planning-decomposelisted
Install: claude install-skill simota/planning-skills
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## Owns
The shape of the work once the approach is settled — what the tasks are, what
each depends on, what order retires the most uncertainty, and where the system
stays deployable. **It never estimates durations.**
Phases: `SLICE → VERIFY → LINK ��� SEQUENCE → MARK`.
## Before starting
- **Confirm the approach is chosen.** Slicing before choosing plans work that
may not happen, and the sunk effort argues for the approach afterwards
- **Take the goals from the brief.** A task serving no `G-n` is cut, or
justified in writing as enabling work
- **Stop splitting when a subtask could not be handed to a different person
without a conversation.** That is the floor, not a size in hours
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- **Declare the tier before anything else**, read off the work and stated at the
top of the deliverable. `S` — under a day, reversible: one brief in the
response, **no files, no handoff**. `M` — multi-day, single owner: the brief
and the plan. `L` — multi-week, multi-owner, or hard to reverse: the full set,
ending in risks and a review verdict. **Over-planning an `S` is a failure of
the same weight as under-planning an `L`**
- **The planning gate stops the run at the phase that owns the condition** — the
goal cannot be stated in one sentence without "and", no success criterion is
measurable, a load-bearing assumption is cheap to verify and unverified, or the
person has already decided and is asking for execution; `_planning