planning-pipeline

Orchestrates the sequence of planning skills from raw idea to agent-ready tickets.

Updated Jul 16, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/pjherron/hypoc --skill planning-pipeline-pjherron
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: planning-pipeline
Source: https://github.com/pjherron/hypoc/tree/main/hypoc/skills/planning-pipeline
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/pjherron/hypoc --skill planning-pipeline-pjherron

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Teams often jump from a vague idea straight into coding, or apply heavyweight planning steps when they are not needed. This Skill defines the correct order of planning stages — grilling, domain modeling, spec writing, and ticket breakdown — and tells you when each step can be safely skipped. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Pipeline sequencing: Defines the chain idea → grill-with-docs → domain-modeling → to-spec → to-tickets → implement, with a decision tree for vague ideas, specified features, and bugs. - Skip logic: Explains when to skip grilling (plan already specified), skip spec writing (spec exists), or route bugs through triage instead. - Planning discipline rules: Enforces one-question-at-a-time grilling, CONTEXT.md as glossary-only, sparing ADR usage, vertical-slice tickets, and frontier-first implementation. - Use Case: A developer has a fuzzy feature idea. The Skill routes them through grill-with-docs to clarify requirements, domain-modeling to maintain the glossary, to-spec to publish a PRD, and to-tickets to produce demoable vertical slices. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to walk a new feature idea through the planning pipeline and produce agent-ready tickets.

Frequently Asked Questions about planning-pipeline

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I turn a vague feature idea into implementation tickets?▼

Run the planning pipeline in order: grill-with-docs to clarify requirements one question at a time, domain-modeling to maintain the glossary, to-spec to write the PRD, then to-tickets to break it into vertical slices. Each step can be skipped if its output already exists.

When can I skip steps in a feature planning workflow?▼

Skip grilling if the plan is already fully specified, and skip spec writing if a spec already exists. The decision tree routes vague ideas through the full chain and well-defined work straight to ticket breakdown.

How should bugs be planned differently from new features?▼

Bugs follow a different route: triage first, then verify, then to-spec only if a brief is needed, then to-tickets. This avoids the full grilling pipeline used for new feature ideas.

What is a vertical slice ticket in sprint planning?▼

A vertical slice ticket cuts through every layer of the stack and is demoable on its own, rather than being a horizontal slice of one layer. Each ticket declares what blocks it, and implementation works the frontier of unblocked tickets first.

When should I write an ADR during planning?▼

Write an ADR sparingly — only when a decision is hard to reverse, surprising without context, and involves a real trade-off. Routine decisions belong in the spec or CONTEXT.md glossary, not in ADRs.