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executing-plans

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Execute a written plan with discipline — verify each step before advancing, surface deviations instead of improvising around them, and keep a visible execution log. Use when working through a plan (yours or another agent's), resuming multi-session work, or when execution keeps drifting from what was agreed. Produces completed work plus an execution log showing what matched the plan, what deviated and why, and what the plan got wrong. Pairs with writing-plans.

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# Executing Plans Skill

A plan's value is realised or destroyed at execution time. The two failure modes: *rigid* execution (following a plan reality has invalidated) and *drift* (quietly improvising until the work no longer resembles the plan and nobody decided that). The discipline is the same for both: deviations are decisions, made visibly.

## What This Skill Produces

- The work, executed step-by-step with per-step verification actually run
- An **execution log**: step → result → verification outcome → any deviation with its reason
- A **plan feedback note**: what the plan got wrong (feeds the next plan)

## Execution Method

1. **Load the plan and check it's still true.** Before step 1: do the plan's assumptions still hold (the branch, the data, the constraint)? A plan written yesterday can be stale today; two minutes of validation beats an hour of executing a fiction.
2. **One step, then its verification — actually run.** The verification isn't decoration: run the command, check the observable, record the result. Advancing on "that probably worked" is how step 6 fails mysteriously because step 3 silently didn't.
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