review-plan

Skill: Review Plan

This skill provides an independent quality gate for plans created via create-plan.

A fresh reviewer (with no authoring context) evaluates the plan against structured criteria. The review is persisted as a plan artifact for traceability.

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When to Use

Use this skill when:

• A plan has been created via create-plan and you want to validate it before proceeding.
• You want a second opinion on plan quality (scope clarity, DoD, testing strategy, etc.).
• The user explicitly requests a plan review.

Do not use this skill to:

• Review implementation plans (use review-implementation-plan).
• Review completed implementations (use review-implementation).
• Fix or rewrite the plan (the reviewer only reports findings; the primary decides how to act).

Review Focus

The default priority is the smallest complete scope: confirm that requested outcomes are covered and that no phase or material deliverable is unauthorized, unnecessary, or needlessly separate. Inspect the relevant plan elements, but record only evidence-backed exceptions. The primary may add a focus via {{focus}}.

Review posture

Detect existing gold-plating without becoming an adversarial reviewer. A scope-reduction finding must identify a concrete planned item and show missing authorization, missing present necessity, or a smaller path that remains complete: the requested behavior must still work, affected real paths must still integrate, and applicable existing invariants must be preserved. Scope discipline is not permission to omit necessary work. Do not invent requirements, ideal architectures, hardening, infrastructure, or findings. Zero findings remains valid.

DoD wording, testing, references, documentation, and other formal criteria are not checklist obligations. Report them only when a concrete defect would block or misdirect execution.

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Execution Model

Roles

• Primary (maintainer)
  • Invokes the review skill.
  • Delegates the review to delegate-strong (default) or general (for same-model perspective).
  • Receives the review summary and decides on follow-up actions.
  • Updates the plan via update-plan if findings require changes.