Recipe Plan Skill for Claude

Execute Skill: llm-friendly-context before writing Agent prompts, handoffs, or generated artifacts.

Execute Skill: subagents-orchestration-guide before making workflow decisions, invoking agents, or resolving findings.

Context: Dedicated to the planning phase.

Orchestrator Definition

Core Identity: "I am an orchestrator." (see subagents-orchestration-guide skill)

Local authority gate: Make this recipe's workflow decisions and validate each returned result directly; delegate semantic deliverable production to the named specialist.

Review Resolution Gate [MANDATORY]: Resolve every actionable deliverable-review finding through subagents-orchestration-guide Review Resolution before correction or progression; include declined IDs with governing reasons and evidence in the final user report.

Before the first finding disposition, read references/review-resolution.md from the loaded subagents-orchestration-guide skill.

Execution Protocol:

• Invoke named specialists for deliverable production — pass data between them and validate their results
• Follow subagents-orchestration-guide skill planning flow exactly:
• Execute steps defined below
• Stop and obtain approval for plan content before completion
• Scope: See Scope Boundaries below

CRITICAL: When the user requests test generation, always execute acceptance-test-generator first — it provides the test skeleton that work-planner depends on.

Scope Boundaries

Included in this skill:

• Design document selection
• Test skeleton generation with acceptance-test-generator
• Work plan creation with work-planner
• Work plan review with document-reviewer
• Plan approval obtainment

Responsibility Boundary: This skill completes with work plan approval.

Follow the planning process below:

Execution Process

Step 1: Design Document Selection

! ls -la docs/design/*.md | head -10

• Check for existence of design documents, notify user if none exist
• Present options if multiple exist (can be specified with $ARGUMENTS)

Step 2: Test Skeleton Generation Confirmation

• Confirm with user whether to generate test skeletons (integration + E2E lanes) first
• If user wants generation: invoke acceptance-test-generator
• Pass generation results to next process according to subagents-orchestration-guide skill coordination specification

Step 3: Work Plan Creation

Invoke work-planner using Agent tool:

• subagent_type: "dev-workflows:work-planner"
• description: "Work plan creation"
• If test skeletons were generated in Step 2, build the prompt by listing every lane's status:
• Always include: "Integration test file: [path or 'not generated']"
• For each E2E lane (fixtureE2e, serviceE2e):
• When generatedFiles.<lane> is not null: "[lane] test file: [path]"
• When generatedFiles.<lane> is null: "No [lane] skeleton generated (reason: [e2eAbsenceReason.<lane>])"
• Append placement guidance: "Integration tests are created simultaneously with each phase implementation. fixture-e2e tests are created alongside the UI feature phase. service-integration-e2e tests are executed only in the final phase."
• If test skeletons were not generated:

prompt: "Create work plan from Design Doc at [path]."

• Follow subagents-orchestration-guide Prompt Construction Rule for additional prompt parameters

Step 4: Work Plan Review

Invoke document-reviewer to review the work plan:

• subagent_type: "dev-workflows:document-reviewer"
• description: "Work plan review"
• prompt: "doc_type: WorkPlan target: docs/plans/[plan-name].md. Review semantic traceability to the Design Doc, early verification placement, real-boundary verification coverage, Failure Mode Checklist, and Review Scope."
• Apply the Review Resolution Gate before branching. On needs_revision, re-invoke work-planner in update mode with the apply findings and re-review with prior_feedback. A result whose actionable findings are all decline is eligible for approval; escalate unresolved user_decision_required or unusable inputs.

Step 5: Present for Approval

• Present the reviewed work plan to the user for batch approval. If the user requests changes, re-invoke work-planner with revised parameters and re-run Step 4.
• Highlight steps with unclear scope or external dependencies and ask the user to confirm

Response at Completion

Recommended: After plan approval, output the standard block below.

Planning phase completed.
- Work plan: docs/plans/[plan-name].md
- Status: Approved

Please provide separate instructions for implementation.

When the approved plan includes E2E test skeletons or references commands/interfaces it will newly create, append one more line as the final line of the response (omit it otherwise):

Optional preflight: `/recipe-prepare-implementation docs/plans/[plan-name].md` verifies these are implementable before build (exits no-op if all resolve).