surf-plan-skill

Execution planning for architectural changes requires reading project files first, then performing fresh web research with citations to ground decisions and outputting a Markdown plan file that reduces stale assumptions and rework.

Planning multi-file features involves a fixed multi-phase workflow that enforces fresh targeted web research before asking clarifying questions, ensuring scope and architecture match current production best practices with cited sources.

Yes, generating a cited Markdown plan requires a web search tool dependency to perform the mandatory baseline and targeted searches that provide citations for every key architectural and security decision before writing the plan.

Codebase discovery works by reading relevant project files first to identify existing patterns and constraints, which grounds subsequent web research and ensures security and performance decisions fit the specific project.

Yes, this workflow applies to non-trivial implementation work including research-driven design requests, enforcing fresh targeted web searches before clarifying questions to align scope and architecture with current best practices.

The agent asks up to five clarifying questions during architectural planning, each preceded by fresh targeted research, to ensure the execution plan matches current best practices and eliminates ambiguous scope assumptions.