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planning
Planning work as vertical slices or an explicitly selected mechanism-reduction program in small, known-good increments, with independent pull requests or an optional stacked-PR topology across one or more ordered slices. Use when starting significant work, turning already-split stories into implementation plans, planning PRs, or sequencing complex tasks. For a mechanism-reduction program, use reduce-system-complexity first to define the conserved contract, terminal mechanism-removal state, and behavior/mechanism gates; planning then sequences it. If the input is a broad story, epic, feature idea, or backlog item that still needs product slicing, use story-splitting first; if a slice needs review layers or later slices should start on an evolving baseline before lower PRs merge, also use stack-pull-requests.
Works with
Install in three steps
- 1
Download the ZIP
One file per agent, plus INSTALL.md with the exact paths below.
- 2
Claude Code: copy SKILL.md into your skills folder
.claude/skills/planning/SKILL.md # this project ~/.claude/skills/planning/SKILL.md # every project
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Other agents: use the matching file
skill.mdc goes in Cursor’s .cursor/rules/. AGENTS.md works as GitHub Copilot instructions, a legacy .cursorrules, or a Codex / Gemini CLI instructions file.

