Writing Plans

by microsoft

Writing Plans is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in FluidFramework.

4.9K stars583 forkson microsoft/FluidFrameworkAdded 2026/07/19Repository updated 2026/08/06

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Install Writing Plans

Copy Writing Plans into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/FluidFramework/tree/main/.agency/plugins/nori/skills/writing-plans ~/.claude/skills/writing-plans

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/FluidFramework.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .agency/plugins/nori/skills/writing-plans/SKILL.md in microsoft/FluidFramework
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/writing-plans
Collection: One of 31 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Writing Plans does

Creates comprehensive implementation plans with exact file paths, complete code examples, and verification steps for engineers with no codebase context. Use when design is complete to produce bite-sized, actionable tasks.

Writing Plans is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Writing Plans comes from a repository tagged collaboration, crdt, datastructure, distributed and fluid.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Read the 'Guidelines'.
Create a comprehensive plan that a senior engineer can follow. Any absolute paths in your plan MUST take into account any worktrees that may have been created
Think about backwards compability. Add any notes to the plan.
Think about edge cases. Add them to the plan.
Think about questions or areas that require clarity. Add them to the plan.
Emphasize how you will test your plan.
Present plan to user.

Guidelines

Overview

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Writing Plans

What else does microsoft publish alongside Writing Plans?
Writing Plans is one of 31 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/FluidFramework, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Changes Review, Brainstorming and Building UI/UX. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Writing Plans does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/FluidFramework page.
How does Writing Plans compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Writing Plans ranks #511 by stars among the 3670 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Writing Plans against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.