# gist-plan

Turn goals into ideas and evidence-building steps, then compare ideas with ICE scores. Use it to plan work around metrics and OKRs.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 47
- Author: haabe
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/haabe/mycelium/tree/HEAD/plugins/mycelium/skills/gist-plan/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/gist-plan

## What it does

gist-plan organizes goals, an idea bank, and experiment plans in `.claude/canvas/gist.yml`. It uses ICE to assess an idea’s impact on a goal metric, confidence based on evidence, and ease of implementation. Revisit scores after experiments; the total helps compare ideas, not decide whether one passes a threshold.

For each leading idea, the skill outlines small, time-boxed steps with a hypothesis, method, success criteria, and MoSCoW priority. It also sets rules for reading canvas files before edits and checking available IDs before adding entries. Mycelium is a dependency: without the framework, canvas state, theory gates, and harness behavior assumed by the skill are skipped.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add haabe/mycelium --skill gist-plan -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add haabe/mycelium --skill gist-plan -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install haabe/mycelium gist-plan
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/haabe/mycelium --path plugins/mycelium/skills/gist-plan
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add haabe/mycelium --skill gist-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/haabe/mycelium/tree/HEAD/plugins/mycelium/skills/gist-plan/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Break a metric-based goal into ideas and testable steps
- Compare ideas by impact, confidence, and implementation effort
- Revise idea scores as experiments produce evidence
- Set MoSCoW priorities for planned steps
- Avoid reusing IDs in canvas files

## Example prompts
- Break this metric-based goal into ideas and steps in `.claude/canvas/gist.yml`.
- Compare these ideas with ICE and show impact, confidence, and ease.
- Plan a test for the leading idea with a hypothesis, method, success criteria, and MoSCoW priority.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: gist-plan
description: "GIST planning workflow. Structure goals into ideas, steps, and tasks using Gilad's evidence-guided framework."
metadata:
  instruction_budget: "32"
  framework_dependency: "mycelium"
  framework_dependency_note: "This skill is designed to run within the Mycelium framework (https://github.com/haabe/mycelium). Standalone use will skip the canvas state, theory gates, and harness behavior the skill assumes. Install: /plugin install mycelium@haabe-mycelium."
---

# GIST Planning

Replace opinion-based roadmaps with evidence-guided planning. Source: Gilad (Evidence Guided).

## Preflight: Read target canvas file(s) before any Write/Edit

**Hard rule.** Before issuing `Write` or `Edit` against any `.claude/canvas/*.yml`, use the **Read tool** on that file in this session. Claude Code's Read-before-Write check requires the `Read` tool specifically — `cat`/`head`/`grep` via Bash do NOT satisfy it.

**Edit vs Write — different cost profiles** (verified 2026-05-14):
- **`Edit`** (exact-string replacement): `Read` with `limit: 1` satisfies the check at ~50 tokens. State-tracking is per-file, not per-byte — subsequent `Edit` calls work anywhere in the file. Use this for partial updates against large canvas files (e.g., `purpose.yml` at 800+ lines).
- **`Write`** (full replacement): do a **full Read** first. Write obliterates the file; you should see what you're about to replace. The `limit:1` shortcut is *not* appropriate here.

**ID-bearing entries — scan the ID space before assigning** (added 2026-05-15, v0.23.19): When adding a new component, opportunity, solution, or any other ID-bearing entry to a canvas file, run a Bash grep first to confirm the next ID in your prefix sequence is actually free:

```
grep -o "<prefix>-[0-9][0-9]*" .claude/canvas/<file>.yml | sort -u -t- -k2 -n | tail -3
```

Replace `<prefix>` with the canvas's ID prefix (`comp` for landscape, `opp` for opportunities, `sol` for solutions, `ht` for human-tasks, etc.). Then pick the next free integer, **matching the zero-padding already used in that file**. The sort is NUMERIC (`-t- -k2 -n`) rather than lexical, and that is not pedantry: a plain `sort -u` orders `ht-1` after `ht-080`, so on a canvas with inconsistent padding it reports the wrong maximum and the next ID collides. Verified on the dogfood repo 2026-08-13, where lexical sort returned `ht-1` as the highest human-task ID against an actual `ht-080`. `grep -o` is also deliberate: it matches IDs wherever they appear, including cross-references and prose, so an ID that was promised somewhere but not yet defined is not handed out twice. `validate_canvas.py` has a per-file duplicate-ID check (it reports `duplicate id '<id>'`) that catches the failure on CI, but a duplicate can persist in the working tree for days if CI isn't run between edit and discovery; that happened on 2026-05-15, when a duplicate ID was created in `landscape.yml`.
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