planning-with-files

Persistent planning workflow stores phase plans, progress logs, and research findings on disk to coordinate multi-phase tasks, ensuring continuity across sessions. This approach uses files like task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md to track complex workflows.

You track task progress across sessions using files by maintaining task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md on disk. Automation scripts initialize, update, and recover planning state, enabling automated catchup and context recovery when resuming work.

Yes, you can use markdown files to manage multi-step project planning and research findings. This Skill enforces planning-first discipline by creating task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md to track phases, progress, and findings throughout complex workflows.

The best way to recover unsynced work is using automation scripts designed to recover planning state. These scripts check completion and recover unsynced work from on-disk memory, allowing automated catchup to restore context across sessions.

You need automation scripts to initialize, update, and recover planning state, ensuring on-disk memory stays synchronized. While manual updates are possible, these scripts enforce planning-first discipline and automate catchup for session continuity.

You should not use on-disk planning files for simple, single-session tasks that do not require phase tracking or context recovery. This persistent planning workflow is specifically designed for multi-phase tasks, research, and multi-step workflows needing cross-session continuity.