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plan-writing

Structured task planning with clear breakdowns, dependencies, and verification criteria. Use when implementing features, refactoring, or any multi-step work.

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Quality

Content

61%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-formatted, mostly actionable planning framework whose main weaknesses are redundancy across three overlapping sections (breakdown principles, planning principles, best practices) and an internal contradiction about whether plans should have phases. The absence of a sequenced authoring workflow and the dangling script references leave modest gaps in workflow clarity and actionability.

Suggestions

Collapse 'Task Breakdown Principles', 'Planning Principles', and 'Best Practices (Quick Reference)' into a single section — they repeatedly state the same small/specific/verifiable-task guidance, which would cut the body by roughly a third.

Resolve the phase contradiction: either remove '**Phase X: Verification is always LAST**' from 'Logical Ordering' or drop 'No phases, no sub-sections unless truly needed' from the Plan Structure section so the guidance is consistent.

Clarify the script table: either bundle the referenced scripts (ux_audit.py, api_validator.py, etc.) or rephrase them as generic categories (e.g., 'a UX/accessibility audit script') since no scripts/ directory exists in this skill bundle.

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Conciseness

The body restates the same guidance across three parallel sections — 'Task Breakdown Principles' ('Each task should take 2-5 minutes... Independently verifiable'), 'Principle 1: Keep It SHORT' ('5-10 clear tasks max'), and 'Best Practices' ('Max 10 tasks... Each task verifiable') — and 'When to Use' repeats the frontmatter description. The table format is efficient, but whole-section duplication means it could be meaningfully tightened.

3 / 5

Actionability

Concrete contrast pairs like '"Add authentication"' → '"Install next-auth, create /api/auth/[...nextauth].ts"', '"Run npx create-next-app"', and '"curl localhost:3000/api/users returns 200"' give mostly executable guidance. Minor gaps: the project-type script table references scripts (ux_audit.py, security_scan.py) that have no corresponding files in the bundle.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The body presents principles rather than a sequenced authoring workflow, and contains an internal contradiction: 'Logical Ordering' mandates '**Phase X: Verification is always LAST**' while the Plan Structure section says 'No phases, no sub-sections unless truly needed.' Per-task verification checkpoints exist ('→ Verify: [How to check]') but the plan-creation process itself lacks ordered steps or checkpoints.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The ~145-line body is well-sectioned with clear headers, contrast tables, and a plan template, with no nested or buried references — matching good single-file organization. It does not qualify for the simple-skill exception (under 50 lines), and the script-selection table references files absent from the bundle, keeping it below a 5.

4 / 5

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14

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20

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Description

80%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description that explicitly covers what the skill does and when to use it, in third person, with good natural trigger terms. Its main weakness is breadth: 'any multi-step work' invites overlap with general implementation skills and slightly dilutes an otherwise distinct planning niche.

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Specificity

'Structured task planning with clear breakdowns, dependencies, and verification criteria' names the domain and lists several concrete plan components, matching the 'lists several specific actions; minor gaps' anchor. It falls short of 5 because these are attributes of a plan rather than a comprehensive set of concrete actions.

4 / 5

Completeness

It clearly answers both questions: the 'what' is 'Structured task planning with clear breakdowns, dependencies, and verification criteria' and the 'when' is the explicit trigger clause 'Use when implementing features, refactoring, or any multi-step work.' — concrete trigger phrases matching the top anchor.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

'Use when implementing features, refactoring, or any multi-step work' plus 'planning' provides good natural keyword coverage users would actually say. It misses common synonyms like 'break down this task', 'roadmap', or 'todo list', keeping it below the comprehensive-synonyms anchor.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The planning niche ('task planning', 'breakdowns', 'dependencies', 'verification criteria') is somewhat specific, but 'any multi-step work' is broad enough that most development requests could match it, creating overlap risk with general coding and implementation skills — matching 'somewhat specific but could still overlap with similar skills'.

3 / 5

Total

16

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20

Passed

Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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Total

15

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16

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Repository

administrakt0r/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills

Path

plugins/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills/skills/plan-writing/SKILL.md

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