Search And Plan Agent Skill
Use when external research should inform a repo-change plan before implementation; exclude direct implementation-only, factual/explanation, trivial, or explicit no-plan requests.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/Optim-Agent/optim-plans --skill search-and-planThe instruction itself
4 sections, as written by the authorSearch And Plan
Research first; planning and execution still follow ../optim-plans/SKILL.md.
Required Flow
- Read and follow
../optim-plans/SKILL.md, preserving explicitmini-plan,small-plan,plan,big-plan, andhuge-planrouting. - Inspect the target Git repo read-only before asking product questions.
- Initialize or resume the optim-plans controller before external research.
- Perform read-only initial research. Prefer
agent-reachwhen available; if missing, give one sentence of install guidance, do not installagent-reachor any other tool before execution approval, and continue with fallback search/repo evidence. - Ask the first evidence-informed question as a controller-backed optim-plans choice prompt, and submit/record that answer through the controller before writing refs.
- Only after that recorded controller answer, write sources and
REF_ANALYSIS.mdunderdocs/optim-plans/YYYY-MM-DD-topic/refs/search-and-plan/<topic>/. - Ask any later product questions only after refs are persisted.
- Continue into the selected optim-plans level:
PLAN_v1.md, refinement, immutable execution approval, execution, validation, controller verification, and integration gates.
Research Contract
- Keep a 3-7 high-signal source pack; if fewer than 3 credible sources exist, record the gap instead of padding with weak sources.
- Record attempted queries, attempted backends, backend failures with reasons, why sources were insufficient, and then continue from repository evidence.
- Backend failure fallback is valid only when the failure reason is recorded.
- Do not write pre-execution
./refs/files; refs live only under the run artifact path above. - Do not require a strict source manifest before planning.
REF_ANALYSIS.md
Use these sections exactly:
## Sources## Findings## Adoptable ideas## Risks/not-applicable points## Evidence gaps## Candidate user decisions
Every adoptable idea must be presented as an evidence-backed optim-plans choice prompt and recorded through the controller before it can be included in any plan.
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How to use it
Take optim-agent/search-and-plan from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
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same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.