Plan

This is a Hermes-native plan workflow skill.

Why This Exists

plan exists to keep planning work explicit, evidence-backed, and inside the Hermes/executor boundary instead of relying on ad hoc chat narration.

Do Not Use When

• The request is casual chat, a status-only acknowledgement, or another workflow has stronger routing evidence.
• The user needs implementation, review, CI, merge, or external publishing evidence that has not been delegated or observed.

Examples

Good example:

• Prompt: plan: handle a planning request that needs explicit evidence boundaries and a clear stop condition.
• Expected behavior: Run plan only after naming the target, evidence boundary, and stop condition.
• Why: The request matches the catalog use case and keeps observed evidence separate from prepared guidance.

Bad example:

• Prompt: plan: treat casual chat or unaccepted work as if this workflow already produced verified results.
• Expected behavior: Ask a clarification question or route to a narrower workflow instead of forcing plan.
• Why: The request lacks the required inputs or would overclaim work that Hermes did not observe.

Completion Checklist

• The plan names goals, non-goals, assumptions, acceptance criteria, and verification shape.
• Draft recommendations, accepted decisions, and executor handoffs are separate states.
• Rejected options or unresolved tradeoffs are recorded before handoff.

Recovery Notes

• If acceptance criteria or verification are missing, route back to clarification before handoff.
• If assumptions materially affect the plan, keep them visible and avoid treating the plan as accepted.

Workflow Lane

• Current lane: Intent -> plan (oh-my-hermes, meta-router, deep-interview, context, plan, ralplan, codebase-onboarding, codegraph-refresh, +4 more) - clarify, plan, ship, or loop goals.
• If intent belongs to another lane, hand back to oh-my-hermes or name the adjacent workflow.
• Shared product, routing, compatibility, and evidence rules: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md.

Use When

Use for structured planning when implementation is not ready to start safely, including feature work that needs a safe plan before handoff.

Strong routing signals: plan, $plan, implementation plan, task breakdown, safe feature, safely add a feature, add a feature, feature request, new feature, product triage, bug triage, issue triage, reproduction plan, workflow hub, coding handoff, 답할 차례, 준비할 차례, project template, 재현 계획, 요구사항 정리, 작업 허브, 작업 허브가 필요, github pr workflow, 상태와 다음 행동, 프로젝트별 운영

Catalog Metadata

Category: planning Phase: plan Hermes role: planner Quality tier: acceptance-gated Reasoning demand: standard

Quality bar:

• Make goals, non-goals, risks, acceptance criteria, and verification shape explicit.
• Keep draft plans unapproved until a user or wrapper accepts them.
• Only prepare coding handoff guidance after the plan is accepted.
• Plan acceptance approves the plan content, not execution: after acceptance, recommend the follow-on path that fits the work's shape — ultrawork durable checkpoints for progress that must survive sessions as a checkpointed ledger, ultrawork coordinated lanes for an accepted plan split into disjoint parallel lanes, ultrawork single-owner persistence for one already-scoped task with a single owner, ultrawork for one bounded delivery cycle, or a direct selected executor/runtime handoff for a single prepared coding change — state the fit reason in one line, and start it only after the user's explicit go-ahead.

Handoff policy:

Keep planning in Hermes; if the accepted plan requires code edits, prepare a selected executor/runtime handoff after acceptance, and start a follow-on workflow engine only after the user explicitly confirms the recommended path.

Required inputs:

• requirements
• constraints
• known facts
• non-goals

Expected outputs:

• plan
• acceptance criteria
• verification strategy

Artifact expectations:

• plan artifact when durable execution will follow

Safety rules:

• Do not imply hidden Hermes runtime behavior.
• Use the smallest verification that can prove the claim.

Runtime Evidence

Preferred harness for this skill: planning.

sh
omh runtime record --skill plan --harness planning --status started

Record observed delegation results; otherwise return not_available or not_observed. Prepared OMH routing is not execution, review, CI, merge-readiness, or merge evidence.

• When wrapper metadata includes memory_review_card/v1 or handoff_context_pack/v1, treat it as reviewed OMH-local or wrapper-supplied context only. Use conflict-free context summaries to shape plans and handoffs, but do not claim Hermes internal memory was read or changed.

Preserve workflow intent and stop conditions; verify before claiming completion.

Use Hermes-native subagent/delegation features when available: native subagents -> Hermes delegation when available, otherwise sequential lanes.

Shared product, compatibility, topology, memory, harness, and execution rules: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md. Load it when applicable; otherwise name an unavailable capability.