What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps teams convert a feature specification into a structured implementation plan with research, design artifacts, and validation guidance. It reduces ambiguity during project planning by enforcing a repeatable workflow that captures technical context, constraints, and delivery artifacts before coding begins.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Plan workflow orchestration: Runs a defined planning sequence that loads the feature spec, constitution, and plan template, then produces implementation-ready design outputs.
- Research and clarification management: Identifies unknowns in the technical context, resolves them through research tasks, and records decisions with rationale and alternatives.
- Design artifact generation: Produces data-model.md, contract documentation, quickstart.md, and updates the agent context to reference the generated plan.
- Hook-aware execution: Detects optional and mandatory pre-plan and post-plan extension hooks from the project configuration and dispatches them according to explicit rules.
- Use Case: A software team using a spec-kit repository can activate this Skill to transform a drafted feature spec into a branch-specific implementation plan with architecture notes, contracts, and a validation guide for downstream engineering work.
Quick Start
Ask the AI to run the speckit-plan skill for your current feature so it generates the implementation plan, research notes, design artifacts, and completion report.