speckit-plan

Automating spec-kit planning requires orchestrating a workflow that reads a plan template and generates design artifacts. This process automatically produces research.md, data-model.md, contracts, and quickstart.md while enforcing pre- and post-execution hook checks.

A spec-kit planning workflow is a structured, multi-phase process for generating design artifacts within a .specify directory. You need it when building spec-driven tooling that requires repeatable, auditable planning cycles with clear artifact outputs and gate validation.

You cannot use this orchestration without the .specify directory structure. The workflow explicitly applies to spec-kit projects that follow this directory layout to manage automated planning, agent-context updates, and structured outputs across multiple execution phases.

Enforcing pre-execution checks and gate evaluation is handled automatically by the orchestration workflow. It validates gates to ensure design constraints are met, handles unknowns, performs constitution checks, and processes extension hooks before generating final artifacts.

Yes, handling unknowns and performing constitution checks are built-in features of the multi-phase execution workflow. These structural validations run alongside gate evaluations to ensure all design constraints are met before producing the final structured outputs.