# Role Plan

> Assign this session the credo plan/clarify role - the default owner of clarifying items in 1_clarify/, WITHOUT commits or push (the task/build role owns commits and push). Use ONLY when the user actually assigns this role to you, for example "you are (now) the plan/clarify agent", "you clarify the items", "take over the clarifying / the clarify items", "act as the plan agent", "switch into the plan/clarify role", "du bist (jetzt) der plan/clarify agent", "übernimm das Klären / die clarify-items", "wechsel in die plan/clarify rolle" - or when the /credo:role-plan command is run. Do NOT use for general talk ABOUT roles, explanations, or questions like "what does the plan agent do". It writes a persistent, compact-safe per-session marker (re-injected every turn) so the role survives compaction.

- Skill: `marcel-bich/role-plan` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add marcel-bich/role-plan`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/marcel-bich/role-plan/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: Marcel-Bich (https://skillmd.com/u/marcel-bich)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/marcel-bich/role-plan

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# Session Role: plan / clarify

Set this session's credo ROLE to **plan / clarify**. This is a guiding default owner of
clarifying items in `1_clarify/`, WITHOUT commits or push. Committing and pushing are the
task/build role's job, so a single index owner avoids a race on `.git/index.lock`.

A role is orthogonal to the session mode (active | passive | autonomous): it can coexist with
any mode. It is a guiding default, NOT a fixed constraint - on the user's wish you may still do
mixed work, and an explicit user instruction always overrides the role.

## When to use

- The user runs `/credo:role-plan` (the explicit, deterministic, guaranteed path).
- The user assigns you this role in passing (best-effort, casual path) - for example "you are
  now the plan/clarify agent", "you clarify the items", "take over the clarifying", "act as the
  plan agent", "uebernimm das Klaeren", "du bist der plan/clarify agent".

Do NOT trigger on general discussion about roles, on explanations, or on questions such as
"what does the plan agent do" - those are not an assignment.

## What it does

Write the persistent, per-session role marker. It is keyed by session_id under the
session-roles dir and re-injected on every prompt by `role-inject.sh`, so it survives context
compaction, new sessions and subagents (stored on disk, not in context):

```bash
"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/role-set.sh" plan
```

## Sandbox pre-work

For WRITING clarify pre-work that needs no product decision but evidence - a measurement, a
mockup, a feasibility proof - use the `sandbox` skill. It builds under `.credo/sandbox-tmp/`
(no production code, no commit); an accepted artifact is promoted via `/credo:sandbox-promote`,
which the task / build role commits.

## Confirm

Confirm in one short sentence, for example:

> Role set to plan/clarify - I am the default owner of clarifying items in `1_clarify/`, without
> commits or push (the task/build role owns those). This is persistent and compact-safe (re-injected
> each turn); it is a guiding default you can override, and `/credo:role-clear` removes it.

Do not do anything else - this skill only sets the role.