# Executing Plans

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-gb3h-agent-skills-executing-plans`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [gb3h](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/gb3h)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [gb3h](https://github.com/gb3h)
- **Source:** https://github.com/gb3h/agent-skills/tree/master/skills/executing-plans

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-gb3h-agent-skills-executing-plans
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Executing Plans

Load plan. Review critically. Execute all tasks. Verify each step. Report when complete.

**If subagents are available:** consider using `subagent-driven-development` instead — fresh context per task yields higher quality.

## Step 1: Load and Review Plan

1. Read the plan file with `read`
2. Review critically — identify questions, concerns, missing context, or unclear steps
3. **If concerns exist:** raise them with the user BEFORE starting. Do not silently work around plan gaps.
4. If no concerns: proceed to execution

## Step 2: Execute Tasks

For each task in the plan:

1. **Read** the step — understand exactly what it asks
2. **Execute** exactly what the step says — no scope creep, no "while I'm here" improvements
3. **Verify** with concrete evidence (file exists, test passes, command succeeds). Use `exec` and `read` — not assumptions.
4. **Mark done** — update the plan: `[x]`
5. **Continue** to next step

## When to Stop and Ask for Help

**STOP executing immediately when:**
- Step fails and you can't diagnose why within 2 attempts
- Plan has a gap preventing the next step
- You don't understand an instruction
- Verification fails repeatedly
- Something contradicts the plan's assumptions

**Ask for clarification rather than guessing.** Guessing compounds errors across subsequent steps.

## When to Revisit Earlier Steps

- User updates the plan based on your feedback
- A later step reveals an earlier step was done incorrectly
- Fundamental approach needs rethinking

**Don't force through blockers.** Stop, surface the issue, wait for direction.

## Rules

- **Never start on main/master branch** without explicit user consent
- **Stay on task.** Unrelated issues go in `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md` — don't fix them mid-step
- **No silent skips.** If you skip a step, state why and the consequences
- **Use `systematic-debugging`** if a step fails unexpectedly
- **Use `verification-before-completion`** before declaring any step done

## Checkpointing

At checkpoint steps (or every 3-5 tasks), write to `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md`:
- Steps completed so far
- Current state of work
- Decisions made during execution
- Exact next step to resume from

## Resuming from Checkpoint

1. Read the most recent memory file with `read`
2. Find the last checkpoint
3. Verify checkpoint state is still valid (files exist, no conflicts)
4. Resume from the next step

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [gb3h](https://github.com/gb3h)
- **Source:** [gb3h/agent-skills](https://github.com/gb3h/agent-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-gb3h-agent-skills-executing-plans
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/gb3h
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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