how-to-plan SKILL.md skillA
how-to-plan from simiancraft/simiancraft-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add simiancraft/simiancraft-skills/how-to-plan@git:20260602.9f69568Pins git:20260602.9f69568 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- simiancraft/simiancraft-skills
- Path
skills/how-to-plan/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260602.9f69568, committed Jun 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 4, 2026
- Size
- 27,093 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Plans self-destruct when shipped (the Inspector Gadget Rule). Use this skill to draft tactical, hand-off-ready planning docs with a 150-word Goal cap, atomic commit steps with verification gates, before/after file trees, and a two-key handshake before deletion. Trigger on "plan this", "write a plan for X", "draft a plan", "make a plan", "plan a refactor", "plan a migration", "plan a deprecation", "design the implementation", "write a PLAN.md", or when scoping multi-commit feature work that…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# How to Plan A plan is the contract between the session that designs the work and the session that executes it. It only works if it is explicit enough to hand off cold to a fresh agent or a junior engineer who has none of your conversation context. This skill encodes the methodology for producing such plans. Follow it in order. ## Workflow at a glance 1. **Interview** the developer using the interrogation protocol below. No prose until every branch of the decision tree has a settled answer. 2. **Split.** One plan, one discrete feature. Split early if multiple heavy phases would otherwise share a doc. 3. **Decide the plan's scope** (`model` / `subsystem` / `cross-stack` / `project-meta` / `cross-repo`). Scope governs both what the body may reference and where the file lives. 4. **Name the file** descriptively. Never `PLAN.md`. 5. **Draft** the plan with required front matter, required sections, ASCII file trees, and atomic commit steps with verification gates. 6. **Execute** against the plan; mark progress with status glyphs. 7. **Self-destruct** the plan via the two-key Inspector Gadget Rule when work is verifiably done. …
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How to install
mdr add simiancraft/simiancraft-skills/how-to-plan@sha256:4b494421b611f071The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260602.9f69568, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 4, 2026 and Jun 2, 2026, about one every 29 days.
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| git:20260602.9f69568 latest | 2026-06-02 | 9f69568 | 27,093 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260504.b7da582 | 2026-05-04 | b7da582 | 27,352 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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Source
simiancraft/simiancraft-skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6tewuu7pz73mucd6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=simiancraft/simiancraft-skills/how-to-plan GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4b494421b611f071c21bd9958006ca5a43fd8bcfe58b231d93c042806e35aa42
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.