Executing Plans
This skill enables AI agents to systematically execute detailed plans by processing tasks in batches with integrated review checkpoints. It significantly enhances the accuracy and efficiency of task execution, allowing for human intervention and guidance at critical junctures. This approach minimizes errors and optimizes the overall workflow, ensuring robust and controlled plan implementation.
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1 组Without this skill, users or developers often execute complex plans unsystematically, leading to high error rates due to misunderstandings or skipped verifications. Tasks might be pushed forward blindly, only to discover critical issues late in the process, resulting in significant rework and wasted time, making project progress difficult to manage.
This skill ensures that every step of a plan is verified and confirmed by a human through batch execution and integrated review checkpoints. It significantly reduces task execution error rates and rework time, while improving overall project quality. Users can provide feedback at critical junctures, ensuring correct direction and more efficiently completing complex tasks.
Executing Plans
Overview
Load plan, review critically, execute tasks in batches, report for review between batches.
Core principle: Batch execution with checkpoints for architect review.
Announce at start: "I'm using the Executing Plans skill to implement this plan."
The Process
Step 1: Load and Review Plan
- Read plan file
- Review critically - identify any questions or concerns about the plan
- If concerns: Raise them with your human partner before starting
- If no concerns: Create TodoWrite and proceed
Step 2: Execute Batch
Default: First 3 tasks
For each task:
- Mark as in_progress
- Follow each step exactly (plan has bite-sized steps)
- Run verifications as specified
- Mark as completed
Step 3: Report
When batch complete:
- Show what was implemented
- Show verification output
- Say: "Ready for feedback."
Step 4: Continue
Based on feedback:
- Apply changes if needed
- Execute next batch
- Repeat until complete
Step 5: Complete Development
After all tasks complete and verified:
- Announce: "I'm using the Finishing a Development Branch skill to complete this work."
- Switch to skills/collaboration/finishing-a-development-branch
- Follow that skill to verify tests, present options, execute choice
When to Stop and Ask for Help
STOP executing immediately when:
- Hit a blocker mid-batch (missing dependency, test fails, instruction unclear)
- Plan has critical gaps preventing starting
- You don't understand an instruction
- Verification fails repeatedly
Ask for clarification rather than guessing.
When to Revisit Earlier Steps
Return to Review (Step 1) when:
- Partner updates the plan based on your feedback
- Fundamental approach needs rethinking
Don't force through blockers - stop and ask.
Remember
- Review plan critically first
- Follow plan steps exactly
- Don't skip verifications
- Reference skills when plan says to
- Between batches: just report and wait
- Stop when blocked, don't guess
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