scope follows consumers: the owners to change, live callers and tests of the behavior. The check is written to fail today and pass once the slice is in.

Output is a block of lines — Outcome, Example, Slice, Scope, Check, Question, Later — written into the caller's existing intent if that is allowed, otherwise returned as a proposed amendment. The `ao` CLI helper that lists evidence bound to changed files is not part of the plugin, so scorecards or fixtures tied to edited files need their recapture scheduled by hand.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill plan -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/plan/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/plan/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill plan -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/plan/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill plan -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/plan/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install boshu2/agentops plan
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/plan/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill plan -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/boshu2/agentops --path skills/plan
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/plan/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill plan -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/boshu2/agentops/tree/HEAD/skills/plan/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- cut a vague request down to one end-to-end change
- write a Given/When/Then example before any design
- bound edits by live callers and tests
- separate required guards from unrequested abstraction
- define a check that fails now and passes after the slice

## Example prompts
- Shape this into one slice with an observable result and fill the plan block
- Plan the config format migration with the plan skill
- Ask one question about the storage choice, with your pick and its tradeoff

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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```text
---
name: plan
description: 'Shape a request into one end-to-end slice with observable behavior; review write scope and reversible decisions. Use when: planning, breaking down or scoping a change.'
practices:
- bdd-gherkin
- design-by-contract
- ddd-bounded-context
hexagonal_role: domain
consumes: []
produces: []
output_contract: 'in-place caller intent update or concise proposed amendment; never an AgentOps planning artifact'
context_rel: []
skill_api_version: 1
user-invocable: true
metadata:
  graph_root: true
  tier: execution
  dependencies: []
  capabilities: [shape_intent, define_acceptance, bound_write_scope, resume_discovery]
  effects: [update_intent_source]
  canonical_status: canonical
  disposition: keep
  triggers: ["write scope", "scope boundaries"]
---

# Plan

Shape missing intent into one actionable slice, then stop. A clear change can
proceed directly; load a specialist only for the question it answers.
Prefer the caller's tracker, if any; otherwise use the conversation or
supplied text. Supplied advice, such as an [Idea Genie](../idea-genie/SKILL.md)
portfolio or challenge, is evidence to weigh, never a decision.

## A plan meets these rules

1. **One slice, not a roadmap.** Shape the narrowest change that produces an
   observable result end to end, through every layer it touches. No phases,
   no layer-by-layer breakdown, no backlog: later work stays one coarse line
   each until new evidence makes it the next slice. When several slices could
   go first, prefer the smallest observable path that tests the approach's
   riskiest dependency. Outcomes that are each useful and checkable alone are
   separate plans, not slices: unless the request, the tracker or Navigate
   already settles which comes first, ask (rule 3) and keep the rest under
   Later. Named providers, devices or data
   sources are coverage of one outcome; separate them only when no shared path
   can meet a named requirement, and keep parts together when specifying one
   alone would mean guessing behavior it shares with another. Name any
   stand-in and what it cannot establish; a demonstration with that stand-in
   is not proof of the real integration.
2. **An example before any design.** Write at least one Given/When/Then with
   an observable result. Cover the boundary where a mistake is costly to
   undo, such as a repeated or external side effect, lost data or widened
   access, not only the happy path.
3. **Look up facts; ask only for choices.** Read code, docs and the tracker
   instead of asking. Ask the caller at most one question, only for a choice
   no source can answer, with your recommendation and its tradeoff. When
   several choices compete for it (which outcome comes first, a rule 7
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