version: "1.0.0" name: wtfp-plan-section description: This skill plans and safely reshapes manuscript sections. It activates when an agent needs to discuss a section, expose assumptions, make a writing or revision plan, insert a newly discovered section, remove an unstarted section, or perform the WTF-P discuss-section, list-assumptions, plan-section, plan-revision, insert-section, or remove-section actions.

Plan a WTF-P Section

Translate the manuscript argument and the author's intent into an executable, verifiable section plan.

Select the action

• Use discuss-section to capture the author's intended reader experience and boundaries.
• Use list-assumptions to preview the current interpretation without writing files.
• Use plan-section to create an evidence-backed writing plan.
• Use plan-revision to convert review findings into targeted fixes.
• Use insert-section or remove-section to change outline structure deliberately.

Read references/actions.md for the selected action before changing project state.

Apply the planning contract

1. Resolve the section against project://structure/outline and project://sections/{section}; reject ambiguity instead of guessing.
2. Load project://manifest, project://state, project://decisions, the outline, prior section summaries, project://sections/{section}/context, and project://sections/{section}/research when they exist.
3. For plan-section, read project://validations/* and apply the prerequisite selector and decision-fidelity gate in the detailed action reference before any specialist dispatch.
4. Treat context as author guidance, research as synthesis, source records as identity/provenance, evidence records as claim support, and outline claim IDs as obligations. Preserve those distinctions through planning and checking.
5. Honor project://config gates and its destructive-change safety policy.
6. Give every plan a concrete objective, declared dependencies, target files, ordered tasks, checkpoints, verification steps, success criteria, and expected outputs.
7. Check the plan goal-backward: completing its tasks must be sufficient to satisfy the section goal and assigned claims.
8. Iterate on checkable defects; escalate unresolved judgment calls to the author.
9. Report the plan path, verification state, open decisions, and next executable action.

Preserve outline integrity

• Keep stable section IDs, outline order, state references, dependencies, artifact links, and word totals synchronized.
• Preview every structural edit before applying it.
• Remove only a section proven to be unstarted and empty of authored plans, summaries, reviews, and manuscript content.
• Back up affected planning files before a multi-file rename or removal.
• Never initialize, commit, branch, merge, delete, or renumber implicitly. Structural deletion requires the action's explicit user gate; VCS work belongs to a separate declared action.

If the evidence needed for a plan is missing, create a precise research handoff instead of filling the plan with unsupported claims.