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Implementation plans bridge design and execution by documenting explicit behavior specifications, edge cases, and step-by-step tasks. They prevent rushed shortcuts and technical debt by enforcing first-principles checks and readiness analysis before development begins.

Defining edge cases and test cases before coding involves creating explicit behavior specifications, boundary conditions, and test outlines. This approach enforces first-principles readiness checks to prevent shortcuts and long-term technical debt during development.

Documenting behavior specifications requires recording desired and undesired behavior, success criteria, and boundary conditions for each feature. This eliminates ambiguity between chosen designs and executable work by providing explicit, testable specifications.

Generating step-by-step development tasks from software architecture involves applying first-principles checks, dependency analysis, and behavior specification. This produces stepwise execution tasks and acceptance criteria that prevent rushed shortcuts and hidden assumptions.

First-principles checks and readiness analysis are needed in implementation plans to enforce deep context gathering and avoid shortcuts. This prevents long-term technical debt by ensuring dependency analysis and hidden assumptions are addressed before executable work begins.

Creating an implementation plan requires a completed solution design because it converts the chosen approach into testable specifications and stepwise execution tasks. Applying it after solution design ensures all behavior specs and tests align with the selected architecture.