plan-writing

SkillProductivity

Lets your agent turn research findings into step-by-step implementation plans with tests and small tasks.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the plan-writing skill

About this capability

Transform research findings into actionable implementation plans with stakes-based rigor, test-first strategy, and granular task decomposition.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by a5c-ai/babysitter in library/methodologies/rpikit/skills/plan-writing/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

  • Before implementing any medium or high stakes changes
  • When requirements are clear and codebase is understood

Process

  1. Load research - Find *-<topic>-research.md in docs/plans/
  2. Classify stakes - Low (isolated, reversible), Medium (multiple files), High (architectural)
  3. Define success criteria - Functional, non-functional, and acceptance criteria
  4. Decompose tasks - Granular steps with file paths, line references, verification methods
  5. Plan tests - Test specification as first sub-step per task (test-first)
  6. Assess risks - Breaking changes, performance, security, dependencies, rollback strategy
  7. Write plan document - docs/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-plan.md
  8. Approval gate - Human approves, requests changes, or returns to research

Anti-Patterns to Avoid

  • Vague task descriptions without specific file references
  • Missing verification criteria for any step
  • Combining test writing and implementation into single steps
  • Planning rigor mismatched to stakes level
  • Proceeding without explicit user approval

Tool Use

Invoke via babysitter process: methodologies/rpikit/rpikit-plan

Signals

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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
plan-writing
Source
github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter