daily-plan

Execution mode

Run inline in the current conversation by default, so this work can see what the user has already discussed, decided, or settled this session. Do not fork merely because this skill was selected. Only run in the background when the user explicitly asks for a background run or the host has already obtained a specific background-work approval for this run.

Delegated gathering (large-vault scaling)

This skill stays inline as described above: it keeps session awareness, it asks the user the questions, and it owns every interactive step. What it does NOT do inline is the bulk read-gathering, which on a mature vault (hundreds of notes, thousands of indexed messages, a live calendar and multiple integrations) can be large enough to exhaust the main conversation before the useful work starts.

So the gathering phase is delegated to one general-purpose subagent via the Agent tool, using the self-contained prompt in this skill's AGENT_INSTRUCTIONS.md:

1. Read .agents/skills/daily-plan/AGENT_INSTRUCTIONS.md.
2. Substitute its placeholders ({{TARGET_DATE}}, {{TARGET_DATE_PLUS_1}}, {{DAY_NAME}}, {{MONTH}}, {{DD}}).
3. Call the Agent tool with subagent_type: "general-purpose", model: "sonnet", that prompt, and a short description. The brief is mechanical gathering, so it runs on the fast tier declared by this skill's model_routing.steps.data-gathering; the judgement calls stay in this conversation on the default model.
4. Verify it wrote the draft plan to the resolved daily-plan folder (see Daily plan folder), then run the remaining interactive steps from its findings and present the plan.
5. Close out every <!-- NEEDS TASK --> line in the draft. The subagent never creates tasks, so a focus candidate with no existing task is written without a checkbox and marked. For each one: confirm it with the user per Step 6, create the task with create_task, then rewrite that line as a - [ ] checkbox carrying the returned ^task-YYYYMMDD-XXX anchor and remove the marker. If the user declines, remove the marker and leave the line checkbox-free. Never leave the marker in the saved plan, and never turn one of these lines into a checkbox without an anchor — an anchorless checkbox is invisible to completion sync forever (Step 6).