--- title: "executing-plans skill: carry out an implementation plan" canonical_url: https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/executing-plans last_updated: 2026-10-02T01:58:30+02:00 type: skill summary: "Executing Plans is an agent skill from Superpowers in which your agent works through a written plan itself, task by task with tests, then gets one fresh review of the whole branch." install: "/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official" related: - "https://cookiesforai.app/skills/mattpocock/grill-me" - "https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/brainstorming" - "https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/diagnosing-superpowers" - "https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/dispatching-parallel-agents" - "https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/finishing-a-development-branch" - "https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/receiving-code-review" - "https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/requesting-code-review" - "https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/subagent-driven-development" --- # Executing Plans Executing Plans is an agent skill from Superpowers in which your agent works through a written plan itself, task by task with tests, then gets one fresh review of the whole branch. | Fact | Value | |---|---| | Publisher | Jesse Vincent | | Source | https://github.com/obra/superpowers/tree/HEAD/skills/executing-plans | | License | MIT | | Repository stars | 293,976 on 2026-10-02 | | Skill name | executing-plans | | Category | Planning and agent workflow | | Skill last changed | 2026-09-19 | | Page updated | 2026-10-02 | | Facts checked | 2026-10-02 | ## Install In Claude Code, install the whole Superpowers plugin from Anthropic's official marketplace: ``` /plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official ``` Or install only this skill with the skills CLI: ``` npx skills add obra/superpowers --skill executing-plans ``` ## Ask your coding agent A skill can include scripts that run on your computer, so read its source first: https://github.com/obra/superpowers/tree/HEAD/skills/executing-plans ```text Install the agent skill executing-plans from github.com/obra/superpowers. ``` ## What it does Executing Plans is one of the skills in Superpowers, Jesse Vincent's open-source method for AI coding agents. It loads when the agent carries out an implementation plan itself in the current session, because you chose inline execution or because no subagent tool is available. One context does every task, and one fresh reviewer checks the whole branch at the end. Under Executing Plans, work happens in an isolated workspace from Using Git Worktrees, and Test-Driven Development governs every step: each test is watched failing before the code that makes it pass. When the code is wrong, the agent switches to Systematic Debugging. Progress goes into a ledger file that survives context compaction and is shared with Subagent-Driven Development. Bundled task-start and task-done scripts print each task's brief and mark a task complete only when its tests pass. Under Executing Plans, the agent does not stop to check in between tasks. It decides plan conflicts itself and records each as a ruling, stopping only for destructive or security-sensitive actions, a merge, push or publish, or a plan too broken to follow. The final review uses the reviewer template from Requesting Code Review. The agent then lists every ruling and deferred minor finding for you and hands off to Finishing a Development Branch. ## When to use it - You have a finished implementation plan and want the agent to carry it out without asking after every task. - Your agent tool has no subagents, or you want the agent to do every task itself. - You want a written record of every decision the agent made on your behalf while following the plan. ## When to pick something else - Your plan has many independent tasks and you want each one reviewed before the next: use Subagent-Driven Development. ## Which agents it works in Jesse Vincent documents it for Claude Code, Codex (app and CLI), Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode, Antigravity, Devin CLI, Factory Droid, Grok Build CLI, Kimi Code, Pi, Qwen Code, Hermes Agent, Muse. The open skills CLI also installs it into 78 agents (listed with the CLI on 2026-10-01). Superpowers is written in Claude Code's vocabulary (subagent dispatch, todos, the Skill tool) and ships tool mappings for Codex, Gemini CLI, Pi, Antigravity, Hermes Agent and Muse. Installed as the full plugin, a session-start hook loads Using Superpowers so the agent reaches for skills on its own; one skill installed with the skills CLI gets no hook and may point to sibling skills you do not have. ## License MIT. ## Related ### Related skills for planning and agent workflow - [Grill me](https://cookiesforai.app/skills/mattpocock/grill-me): grill-me is Matt Pocock's agent skill that turns your agent into a relentless interviewer, asking numbered rounds of questions about a plan or design until every decision is settled. - [Brainstorming](https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/brainstorming): Brainstorming is an agent skill from Superpowers that makes your coding agent work out what you want and agree a design with you before it writes any code. - [Diagnosing Superpowers](https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/diagnosing-superpowers): Diagnosing Superpowers is an agent skill from Superpowers that reads a session's transcripts when work went wrong and reports what happened, with every finding tied to a file and line. - [Dispatching Parallel Agents](https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/dispatching-parallel-agents): Dispatching Parallel Agents is an agent skill from Superpowers: when several problems are independent, your agent sends a focused subagent to each at once, then checks the results together. ### More from Jesse Vincent - [Finishing a Development Branch](https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/finishing-a-development-branch): Finishing a Development Branch is an agent skill from Superpowers: when work is done, your agent runs the tests, offers to merge, open a pull request or keep the branch, then cleans up. - [Receiving Code Review](https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/receiving-code-review): Receiving Code Review is an agent skill from Superpowers: your agent checks review feedback against the code before acting, pushes back with reasons when it is wrong, and skips the flattery. - [Requesting Code Review](https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/requesting-code-review): Requesting Code Review is an agent skill from Superpowers: your agent sends its changes to a separate reviewer subagent that checks them against the plan and grades each issue by severity. - [Subagent-Driven Development](https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/subagent-driven-development): Subagent-Driven Development is an agent skill from Superpowers: your agent carries out a plan by giving each task to a fresh subagent, reviewing every task, then reviewing the whole branch.