Discover Before Planning

Do discovery during planning — explore the codebase and close open questions before presenting a plan. Use when drafting implementation plans, or when a plan would defer verification or "pre-flight" checks to execution.

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Discover before planning

Walk down every branch of the design tree and resolve dependencies one-by-one before the plan lands. The plan is the record of decisions already made — not a place to discover them later.

If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase or read-only checks, explore instead of deferring. Only escalate to the user what you genuinely cannot close alone — ask now, not in a future phase.

Done when: no plan step exists solely to answer a question you could have resolved during planning.

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