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Phased Implementation Planner (make-plan)

Turns a feature request into a phased, doc-grounded implementation plan that survives fresh chat contexts.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 92,898⑂ 8,168AI score 7/10Last updated: Sep 1, 2026

What it does

  • Puts Claude in an orchestrator role: it authors the plan while subagents do fact-gathering (docs, signatures, grep results).
  • Phase 0 is always documentation discovery — subagents read real docs and existing patterns and produce an "Allowed APIs" list with citations, plus anti-patterns (methods that don't actually exist, deprecated params).
  • Enforces a subagent reporting contract: sources consulted, exact API names/signatures and file paths, copy-ready snippet locations, confidence note and known gaps. Source-less conclusions are rejected and redeployed.
  • Every implementation phase carries: what to build (framed as copy from docs, not "transform the old code"), doc references with file/line, a verification checklist (tests, grep), and anti-pattern guards.
  • A final verification phase confirms the code matches the docs, greps for bad patterns, and runs tests.

Who it's for

  • Developers splitting long work across multiple sessions who keep losing context.
  • Anyone tired of the model inventing API methods or parameters.
  • Tech leads who want a reviewable plan document before implementation starts.

Example uses

  1. "Plan the payment webhook handler" → Phase 0 reads the SDK docs and existing handlers, then phases split into route, signature verification, retry handling, and verification.
  2. "Plan the session API V2 upgrade" → tasks are rewritten as "copy the V2 session pattern from docs/examples.ts:45-60" instead of a vague "migrate existing code".
  3. Take the finished plan, open a brand-new chat, and execute only Phase 1 — each phase is self-contained with its own doc references.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the plugin/skills/make-plan folder from the GitHub repo thedotmack/claude-mem into my ~/.claude/skills/thedotmack-make-plan/.
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem.git /tmp/claude-mem && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/claude-mem/plugin/skills/make-plan ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem.git /tmp/claude-mem
  3. Make sure the skills folder exists: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy just this skill: cp -r /tmp/claude-mem/plugin/skills/make-plan ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify that ~/.claude/skills/make-plan/SKILL.md is present.
  6. Restart Claude Code and ask something like "plan the implementation of this feature" to trigger it.
  7. (Optional) Also copy the oh-my-issues skill from the same repo if you want to plan from a bug/feature backlog.
View source on GitHub ↗License: Apache-2.0