# re0-plan

Initializes a .re0 iteration folder and writes its starter files before re0-loop starts. Useful for structuring work and tracking quality gates in repositories using the paperthin skill suite.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1200 installs · ★ 1342
- Author: LilMGenius
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/LilMGenius/paperthin/tree/HEAD/skills/coil/re0-plan/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/re0-plan

## What it does

The skill sets up `.re0/iteration/<version>-<workname>/` and writes its initial content immediately, avoiding empty directories at creation. It sorts work into lightweight and full cycles. A simple fix receives only a single-paragraph `RETRO.local.md` describing the task.

Full cycles receive `DESIGN.local.md` with scope and quality gates, followed by `WORKFLOW.local.md` and `EVIDENCE.local.md`. If changes touch shippable surface, gates enforce document separation: internal agent rules go to `AGENTS.md`, while user-facing details stay in `README`. Reference notes stay flat as `REF-<topic>.local.md` until multiple files justify a `refs/` directory.

This skill is strictly non-portable: it assumes the full paperthin suite is installed and directly calls sibling skills. It has `disable-model-invocation: true`, which means the human must call it directly. Once files are written, it hands control to `re0-loop`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill re0-plan -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/re0-plan/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/re0-plan/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill re0-plan -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/re0-plan/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill re0-plan -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/re0-plan/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install LilMGenius/paperthin re0-plan
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/re0-plan/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill re0-plan -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/LilMGenius/paperthin --path skills/coil/re0-plan
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/re0-plan/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill re0-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/LilMGenius/paperthin/tree/HEAD/skills/coil/re0-plan/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- initialize the iteration directory inside `.re0`
- record design scope and quality gates before running the build cycle
- split documentation between `AGENTS.md` and `README`
- prepare starter files for `re0-loop` and `re0-memo`

## Example prompts
- Open a lightweight iteration casebook using re0-plan
- Run re0-plan to prepare a full build cycle in `.re0`

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: re0-plan
description: "Open a paperthin iteration's casebook before re0-loop's first turn — seeded with real content the moment the folder exists, never an empty directory. User-invoked, paperthin-only: assumes the full skill package installed. Run when opening a new build cycle in this repo."
disable-model-invocation: true
---

Open `.re0/iteration/<version>-<workname>/` and write into it in the same motion, before a single line of `re0-loop`'s cycle runs.

## Goal

A cycle without a written thesis, gate list, and step plan drifts to whatever framing comes first — and a folder opened with nothing in it tells a resumed session nothing at all. `re0-plan` closes both gaps at once: the folder is never empty from the moment it's created, regardless of which weight the cycle turns out to be. It assumes the full paperthin package installed and names its sibling skills directly. It pairs with `re0-release`, which retires the folder, and `re0-memo`, which extends whatever this skill seeded instead of restarting fresh. It is not a portable planning method — the shape it writes is this repo's own convention.

## Workflow

1. Classify the cycle's weight: a fix or hardening pass with no real design surface is **lightweight**; a cycle with a direction genuinely worth arguing through is **full**.
2. Create `.re0/iteration/<version>-<workname>/` and, in the same step, write its first file — the weight decides which:
   - **lightweight** → `RETRO.local.md`: one paragraph naming the task and why it's lightweight. `re0-memo` extends this same file at the end; it never starts a fresh one. Stop here.
   - **full** → `DESIGN.local.md`: thesis, scope, and quality gates — the same content `re0-loop`'s FRAME turn expects, and enough on its own to survive a session break. When the change touches shippable surface, those gates always include an AGENTS.md/README reflection gate (see Rules). Confirm the read with `readchk`, size the tier with `modelchk`; reach for `macrothink` or another judgment skill only when the direction is genuinely contestable.
3. (full only) Write `WORKFLOW.local.md`: the numbered steps this specific cycle runs through `re0-loop`'s turn order — specific to this build, not a restatement of `re0-loop`'s generic stages.
4. (full only) Write `EVIDENCE.local.md`: the gates from `DESIGN.local.md`, listed as proof surface still to fill — the bar, not results.
5. Keep reference material flat as `REF-<topic>.local.md`; promote to a `refs/` subfolder only once it multiplies past a couple of files.
6. Hand off to `re0-loop`. Do not invoke `re0-work` here — a from-scratch restart is `re0-loop`'s own mid-cycle call, surfaced by `nba` when warranted, never a setup step.

## Rules

- **The folder is never empty at creation.** Every path, lightweight or full, writes real content in the same motion the folder is made, so a session break at any point still leaves something to resume from.
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