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+---
+name: plan
+description: >
+  Turn a request into an objective-oriented plan and hand it to the robot skill
+  for autonomous execution. Trigger on /plan or when the operator asks for a
+  plan, a breakdown, or a strategy for a task before any work starts. Portable
+  across projects.
+---
+
+Produce a plan whose every item is an outcome with a check, then execute it
+autonomously. A plan that lists activities instead of objectives cannot be
+verified, and an unverifiable plan cannot be handed to a robot.
+
+## Procedure
+
+1. **Interview first.** Open every plan with the `active-listening` skill: ask
+   until scope, constraints, success criteria, and the operator-only facts are
+   all pinned, then reflect the understanding back. This is the only point in
+   the run where questions are allowed, so leave nothing open here.
+2. **Pin the objective.** State the end state in one sentence, as a condition
+   that is either true or false, never as an activity. Name the command or
+   observation that proves it.
+3. **Inspect before decomposing.** Read the code, config, tests, and history the
+   objective touches. Every plan item must rest on something you have seen, not
+   on an assumption about how the project works.
+4. **Decompose into sub-objectives.** Each item gets: the outcome it reaches,
+   the verification that proves it, and the items it depends on. Split an item
+   whenever it needs more than one verification. Order by dependency and mark
+   the items that are independent, so they can run in parallel.
+5. **Resolve the open decisions now.** Any root cause, design choice, or
+   trade-off the plan rests on gets settled before execution, escalating to the
+   `dialectic` skill where being wrong is expensive. The robot does not ask, so
+   an unresolved decision becomes a guess at runtime.
+6. **Record the plan as a todo list.** Write the sub-objectives into the
+   harness's own todo tracking, one entry per item, phrased as the outcome. Keep
+   a plan file only when the operator asks for one.
+7. **Present it and wait.** Show the objective, the ordered sub-objectives with
+   their verifications, what is deliberately out of scope, and the assumptions
+   the plan rests on. Stop here: the plan is the deliverable of this step.
+8. **Implement it statically, in full.** On the operator's go, write every code,
+   config, test, and doc change the plan calls for, across all sub-objectives,
+   before running anything that needs live infrastructure. Verify statically:
+   read the diff, run the linters, the unit tests, and whatever dry-run or
+   syntax check the project offers. This step ends only when the whole plan
+   exists on disk, with no sub-objective left unwritten.
+9. **Then iterate under `robot`.** With the static implementation complete,
+   invoke the `robot` skill with the objective as its goal for the dynamic part:
+   run, deploy, observe, fix, repeat until every verification passes. It drives
+   the loop without check-ins, verifies each outcome instead of assuming it, and
+   reports the items that fall outside its clearance for the operator to run.
+
+## Rules
+
+- One objective per item, in outcome form: "endpoint returns 200 for an expired
+  token", not "fix the auth middleware".
+- No item without a verification. If you cannot name what proves it, the item is
+  still a wish, not a plan.
+- Plan only what the request covers. Speculative future-proofing, refactors
+  nobody asked for, and abstractions with one caller belong in the out-of-scope
+  list, not in the plan.
+- Static before dynamic: never start the robot loop on a half-written plan. A
+  deploy that fails on code you had not written yet costs a full cycle and
+  proves nothing.
+- Re-plan on contradicted evidence: when execution disproves an assumption the
+  plan rests on, revise the plan instead of forcing the original steps through.
+- Cite `file:line` for every claim about the current state of the code.