speckit-plan

Automating implementation planning involves applying a plan template to generate design artifacts like research.md, data-model.md, contracts/, and quickstart.md. This process validates inputs, resolves uncertainties, and enforces governance gates throughout all planning phases.

A spec-kit planning workflow transforms a plan template into a complete set of design artifacts within a structured project. You need it when reducing manual coordination and ensuring consistency across research, data models, contracts, and quickstart documentation.

To generate design artifacts from a plan template, run the planning workflow from your repository root. It processes the template to produce research.md, data-model.md, contracts/, and quickstart.md while updating the agent context in CLAUDE.md.

Yes, the planning workflow supports custom extension hooks for artifact generation. It detects and executes both optional and mandatory extension hooks before and after the planning phases to integrate custom logic into the design process.

You can update agent context and plan references in CLAUDE.md automatically by executing the end-to-end planning workflow. The process handles agent context updates natively after generating the design artifacts.

The automated artifact generation operates strictly within a spec-kit project structure and requires valid inputs. It enforces governance gates throughout planning, meaning unresolved uncertainties or failed pre-execution checks will halt the workflow to prevent invalid artifact creation.