plan-frontend

What problem does it solve?

DEPRECATED — thin alias for /plan --scope=frontend. The unified /plan skill auto-detects scope (backend / frontend / full-stack) and applies the right principle sets without you having to choose. Existing trigger words still route here for muscle memory; this just delegates.

Use when the user asks to plan, design, or build frontend features — including UI components, pages, layouts, user flows, modals, forms, or visual changes. Auto-invokes on: design the UI for, plan the user flow, add a new view, build a component, improve the UX of, create a form for, or redesign the layout.

Accepts arguments describing the task: plan-frontend redesign the cellar grid view

Core Features & Use Cases

This skill is a backward-compatibility shim. The unified /plan replaces both plan-frontend and plan-backend, with scope detection in Phase 0 and lazy reference loading so per-invocation token cost is the same as before — and the output is one consolidated plan instead of two that need merging.

What to do: invoke /plan (or pass the same arguments here — they forward). The unified skill will detect scope as frontend based on:

• Files cited in the task (components, pages, layouts, styles, forms)
• Phrasing ("UI", "UX", "modal", "form", "layout", "design", "view", "page")
• An explicit --scope=frontend flag

If you genuinely want frontend-only planning regardless of detection, pass --scope=frontend to /plan (or invoke this alias — it injects the flag).

Why deprecated: for cross-stack work, plan-frontend + plan-backend produced two separate plans that had to be merged manually, and the child plans drifted from the merged file. The unified /plan produces one document for one or both stacks, which is what /audit-plan, /audit-code, /ux-lock verify, and /ship all consume anyway.

Schedule: kept as an alias indefinitely so muscle memory + existing docs/links still work. Do NOT add new content to this file — edit skills/plan/SKILL.md instead.

Quick Start

Invoke the unified /plan with a frontend task, e.g., redesign the cellar grid view