Does this skill help with testing?

Yes. It distinguishes between infrastructure and functionality tasks, enforcing TDD for logic and operational verification for scaffolding, while following your project's existing testing patterns.

Can it handle external libraries and APIs?

Absolutely. It uses a tiered research approach, querying official documentation or even remote source code to ensure integration tasks are based on the latest API specs and best practices.

What is the 8-phase limit for implementation plans?

To ensure accuracy and prevent model hallucination or plan drift, the skill limits plans to 8 phases. Larger designs are broken into multiple, sequential implementation documents.

How does the skill ensure the plan matches my current code?

The skill dispatches a codebase-investigator sub-agent to verify every file path and dependency mentioned in the design before generating tasks, ensuring the plan reflects reality.

Implementation Plan Architect

Name: Implementation Plan Architect
Author: ed3dai

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Generates granular, step-by-step implementation plans from high-level designs to ensure precise engineering execution with zero context.

The writing-implementation-plans skill bridges the gap between abstract architectural design and concrete code execution. It transforms high-level designs into detailed, bite-sized tasks including exact file paths, verified code examples, and explicit verification steps. By utilizing specialized sub-agents for codebase investigation and external dependency research, it ensures that every plan is grounded in the current state of your repository. This skill is ideal for teams looking to standardize their implementation workflow, reduce technical debt through DRY and YAGNI principles, and enable developers to work effectively in unfamiliar domains.

Key Features

01Automated codebase state verification using investigator sub-agents

02Standardized documentation output for version-controlled implementation logs

03Granular task breakdown with '2-5 minute' implementation steps

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05Strict 8-phase scope management to maintain plan focus and quality

06Tiered external dependency research for APIs and library internals

Use Cases

01Breaking down large architectural designs into small, low-risk, and testable commits

02Validating design assumptions against the current codebase before writing a single line of code

03Onboarding developers to complex features by providing a detailed, zero-context roadmap

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add ed3dai/ed3d-plugins-testing writing-implementation-plans

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