speckit-plan

Automating design artifact generation requires a template-based planning workflow that produces research, data-models, and contracts from predefined structures. You can streamline this process by running the plan command with your feature specification to generate artifacts automatically.

Template-based planning is the process of generating structured design artifacts using predefined templates. With spec-kit, it works by reading your feature specification and automatically producing research, data-models, contracts, and quickstarts within the `.specify/` directory structure.

Yes, you need a spec-kit directory structure to generate project design artifacts using this workflow. The Skill specifically requires a `.specify/` directory in your project to function correctly and store the generated planning outputs.

Yes, you can add custom tasks before or after the implementation planning workflow by using pre-execution and post-execution extension hooks. These extensibility points allow you to inject additional automated tasks during the design artifact generation process.

The best way to manage implementation planning for spec-kit projects is to automate template-based design artifact generation. By leveraging predefined plan templates and extension hooks, you can ensure consistent generation of research, data-models, and contracts without manual effort.

The main limitation of using templates for project planning in spec-kit is strict structural dependency; the workflow only functions within projects utilizing a `.specify/` directory. Additionally, artifact generation is confined to the predefined templates and extension hooks provided.