plan

# /parml:plan — decide where to sit on the frontier Getting _onto_ the frontier is technical. Choosing _where on it_ to sit is not, and it is not the agent's decision. This skill frames the choice, asks it once, records the answer, and orders the work around it. ## First action, always ```bash ls -la ./.parml/ 2>/dev/null ``` Read `findings.md` if present. If it is absent, ask whether to run `/parml:audit` first — planning against unenumerated options produces a plan for the wrong problem. Planning without an audit is legitimate when the operator already knows the candidate changes; say which case you are in. If `frontier.md` exists, this is a **revision**. Read it, restate the recorded decision, and change it deliberately with a `Supersedes` line — never silently. ## Hard rules 1. **The operating point is asked, not assumed.** The objective form, the quality floor, and the non-negotiables are the operator's to state. Use `AskUserQuestion` once, with real options and honest downsides — not a questionnaire, and not a menu of six unranked choices. 2. **Present a decision as a brief.** One recommendation with its reason first, then each alternative with an honest upside _and_ downside. An agent that lists options without ranking them has moved the work, not done it. 3. **Never bank anything below `mechanism`.** `analogy` and `folklore` items may enter the plan only as _measurements to run_, never as changes to make. 4. **No plan without a noise floor.** ...