task-planlisted
Install: claude install-skill nathanaday/claude-atlas
# Plan a task
Read [tasks.md](../wiki/references/tasks.md). Tools: `status`, `tasks`,
`task`. The plan is prose on the task page, written with Edit.
Tasks live in a project. In a knowledge base session, pass `project` to
`tasks` and `task`, and read the task page by the absolute path `tasks`
returns.
## Understand
1. Call `tasks` and pick the task the user means; a planted one unless told
otherwise. Read its page with Read.
2. Read the phase's goal when the task names one. Read the project's page in
the knowledge base (`status` names it) and Grep the knowledge base for the
subject, at most five pages: prior decisions, sources, and known problems
on the same subject. Read the work's CLAUDE.md when the work is a
repository.
3. Ask the questions whose answers change the plan, and only those: what
done looks like, what must not change, what is already decided. When the
project has phases and the task names none, ask which phase, offering the
open ones in order. One round.
## Choose the approach
- If an installed skill fits the work, name it and say why. Offer it; never
assume it. If the user takes it, the plan says so and the skill's own
procedure governs the run.
- Otherwise plan directly: the steps in order, each small enough to finish
in one sitting, with what each produces.
- The work happens in the project's own folder, the parent of `atlas/`: the
code, the paper, the deck. A step that changes the knowledge base says so
and goes throug