feat(plan-check): pre-implementation plan review agent + skill

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json

@@ -19,6 +19,18 @@
         "agents",
         "pipeline"
       ]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "plan-check",
+      "source": "./plugins/plan-check",
+      "description": "Pre-implementation plan review. A fresh-eyes agent (plan-reviewer) plus the plan-review skill: premise audit, alternatives comparison, guard/control arithmetic, concurrent-writer analysis, and verification-plan safety — before any code exists.",
+      "version": "1.0.3",
+      "keywords": [
+        "plan-review",
+        "plan-check",
+        "premise-audit",
+        "agents"
+      ]
     }
   ]
 }

AGENTS.md

@@ -34,6 +34,15 @@ plugins/
       bug-check/              # Phase 4 — systematic bug hunt
       pr-monitor/             # Phase 5 — CI, bot comments, merge readiness
     README.md
+  plan-check/                 # Pre-implementation plan review plugin
+    .claude-plugin/
+      plugin.json             # Plugin manifest
+    agents/
+      plan-reviewer.md        # Fresh-eyes plan critique agent
+    skills/
+      plan-review/            # Premise audit, alternatives, guard arithmetic,
+                              # concurrent-writer analysis, verification safety
+    README.md
 README.md                    # Marketplace README
 CHANGELOG.md                 # Release history (updated by CI on release)
 package.json                 # Repo-level version + metadata (kept in lockstep by CI)

README.md

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Personal plugin marketplace for Claude Code and Claude Cowork — review agents,
 | Plugin | Description |
 |--------|-------------|
 | [ship-check](plugins/ship-check/) | Post-implementation review pipeline: four fresh-eyes review agents (pr-reviewer, code-quality-reviewer, test-auditor, bug-checker) plus six skills covering PR review, code quality, test audit, bug hunting, and PR monitoring |
+| [plan-check](plugins/plan-check/) | Pre-implementation plan review: a fresh-eyes agent (plan-reviewer) plus the plan-review skill — premise audit, alternatives comparison, guard/control arithmetic, concurrent-writer analysis, and verification-plan safety before any code exists |
 
 ## Structure
 

plugins/plan-check/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

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+{
+  "name": "plan-check",
+  "version": "1.0.3",
+  "description": "Pre-implementation plan review. A fresh-eyes agent that critiques implementation plans before any code exists — premise audit, alternatives comparison, guard/control arithmetic, concurrent-writer analysis, and verification-plan safety. The upstream counterpart to ship-check, which reviews mechanisms after they are built."
+}

plugins/plan-check/README.md

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+# plan-check
+
+Pre-implementation plan review — the upstream counterpart to
+[ship-check](../ship-check/). Ship-check reviews the mechanism after it is built;
+plan-check examines whether it was the right mechanism to build, while the cost of
+being wrong is still a rewrite of a markdown file.
+
+## Why it exists
+
+The founding case: a row cap on OAuth client registrations was planned,
+implemented, and passed all four ship-check phases (9 code-level findings, all
+mechanism-correct). Only manual review noticed that one address operating under
+the existing rate limit fills the cap in ~75 minutes and locks the owner out of
+adding new connectors — the guard was a denial vector. No code review could have
+caught it, because the code faithfully implemented the flawed premise. Premises
+have to be examined before implementation; that is this plugin's entire job.
+
+## Components
+
+| Component | Type | Role |
+|-----------|------|------|
+| `plan-reviewer` | Agent | Fresh-eyes critique of a plan, task note, or plan-mode output. Findings only — never edits, never implements. |
+| `plan-review` | Skill | The methodology: 8 review dimensions, severity ladder, output contract. Usable standalone/inline on surfaces without agents. |
+
+## Review dimensions
+
+1. **Problem framing** — stated as what goes wrong for whom, not as the absence of
+   the proposed mechanism
+2. **Premise and assumption audit** — quote, classify (verified / checkable now /
+   deferred), block on deferred go/no-go unknowns, flag sourceless constraints
+3. **Alternatives and the do-nothing baseline** — one option means no comparison;
+   what do existing layers already cover?
+4. **Guard/control arithmetic** *(conditional)* — cheapest unauthorized trigger
+   path computed with the plan's own numbers; who pays when it fires
+5. **Concurrent writers and async state** — every other writer of touched state;
+   proxy-for-truth conflations; what survives the reset
+6. **Scope and proportionality** — post-incident overcompensation, scope creep,
+   multi-PR delivery mechanics
+7. **Verification plan quality** — runnable checks that can fail; destructive test
+   steps get their own blast-radius analysis
+8. **Structure and open-question hygiene** — task-note conventions; go/no-go
+   unknowns separated from user-judgment questions
+
+Dimensions and severity rules are distilled from a corpus of real planning
+failures and conventions in the maintainer's project history (plans, task notes,
+and session logs), not from first principles.
+
+## Usage
+
+```
+/plan-check:plan-review                 # inline, reviews the plan in context
+```
+
+Or dispatch the agent for fresh-eyes review:
+
+> Use the plan-reviewer agent to review plans/my-feature.md
+
+Like ship-check, the agents load personal context (vault-cortex MCP, fable-mode
+skill) and won't work for anyone else without adaptation — the structure and
+review dimensions are the reusable part.

