Split the work by blast radius, not by topic
The obvious grouping was one plan per recommendation.
Rejected because — this repo requires a version bump
for every plugin touched, so topic-grouping produces unreviewable commits. Blast
radius happens to correlate with risk here, so the cheap mechanical work also
lands first.
Write all five recommendations as plans, including the risky one
Ships with a mandatory baseline-capture step and an explicit abort condition:
if a pruned skill's baseline test fails and the cause is not obvious in one
attempt, restore the constraint rather than debug.
Rejected alternative — dropping the
imperative-pruning plan as poor risk-to-return. It was offered and declined.
Split the skill-splitting work into three plans by plugin
Three independently revertible units, grouped into near-equal thirds of
10,776 / 9,758 / 10,545 words.
Rejected alternative — one plan with a step per
plugin. It avoids repeating the rationale three times, but produces a single
all-or-nothing revert unit.
Reduce the plan-mode guard, do not remove it
The tutorial text goes; the one-line guard stays and is tested for.
Rejected reading — two of the article's rules point
at deleting the preamble entirely. Rejected for write-heavy skills: a skill that
starts writing inside plan mode violates a standing user preference, and that
failure is silent.
Keep the smallest plan small rather than padding it
Plan 1 has 5 steps against 9 for plans 4 through 7. The work genuinely is
small, and the repo's own right-sizing guidance says a chore should not carry a
context essay it does not need.
Use a multi-agent workflow for the last four plans
Requested explicitly. Eight agents ran — one author plus one adversarial
verifier per plan — in about nine minutes with no errors. The verify stage
earned its cost.