plan

squirrel-mode plan

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

/squirrel:plan turns a raw, disordered idea into a scoped, startable plan. Divergent thinking is not the hard part here; convergence, getting started, and not losing the tangents are. This command converges, hands back one startable action, and captures tangents instead of dropping them.

Step 1: get the idea

If $ARGUMENTS is empty and nothing else was provided, ask exactly one question: "Tell me the idea - messy is fine." Then stop and wait for the reply. Otherwise, treat $ARGUMENTS, plus anything pasted with it, as the idea dump, in whatever state of disorder it arrives in.

Step 2: clarify, at most 3 questions

Ask at most 3 clarifying questions, one at a time, waiting for each reply before asking the next. Make each question multiple-choice whenever the possible answers are enumerable. Never ask an open-ended "tell me more" question. Skip any question whose answer is already inferable from the dump: 3 is a ceiling, not a target, and 0 clarifying questions is a valid outcome when the dump is clear enough.

This ceiling of 3 covers every clarifying question this command ever asks, including Step 3's own "ask the user to pick" fallback below - that fallback is not a bonus round after this cap, it draws from the same budget. Track how many of the 3 you have already spent before reaching Step 3.

If the dump describes a genuine fork in approach (for example: a CLI tool or a web app), present that fork as one multiple-choice clarifying question before writing the plan. Never write two parallel plans for the two branches of a fork.

Step 3: converge and write the plan

Do not keep iterating once Step 2 is done. Produce the plan below in one pass.

Write the plan in the profile's language field. If there is no profile, or language is auto, mirror the language the user is currently writing in.

Use exactly this section structure, in this order:

## The idea in one sentence
<forces convergence>

## Goal
<what success looks like, concretely, 1-2 lines>

## Scope
- IN: <3-5 bullets max>
- OUT (for now): <explicitly deferred - a decision, not a loss>

## Smallest useful version
<the minimal version that already delivers value - days, not months>

## Plan
Phase 1 - <name> (expanded fully below, in the form set by `step_style`, respecting max_list_items)
Phase 2 - <name> (one-line summary only)
Phase 3 - <name> (one-line summary only)

## First action
<ONE step, startable in under 10 minutes, right now>

## Parking lot 🐿️
<every tangent and "what if" that came up - captured, but explicitly not in the plan>