plan-critique-loop

Plan Critique Loop (up to 3 iterations)

Input: an existing plan doc path (for example: plan/my-feature.md).

Preconditions

• Confirm you are in the intended repo: git rev-parse --show-toplevel
• Confirm the plan doc exists: test -f <plan-doc-path>
• Ensure git can create commits before running the loop (user.name/user.email configured).
• Do not start implementation in this skill; only critique and revise the plan.
• Ensure both CLIs are available (codex and claude) because critic/responder must be different vendors.

Expected runtime

Typically runs 15–45 minutes, but allow at least 120 minutes.

Do not interrupt/restart the subagent if it looks stuck. The loop script owns stuck/timeout handling and will exit on its own when it completes or when --timeout is reached. Prefer watching the periodic heartbeat output (--heartbeat-seconds) instead of tailing logs.

If you use --progress-log, do not tail -f it into the main context unless you must debug; prefer checking progress via log line counts (for example: wc -l <progress-log>) and/or the heartbeat counters.

Why Claude sometimes looked “stuck”

Claude Code print mode can be silent in --output-format text until it finishes (including during tool work). This repo defaults Claude subprocesses to --output-format stream-json --include-partial-messages so the wrapper sees measurable progress and inactivity timeouts mainly trigger on true hangs.

Loop

Run the critique loop script:

resolve_skill_dir() {
  local name="$1"
  local repo_root=""
  repo_root="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd)"

  local candidates=(
    "$repo_root/.agents/skills/$name"
    "$repo_root/.claude/skills/$name"
    "$HOME/.agents/skills/$name"
    "$HOME/.codex/skills/$name"
    "$HOME/.claude/skills/$name"
  )

  for d in "${candidates[@]}"; do
    if [[ -d "$d" ]]; then
      echo "$d"
      return 0
    fi
  done

  echo "Error: skill '$name' not found in repo-scoped or user-scoped skill dirs." >&2
  return 1
}

PLAN_CRITIQUE_LOOP_SKILL_DIR="$(resolve_skill_dir plan-critique-loop)"
python3 "$PLAN_CRITIQUE_LOOP_SKILL_DIR/scripts/run_critique_loop.py" <plan-doc-path>