Writing Plans

Writing Plans is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by xintaofei in codeg.

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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/xintaofei/codeg/tree/main/src-tauri/experts/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/xintaofei/codeg.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: src-tauri/experts/skills/writing-plans/SKILL.md in xintaofei/codeg
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/writing-plans
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Writing Plans does

Writing Plans turns specs and requirements into detailed, task-by-task implementation plans for coding agents. Use it before touching code to decompose work into bite-sized TDD steps with exact files, tests, and commits.

Writing Plans is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Writing Plans comes from a repository tagged acp, agent, claude-code, cline and code-generation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Writing Plans

Overview

Write comprehensive implementation plans assuming the engineer has zero context for our codebase and questionable taste. Document everything they need to know: which files to touch for each task, code, testing, docs they might need to check, how to test it. Give them the whole plan as bite-sized tasks. DRY. YAGNI. TDD. Frequent commits.

Assume they are a skilled developer, but know almost nothing about our toolset or problem domain. Assume they don't know good test design very well.

Announce at start: "I'm using the writing-plans skill to create the implementation plan."

Context: If working in an isolated worktree, it should have been created via the superpowers:using-git-worktrees skill at execution time.

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

Frequently asked about Writing Plans

What else does xintaofei publish alongside Writing Plans?
Writing Plans is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from xintaofei/codeg, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Brainstorming, Citation Management and Code Review Reception. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Writing Plans does, and is maintained by xintaofei in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the xintaofei/codeg page.
How does Writing Plans compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Writing Plans ranks #749 by stars among the 2451 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.