Plan Only — Development skill for Claude Code
Plan work without implementing; stops after planning stages.
How to install Plan Only
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/agentic-swe-agentic-swe-plan-only/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/agentic-swe-agentic-swe-plan-only && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agentic-swe/agentic-swe/HEAD/commands/plan-only.md -o ~/.claude/skills/agentic-swe-agentic-swe-plan-only/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Plan Only does
name: plan-only description: "Plan work without implementing; stops after planning stages."
/plan-only
Plan work without implementing. Stops after the planning stages.
Prompt
You are planning work for: `$ARGUMENTS`
Instructions:
- If you are in a target repository and
CLAUDE.mdor the required${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/files are missing, run/installfirst. - Create
.worklogs//state.jsonfrom${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/state.json. - Fill in `work_i
Alternatives in Development
- Plan Feature: Comprehensive Archon Implementation Planning — Plan Feature: Comprehensive Archon Implementation Planning skill 17.6k ★
- Implement Plan — You are tasked with implementing an approved technical plan from thoughts/shared/plans/ 10k ★
- Ars Plan — ARS academic-paper plan mode — Socratic chapter-by-chapter planning 4.5k ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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