Plan Ceo Review — Workflow

Overview

How the plan-ceo-review skill works, step by step.

Source Workflow

Claude skill workflow.

Step-by-step Workflow

plan-ceo-review — Workflow

Auto-generated from SKILL.md. The skill itself is the source of truth; this is a human-readable map of what it does and how it runs.

What it does & when to use

CEO/founder-mode plan review. Rethink the problem, find the 10-star product, challenge premises, expand scope when it creates a better product. Four modes: SCOPE EXPANSION (dream big), SELECTIVE EXPANSION (hold scope + cherry-pick expansions), HOLD SCOPE (maximum rigor), SCOPE REDUCTION (strip to essentials). Use when asked to "think bigger", "expand scope", "strategy review", "rethink this", or "is this ambitious enough". Proactively suggest when the user is questioning scope or ambition of a plan, or when the plan feels like it could be thinking bigger. (gstack)

Triggers

think bigger
expand scope
strategy review
rethink this
is this ambitious enough

How it works

Workflow outline (sections of SKILL.md):

Preamble (run first)
Plan Mode Safe Operations
Skill Invocation During Plan Mode
Skill routing
AskUserQuestion Format
Artifacts Sync (skill start)
Model-Specific Behavioral Patch (claude)
Voice
Context Recovery
Writing Style (skip entirely if EXPLAIN_LEVEL: terse appears in the preamble echo OR the user's current message explicitly requests terse / no-explanations output)
Completeness Principle — Boil the Lake
Confusion Protocol
Continuous Checkpoint Mode
Context Health (soft directive)
Question Tuning (skip entirely if QUESTION_TUNING: false)
Repo Ownership — See Something, Say Something
Search Before Building
Completion Status Protocol
Operational Self-Improvement
Telemetry (run last)
Plan Status Footer
Step 0: Detect platform and base branch
Philosophy
Prime Directives
Engineering Preferences (use these to guide every recommendation)
Cognitive Patterns — How Great CEOs Think
Priority Hierarchy Under Context Pressure
PRE-REVIEW SYSTEM AUDIT (before Step 0)
Prerequisite Skill Offer
Prior Learnings
Step 0: Nuclear Scope Challenge + Mode Selection
Vision
Scope Decisions
Accepted Scope (added to this plan)
Deferred to TODOS.md
Spec Review Loop
Review Sections (11 sections, after scope and mode are agreed)
Outside Voice — Independent Plan Challenge (optional, recommended)
Post-Implementation Design Audit (if UI scope detected)
CRITICAL RULE — How to ask questions
Required Outputs
Handoff Note Cleanup
Review Log
Review Readiness Dashboard
Plan File Review Report
GSTACK REVIEW REPORT
Next Steps — Review Chaining
docs/designs Promotion (EXPANSION and SELECTIVE EXPANSION only)
Formatting Rules
Capture Learnings
Mode Quick Reference

Components

Single-file skill — all instructions live in SKILL.md.

Invoke

Slash: /plan-ceo-review
Or a natural-language request matching the triggers above.

Source: SKILL.md in this directory.

Execution Logic

The skill executes when its trigger fires (slash command, natural-language match, or direct invocation). It reads its references, applies its rules, and produces the documented outputs.

Edge Cases

See the source skill's references/ and scripts/ folders for edge-case handling.

Failure Handling

A skill failure surfaces as a tool error or a partial output; never a silent skip. Re-run with --verbose (where applicable) for diagnostics.

Integration Notes

Claude — invoked via the Skill tool with skill: "plan-ceo-review".
Codex — referenced from AGENTS.md if mirrored.
Antigravity — referenced from the workspace agent rules if mirrored.
HQ Project — listed on the landing page Skills section + post-login sidebar.
MD Project (md.sgnk.ai) — file rendered from Skills/Plan Ceo Review/workflow.md.
Obsidian — file rendered with frontmatter + tags.

Usage Examples

Invoke via slash command or natural language matching the skill description.

Source: ~/.claude/skills/plan-ceo-review/WORKFLOW.md