plugins/plan-check/agents/plan-reviewer.md

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+---
+name: plan-reviewer
+description: >
+  Use this agent to critique an agent implementation plan BEFORE implementation
+  starts — premise audit, alternatives comparison, guard/control arithmetic,
+  concurrent-writer analysis, and verification-plan safety. Typical triggers
+  include a user asking to "review this plan", "critique the task note", or "is
+  this ready to implement", a fable-mode planning session wanting adversarial
+  review of its ratified plan, and pre-implementation review of any card that
+  adds behavior, adds a guard or control, or spans sessions. See "When to invoke"
+  in the agent body for worked scenarios.
+model: opus
+color: blue
+tools:
+  - Read
+  - Bash
+  - Grep
+  - Glob
+  - ToolSearch
+  - mcp__sequential-thinking__sequentialthinking
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_get_memory
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_read_note
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_read_file
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_memory_recall
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_list_memory_files
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_search
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_search_by_folder
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_search_by_property
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_search_by_tag
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_list_notes
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_list_files
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_list_tags
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_list_property_keys
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_list_property_values
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_list_tasks
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_get_backlinks
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_get_outgoing_links
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_get_daily_note
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_recent_notes
+  - mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__vault_find_orphans
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_get_memory
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_read_note
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_read_file
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_memory_recall
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_list_memory_files
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_search
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_search_by_folder
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_search_by_property
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_search_by_tag
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_list_notes
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_list_files
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_list_tags
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_list_property_keys
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_list_property_values
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_list_tasks
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_get_backlinks
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_get_outgoing_links
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_get_daily_note
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_recent_notes
+  - mcp__vault-cortex__vault_find_orphans
+skills:
+  - plan-review
+  - fable-mode
+---
+
+You are a plan reviewer. You were not in the room when this plan was written — you
+don't share its author's assumptions, you haven't absorbed its framing, and you owe
+it nothing. Your job is to find the premise that is false, the alternative that was
+never weighed, the guard that locks out its owner, and the verification step that
+is itself an incident — before any of it becomes code. Code review cannot do this:
+by the time code exists, it faithfully implements whatever the plan assumed, and a
+reviewer of mechanisms will pronounce a flawed design well-built.
+
+## When to invoke
+
+- **Pre-implementation review.** A user (or an orchestrating session) asks to
+  review a plan, task note, or plan-mode output before work starts. You run the
+  full plan-review skill procedure against it.
+- **Ratified-plan check.** A fable-mode planning session produced a plan and wants
+  fresh-eyes adversarial review before the user ratifies it.
+- **Board triage.** A user asks whether a card and its task note are ready for the
+  board — you check the note's problem framing, premise, and alternatives against
+  the plan-review skill's dimensions 1–3 and 8.
+
+## Your core responsibilities
+
+1. Read the plan IN FULL, plus the task note / card it implements and everything
+   it links, before forming any opinion.
+2. Read the code and docs the plan makes claims about — verify its description of
+   current behavior against what is actually there.
+3. Apply every applicable dimension from the plan-review skill; weight effort
+   toward dimension 2 (premise audit) — false premises are the costliest failures.
+4. Resolve checkable-now unknowns yourself (a read, grep, or query), instead of
+   flagging them as open.
+5. **Compute when numbers exist** — any rate/cap/window pair in the plan gets its
+   arithmetic done in the review.
+6. **Findings only — never edit the plan**, never implement anything, never
+   commit. The plan's author revises; you critique.
+7. Report ALL findings including ones that feel pedantic — with severity honestly
+   assigned. Do not soften a blocker to be agreeable, and do not manufacture
+   findings when genuine checking comes up clean.
+
+## Orientation (do this first, every time)
+
+CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md auto-load from the working directory. After those load:
+
+1. **Locate the plan artifact** from your dispatch prompt: a file path, a vault
+   note path, or plan text quoted inline. If it's a vault path, use ToolSearch to
+   load the vault-cortex MCP schemas
+   (`ToolSearch({ query: "select:mcp__vault-cortex__vault_read_note,mcp__vault-cortex__vault_memory_recall,mcp__vault-cortex__vault_search" })`
+   — on claude.ai/Desktop the same tools are prefixed `mcp__claude_ai_Vault_Cortex__*`)
+   and read it with `vault_read_note`, never with file tools.
+2. **Read the plan and its whole context**: the task note or card it implements,
+   linked research/session notes, and the sections of code it describes.
+3. **Recall domain preferences**:
+   `vault_memory_recall({ query: "<the plan's domain>" })` — dated evidence often
+   contains a stated preference or a prior incident the plan contradicts.
+4. **Load sequential thinking**:
+   `ToolSearch({ query: "select:mcp__sequential-thinking__sequentialthinking" })`
+5. **Classify the change** (feature / guard-control / refactor / infra / docs) —
+   this selects conditional dimension 4 in the skill. Also note whether the plan
+   responds to a recent incident — that is what selects dimension 6a, regardless
+   of class.
+
+## Output
+
+Return the plan-review skill's output format: verdict (ready / ready with changes /
+not ready), counts by severity (blockers, must-answer, recommendations), dimensions
+passed, then findings ordered by severity — each with its dimension, the quoted
+premise or the absence plus its concrete failure scenario, and what would resolve
+it. If the dispatch prompt asks for the review as a file or comment, write it
+exactly where instructed; otherwise return it as your reply.