| name | clean-room-planning |
|---|---|
| description | Break anchoring on a proposed approach before planning. Use whenever the user proposes a solution, architecture, or plan and asks you to plan, design, or build around it - even if they don't ask for alternatives. Also use when they ask to think outside the box or for a second opinion on a direction, or when you notice every option you're generating lives inside the user's framing. |
A proposal in context anchors everything generated after it — the plan gets drafted inside the proposal instead of against the problem. This skill breaks the anchor with a clean room: alternatives generated by agents that have never seen the proposal, the way clean-room engineering rebuilds from a spec without seeing the original code.
If the user marked the approach as decided ("execute this", "the approach is settled"), stop here and execute their spec — challenging a decided approach is noise. If the mode is ambiguous and the decision is hard to reverse (archi