# Tlc Plan

Turns a request, ticket, PRD, design or thread into one plan a human approves and a...

- Repository: https://github.com/tech-leads-club/agent-skills (7121 stars)
- Category: Design
- License: CC-BY-4.0
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add tech-leads-club/agent-skills --skill tlc-plan -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add tech-leads-club/agent-skills --skill tlc-plan -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add tech-leads-club/agent-skills --skill tlc-plan -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add tech-leads-club/agent-skills --skill tlc-plan -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add tech-leads-club/agent-skills`

## Description

Turns a request, ticket, PRD, design or thread into one plan a human approves and a builder can act on without the conversation: asks every gray area until no product decision is left to the builder, then writes the problem, EARS criteria with concrete values, the path and the data it touches (drawn in mermaid), the interface, and only the decisions that are hard to reverse. Captures that come with the request bind. Use when the user says "plan this", "plan feature", "specify feature", "write the plan", "cut this PRD into tasks", or "tlc-plan". Do NOT use to implement (that is tlc-implement), for a standalone design document, or when nobody has decided what to build.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# TLC Plan

Ask until nothing is the builder's to decide. Write it down so a stranger can build it.

```
┌─────┐   ┌───────┐   ┌──────┐   ┌─────────┐
│ ASK │ → │ SHAPE │ → │ CHECK│ → │ APPROVE │ → tlc-implement
└─────┘   └───────┘   └──────┘   └─────────┘
```

The common failure of a coding agent is a requirement that never became an obligation, followed by
a completion claim. It starts here: a gray area the plan settled by guessing, a capture treated as
a suggestion, a sentence of the request that landed nowhere. This skill produces the one document a
human reads and objects to before any code exists, and it is the whole brief for whoever builds,
often a different agent with none of this conversation.

## Rules

The rest: https://github.com/tech-leads-club/agent-skills/blob/HEAD/packages/skills-catalog/skills/(development)/tlc-plan/SKILL.md