planning-patterns

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Lets your agent turn ideas into phased project plans with research, brainstorming, and risk checks.

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 planning-patterns skill

About this capability

Structured planning methodology with research, brainstorming, phased plan creation, risk assessment, and plan-to-build continuity.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by a5c-ai/babysitter in library/methodologies/cc10x/skills/planning-patterns/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

  • Search for existing solutions and patterns
  • Identify relevant libraries and tools
  • Find best practices in the domain
  • Check for known pitfalls

2. Brainstorming Phase

  • Generate at least 3 alternative approaches
  • Evaluate trade-offs: complexity, time, risk, scalability
  • Consider build-vs-buy decisions
  • Rank by feasibility and alignment

3. Plan Creation

  • Structure with phases, tasks, and milestones
  • Define acceptance criteria per phase
  • Map dependencies between tasks
  • Include risk assessment with mitigations
  • Define TDD strategy per coding phase
  • Estimate effort and timeline

4. Review Gate

  • Verify completeness against original request
  • Validate logical phase ordering
  • Check actionability of risk mitigations
  • Score plan completeness (>=80 to pass)

Plan-to-Build Continuity

  • Save plans to docs/plans/ directory
  • Reference plan file in session memory
  • BUILD workflow reads plan during requirements clarification
  • Component-builder follows documented phases

When to Use

  • PLAN workflow (primary)
  • Any task requiring strategic thinking before execution

Agents Used

  • planner (primary consumer)
  • github-researcher (research phase)

Signals

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github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter