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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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.
