speckit-plan

Automating project planning to generate design artifacts requires a workflow that processes a plan template to produce research.md, data-model.md, contracts, and quickstart.md. This skill executes that workflow end-to-end with deterministic script enforcement and gating hooks.

A plan template workflow standardizes implementation planning by enforcing pre-plan and post-plan extension hooks before generating design artifacts. You need this approach when manual planning effort becomes inconsistent and you require repeatable, deterministic artifact generation across project iterations.

Generating research.md and quickstart documentation involves loading project context into a structured .specify plan template, resolving clarifications, and executing deterministic scripts. This skill automates that multi-phase process to output the required design artifacts and update agent context.

Yes, deterministic scripts in your project are required for plan template artifact generation. The workflow enforces deterministic execution of plan steps, applying pre- and post-plan extension hooks to ensure repeatable results when generating design artifacts like data-model.md and contracts.

Yes, you can enforce gating and extension hooks during the implementation planning workflow. The skill applies pre-plan and post-plan extension hooks with deterministic execution to control the flow of artifact generation and ensure all plan steps meet required checkpoints.

Automating design artifact generation with a plan template requires a project structured with a .specify template and deterministic execution scripts. It cannot operate without these predefined structures, meaning ad-hoc or unstructured project planning contexts will not support the enforced gating and artifact generation.