executing-plans

Executing Plans

Overview

Load plan, review critically, execute all tasks, report when complete.

Announce at start: "I'm using the executing-plans skill to implement this plan."

Note: Tell your human partner that this system works much better with access to subagents (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI, and Gemini CLI all qualify). If subagents are available, use beads-superpowers:subagent-driven-development instead of this skill.

The Process

Step 1: Load and Review Plan

1. Ensure an isolated workspace first — use the beads-superpowers:using-git-worktrees skill.

2. Read plan file

3. Review critically - identify any questions or concerns about the plan

4. If concerns: Raise them with your human partner before starting

5. If no concerns: Create epic bead and child beads for each task, then proceed

   Create the epic, then import the child tasks as JSONL:

   # 1. Create the epic (→ note its id):
   bd create "Epic: <plan-name>" -t epic -p 2 -d "<goal>
   

Success Criteria

• <measurable outcome from the plan's Goal>"

  2. Author the tasks as JSONL — one issue per line, id OMITTED (auto-assigned;

  a supplied colliding id would overwrite that bead and reset its omitted fields).

  Parent each to the epic; embed the bd lint-required '## Acceptance Criteria' in

  'description' (or the 'acceptance_criteria' field). Read bd import --help on

  first use; bd export <id> round-trips a real bead as a schema template.

  cat <<'EOF' | bd import - {"title":"Task 1: ","issue_type":"task","priority":2,"description":"\n\n## Acceptance Criteria\n- ","dependencies":[{"depends_on_id":"","type":"parent-child"}]} {"title":"Task 2: ","issue_type":"task","priority":2,"description":"\n\n## Acceptance Criteria\n- ","dependencies":[{"depends_on_id":"","type":"parent-child"}]} EOF

  
  Confirm the import output shows no `Skipped dependency` (a dep to a missing target is skipped, not rolled back). `bd lint` requires `## Success Criteria` in the epic's description and `## Acceptance Criteria` in each task's — embed them as above.