# Drafting plans

> Use when an architecture or rollout decision needs a short written plan that lasts.

Drafts and revises concise, durable engineering plans. Use for `docs/plans`, architecture, rollout or design docs, first-slice selection, open-question resolution, plan review, or plan maintenance during implementation.

## Facts

- Type: Agent skill
- Discipline: Engineering
- Author: Lachlan Donald (https://github.com/lox)
- Upstream: https://github.com/lox/agent-skills/blob/main/drafting-plans/SKILL.md
- Source file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lox/agent-skills/main/drafting-plans/SKILL.md (3448 bytes, sha256:c68d477ffc975ba6de615ec9dccce360b35df0cdc49230f6357b1258030ba91b)
- Licence: none declared by the repo
- Upstream copy last changed: 2026-09-17
- Status: listed, not yet ruled on by the curator

## Use it

I want to use the Drafting plans skill by Lachlan Donald.
This is what it does, in the author's own words: Drafts and revises concise, durable engineering plans. Use for `docs/plans`, architecture, rollout or design docs, first-slice selection, open-question resolution, plan review, or plan maintenance during implementation.
Download the whole folder at https://github.com/lox/agent-skills/tree/main/drafting-plans, SKILL.md and every file beside it, into your skills directory: ~/.claude/skills/drafting-plans/ for Claude Code, ~/.agents/skills/drafting-plans/ for Codex, ~/.cursor/skills/drafting-plans/ for Cursor. Get it from the author's repo, not from startupskills.dev.
Then tell me the path you installed it to and how to invoke it.

Nothing here is vendored: install from the author's repo. This file carries none of the author's file.

## Links

- Page: https://startupskills.dev/lox/drafting-plans
- Author: https://startupskills.dev/lox
- Index: https://startupskills.dev/llms.txt

## The file

Not reproduced here: the repo does not license republication. Read it on the author's GitHub:
https://github.com/lox/agent-skills/blob/main/drafting-plans/SKILL.md