make-plan — Phased Implementation Planner
Turns a feature request into a phased, documentation-grounded implementation plan that survives fresh chat contexts.
Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 94,479⑂ 8,352AI score 7/10Last updated: Sep 22, 2026
What it does
- Puts Claude in an orchestrator role and breaks the request into phases that can each be executed in a new session.
- Phase 0 is always Documentation Discovery: subagents read real docs, examples and existing patterns to produce an "Allowed APIs" list plus anti-patterns to avoid.
- Enforces a subagent reporting contract — sources consulted, exact API signatures, exact file paths, copy-ready snippet locations, confidence and known gaps. Reports without sources are rejected and redeployed.
- Every phase specifies what to build, which docs (file:line) to copy from, a verification checklist, and explicit "do not do this" guards.
- A final verification phase re-checks docs alignment, greps for bad patterns, and runs tests.
Who it's for
- Developers running long, multi-session tasks who keep losing context between chats.
- Anyone burned by an agent inventing API methods or undocumented parameters.
- Teams that need a handoff-ready plan document with proof steps attached.
Example uses
- "Plan the migration of our billing module to SDK v2" → Phase 0 reads the SDK docs, lists only methods that actually exist, then emits per-phase tasks with grep-based verification.
- "Plan adding Google sign-in" → cites existing auth patterns by file and line range and frames tasks as "copy this pattern" instead of "rewrite it".
- When the work starts from a bug backlog, run
oh-my-issuesfirst to cluster issues into design docs, then use make-plan on one slice.
· · · Install guide · · ·
Try it now, no install
Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.
Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thedotmack/claude-mem/HEAD/openclaw/skills/make-plan/SKILL.md What I want: (describe your task here)
If Claude can't open the link, open it yourself and paste the contents instead.
↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.
Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
- Download the ZIP with the button below.
- In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
- Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
Install in Claude Code
Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code
Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart. Copy the openclaw/skills/make-plan folder from the GitHub repo thedotmack/claude-mem into my ~/.claude/skills/make-plan/. When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.
Install with a command instead
git clone https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem.git /tmp/claude-mem && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/make-plan && cp -r /tmp/claude-mem/openclaw/skills/make-plan/* ~/.claude/skills/make-plan/⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.
- Open a terminal.
- Create the skills folder:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills - Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem.git /tmp/claude-mem - Copy just this skill:
cp -r /tmp/claude-mem/openclaw/skills/make-plan ~/.claude/skills/ - (Recommended) copy the sibling skill it references:
cp -r /tmp/claude-mem/openclaw/skills/oh-my-issues ~/.claude/skills/ 2>/dev/null - Restart Claude Code and ask something like "make a plan for implementing X" to trigger it.
- Verify:
ls ~/.claude/skills/make-plan/SKILL.md
View source on GitHub ↗License: Apache-2.0