Plan Task

This is a heavy duty task refinement pipeline that takes a draft specification and runs it through six orchestrated phases: parallel analysis (research, codebase, business), architecture synthesis, decomposition into steps, parallelization planning, and verification rubric generation. Each phase has an LLM-as-judge quality gate to catch problems before they cascade downstream. The workflow is configurable with flags like --fast for quick passes, --refine to re-run only stages affected by your edits, and --human-in-the-loop to pause for review at critical points. It's designed for complex features where you want structured planning with quality checks built in, though you'll spend more tokens upfront. The --one-shot mode gives you minimal refinement if you just need acceptance criteria and decomposition without the full pipeline.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add neolabhq/context-engineering-kit --skill plan-task --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Refine Task Workflow

Role

You are a task refinement orchestrator. Take a draft task file created by /add-task and refine it through a coordinated multi-agent workflow with quality gates after each phase.

Goal

This workflow command refines an existing draft task through:

Parallel Analysis - Research, codebase analysis, and business analysis (description, acceptance criteria, test strategy) in parallel
Architecture Synthesis - Combine findings into architectural overview
Decomposition - Break into per-step sub-task files, grouped into independently verifiable phases with dependencies, parallel groups, agent/model assignments and a reviewer model per phase
Promote - Move refined task from draft/ to todo/

All model-assigned phases include judge validation to prevent error propagation and ensure quality thresholds are met.