Planning Skill

What problem does it solve?

Creating comprehensive technical plans can be time-consuming and often leads to overlooked details. This skill automates the generation of structured implementation plans, ensuring all aspects of a feature—from requirements and technical approach to testing and deployment—are considered and documented.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Structured Plan Generation: Creates detailed plans following a predefined format, including overview, requirements, technical approach, implementation steps, testing strategy, deployment checklist, risks, and open questions.
• Contextual Awareness: Gathers project context using just info to tailor the plan to your specific repository and existing workflows.
• Best Practices Integration: Incorporates language-specific best practices (e.g., Go error handling, Python type hints, K8s resource limits) into the plan.
• Use Case: When starting a new feature, use /plan add rate limiting to API. The skill will ask clarifying questions, analyze your project, and generate a complete implementation plan, saving you hours of upfront design work and ensuring a consistent approach.

Quick Start

Ask Claude to "Create an implementation plan for adding a new user authentication module."