Lisa Plan

Plan: $ARGUMENTS

Decompose the PRD/spec at $ARGUMENTS into ordered work items with acceptance criteria, dependencies, and recommended skills/agents.

Orchestration: agent team

You are "inside an agent team" only if you are yourself a spawned teammate or subagent — you were spawned into a team context, or your context names a team lead you report to. A lead/root session that has previously spawned subagents is still the lead: prior Agent calls in the session (e.g., an Intake cycle's bounded scan helpers) do NOT make this a nested flow, and the lead retains full authority to create this flow's team.

If you are NOT inside an agent team by that definition, the very first thing you do is establish team orchestration.

Use the team tool for the current runtime:

• Claude Code >= 2.1.178: there is no TeamCreate tool; the team forms automatically when you spawn the first teammate with Agent. That first spawn should be the bounded specialist needed to start this flow. On older Claude Code that still exposes TeamCreate, the explicit team-create path is also acceptable.
• Codex: do not call TeamCreate; Codex does not expose that Claude tool. Use tool_search with a query like multi-agent tools to load multi_agent_v1, then use multi_agent_v1.spawn_agent for teammate delegation. Treat the first successful spawn_agent call as establishing team orchestration.
• Other runtimes: use the current runtime's tool-discovery mechanism to discover and call the appropriate multi-agent/team tool.

If no team creation or subagent delegation tool is available, explicitly state that team orchestration is unavailable in this runtime, continue as the lead agent, and preserve the workflow's review, verification, and task-tracking obligations locally.

Until the team is established, the first Codex teammate has been spawned, or the no-team fallback has been declared, do NOT call any of: TaskCreate, Skill, MCP tools (Atlassian / Linear / GitHub / Notion), Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Grep, Glob. The initial Claude Agent spawn described above is the only pre-team exception because it establishes the team. Reading the PRD, exploring the code, fetching context — all of those are tasks for the team you are about to create, not for the lead session before orchestration exists.

Note that lisa-intake dispatching this skill is NOT the nested case: Intake is a thin dispatcher that creates no team of its own and invokes this skill via the Skill tool in the lead session precisely so this preamble fires — treat an Intake dispatch exactly like a direct invocation and run the full team-first flow above.

If you ARE already inside an agent team by the definition above (you are a teammate that was handed this skill via the Skill tool from within another flow's team), do NOT create a second team — many harnesses reject double-creates — and do NOT collapse the nested flow into a single inline worker. A nested team-first flow must still bring in the specialists it requires by adding them to the existing team, not by doing the work itself:

• Claude: teams are flat and only the lead can add named teammates, so do NOT call Agent with a name from a teammate (the harness rejects it: "Teammates cannot spawn other teammates — the team roster is flat"). Send the team lead a message naming the specialist teammate(s) this flow needs, their task assignments, and completion criteria, then coordinate through the shared task list until they finish. An anonymous subagent (Agent with name omitted) is permitted only for bounded one-shot work whose result returns directly to you — it is not a substitute for the required lifecycle specialists.
• Codex: do NOT call TeamCreate. If the lead/root agent is addressable (you were given its id/handle), send it a request to multi_agent_v1.spawn_agent the specialist agent(s), including each agent's prompt, ownership, and expected result. If no lead handle exists but spawn_agent is available to you, spawn only the bounded specialist agent(s) this flow needs, wait_agent for their results, and relay those results upward to the parent/lead.

Treat the first successful lead-spawn request (or, on the Codex fallback, the first specialist spawn) as preserving team orchestration. Never satisfy a team-first lifecycle flow by doing all the work inline.

Source dispatch

Detect the input type from $ARGUMENTS and route to the appropriate source skill:

If no PRD or specification exists, suggest running the lisa-research skill first to produce one.

Flow

Execute the Plan flow as defined in the intent-routing rule (loaded via the lisa plugin). The rule contains the canonical step sequence (gates, sub-flows, output structure). This skill does NOT restate flow steps — change them in the rule, propagate everywhere.

Output

Work items in the configured tracker (JIRA, GitHub Issues, or Linear, per .lisa.config.json tracker) with acceptance criteria, dependencies, and recommended skills/agents per item. Ordered by dependency. Before finishing, route usage writes through lisa-usage-accounting: record the Plan run as a direct entry on the source PRD/spec artifact, attach a plan usage entry (or an explicit source: unavailable entry with nullable token/cost fields) to each created work item, and refresh the PRD rollup after lisa-prd-backlink regenerates the ## Tickets child refs. Do not invent plan-specific ledger formats or omit missing usage silently. If the specification cannot be decomposed without further clarification, stop and report what is missing.