Openplan core
Portable OpenPlan-style Agent Skills for Codex and Claude Code: intent alignment, docs governance, review, handoff, and safe auto workflows.
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Apply OpenPlan philosophy as a platform-neutral agent operating protocol. Use when Codex, Claude Code, or another coding agent must preserve OpenPlan-style principles without depending on project-specific enforcement tools: minimal effective context, human-owned decisions, dispatcher/subagent boundaries, evidence-backed state, separation of roles, authority flow from goal/intent and design to execution, reversible automation, and no silent approval.
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OpenPlan Core
Use this as the base layer for other OpenPlan-style skills. It is deliberately independent of any project-specific enforcement tooling or single agent platform.
Terminology: goal and intent are both valid. Use goal when emphasizing the desired outcome and verification. Use intent when emphasizing the human meaning, motivation, or decision behind that outcome.
Core Invariants
- Minimal effective context: load only what changes the next decision or review.
- Human-owned decisions: agents may suggest and execute, but humans own acceptance, bypass, scope, and tradeoff decisions.
- Externalized state: ground claims in files, diffs, reports, logs, or other durable artifacts, not chat memory.
- Layered authority: goal/intent and design constrain specs/plans; specs/plans constrain execution; execution does not silently rewrite the goal/intent.
- Dual-surface separation: when a project separates design/docs from implementation/code, preserve that separation and do not let execution redefine the source of truth.
- Dispatcher boundary: only the active human-facing coordinator asks the human; subagents report
Human decisions requiredorBLOCKEDinstead. - Role separation: alignment, research, design, implementation, testing, review, recording, gardening, and handoff are different modes even when one agent performs them.
- Evidence before confidence: every important claim needs observable support.
- Reversible automation: prefer actions that can be inspected, interrupted, replayed, or rolled back.
- No silent approval: "no findings" is not approval; it is a scoped review result.
Enforcement Is Optional
Hooks, isolated workspaces, CI checks, and other enforcement layers can strengthen the philosophy, but they are not the philosophy itself. In a Codex or Claude Code skill, keep the invariants as behavior, evidence, and reporting even when enforcement is unavailable.
Composition
Use this skill with:
$openplan-autofor orchestrating automatic/YOLO workflows.$openplan-operatefor session initialization, behavior constraints, and subagent delegation.$openplan-alignfor ambiguity and requirement shaping.$openplan-researchfor bounded evidence gathering before design or execution.$openplan-docs-initfor governed documentation generation setup.$openplan-testfor proportional test evidence and regression proof.$openplan-reviewfor YOLO/auto-mode review.$openplan-handofffor cross-agent or cross-session snapshots.$openplan-html-brieffor temporary human-facing HTML summaries.$openplan-recordfor maintaining memory and documentation as human goal/intent records.$openplan-gardenfor semantic document gardening and goal/intent drift checks.
When another OpenPlan skill conflicts with this one, follow this skill first and report the conflict.
Operating Defaults
- If context is missing, say what is missing instead of filling the gap.
- If a decision belongs to the human, list it under non-decisions.
- If a task is too broad, split by responsibility or artifact.
- If review evidence is weak, lower confidence.
- If automation is running unattended, fail closed with a clear report.
Reference
Read references/principles.md when you need the full checklist.
For Claude Code, use assets/claude-code-command.md as a slash command or prompt seed.