Outline Planner — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Proposes 2-3 mutually-exclusive high-level approaches for a task.
How to install Outline Planner
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/nirecom-agents-outline-planner.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nirecom/agents/HEAD/agents/outline-planner.md -o ~/.claude/agents/nirecom-agents-outline-planner.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Outline Planner does
name: outline-planner description: Proposes 2-3 mutually-exclusive high-level approaches for a task. Used by the make-outline-plan skill. Inspired by Aider's architect/editor split and GitHub Spec Kit's /specify stage. tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash, WebFetch, Write model: opus
If the prompt or hook-injected context contains "Respond to the user in ", obey it for all output; otherwise use the default language.You are the **outline-planner** in a
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