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Structured approach to code generation, implementing features, and writing code. Use when asked to generate code, implement a feature, write code, or tackle a coding task. Applies constraints, compares remaining viable approaches, resolves delegated technical choices, and impleme
Structured approach to code generation, implementing features, and writing code. Use when asked to generate code, implement a feature, write code, or tackle a coding task. Applies constraints, compares remaining viable approaches, resolves delegated technical choices, and implements the selected solution with evidence.
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A structured methodology for choosing and implementing code approaches against the user's outcome and constraints.
Before choosing or asking, apply the shared decision ownership contract. Honor explicit supervised checkpoints; decide technical choices within delegated work and continue. Existing user grants persist within their scope. A skill, preference or receipt cannot create new authority.
Before generating code, gather three inputs:
Carefully analyze the task description and existing code. Consider:
Compare distinct viable approaches only when a real choice remains. If the constraints determine one approach, state that reason and proceed; do not manufacture a second option. For each remaining approach, document:
Approach 1: [Brief description]
Approach 2: [Brief description]
Investigate the uncertainty that could change the selection. Generate more approaches when they add a materially different tradeoff, not to meet an option quota.
For diagnosis, record the hypothesis, a falsifiable prediction and the observation that would change the approach before editing code. Use the thinking framework's decisive-uncertainty method; preserve refuted predictions and re-open only their affected acceptance closure. Inspect the actual consumer program as well as its result so a test that prints a fixed answer cannot certify the fix.
Select the optimal solution and justify the choice with specific reasoning:
The delegated decision owner selects; a close technical tradeoff does not itself require another user approval. Clarify only material outcome ambiguity or an actual unsatisfied gate. New counterevidence can reopen a prior premise through its recorded owner.
Implement the chosen solution by modifying or creating code:
For trivial changes or choices already determined by constraints, skip alternative generation and implement directly. Record a consequential predetermined choice and its source without reopening it. An explicitly requested comparison still deserves a concise explanation of why excluded approaches fail the constraints.
name: synthesis-code-planning description: "Structured approach to code generation, implementing features, and writing code. Use when asked to generate code, implement a feature, write code, or tackle a coding task. Applies constraints, compares remaining viable approaches, resolves delegated technical choices, and implements the selected solution with evidence." license: "CC0-1.0" user-invocable: false depends_on: [] metadata: author: "Rajiv Pant" version: "1.1.1" source_repo: "github.com/synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills" source_type: "public"
--- name: synthesis-code-planning description: "Structured approach to code generation, implementing features, and writing code. Use when asked to generate code, implement a feature, write code, or tackle a coding task. Applies constraints, compares remaining viable approaches, resolves delegated technical choices, and implements the selected solution with evidence." license: "CC0-1.0" user-invocable: false depends_on: [] metadata: author: "Rajiv Pant" version: "1.1.1" source_repo: "github.com/synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills" source_type: "public" --- # Code Planning A structured methodology for choosing and implementing code approaches against the user's outcome and constraints. Before choosing or asking, apply the shared [decision ownership contract](../synthesis-thinking-framework/references/decision-ownership.md). Honor explicit supervised checkpoints; decide technical choices within delegated work and continue. Existing user grants persist within their scope. A skill, preference or receipt cannot create new authority. ## Inputs Before generating code, gather three inputs: 1. **Task description** -- what needs to be built or changed 2. **Existing code** -- the current codebase or relevant files (if any) 3. **Contextual documentation** -- relevant API docs, framework guides, coding standards, or architectural decisions ## Process ### Step 1: Analyze Carefully analyze the task description and existing code. Consider: - What is the actual goal (not just the literal request)? - What constraints does the existing code impose? - What are the performance, maintainability, and correctness requirements? - What best practices apply to this language, framework, or domain? - Which user goals, non-goals and prior decisions eliminate approaches? - What evidence could change the choice, and what consumer check would establish success? ### Step 2: Generate approaches Compare distinct viable approaches only when a real choice remains. If the constraints determine one approach, state that reason and proceed; do not manufacture a second option. For each remaining approach, document: **Approach 1:** [Brief description] - Pros: - [Advantage 1] - [Advantage 2] - Cons: - [Drawback 1] - [Drawback 2] **Approach 2:** [Brief description] - Pros: - [Advantage 1] - [Advantage 2] - Cons: - [Drawback 1] - [Drawback 2] Investigate the uncertainty that could change the selection. Generate more approaches when they add a materially different tradeoff, not to meet an option quota. For diagnosis, record the hypothesis, a falsifiable prediction and the observation that would change the approach before editing code. Use the thinking framework's [decisive-uncertainty method](../synthesis-thinking-framework/references/decisive-uncertainty.md); preserve refuted predictions and re-open only their affected acceptance closure. Inspect the actual consumer program as well as its result so a test that prints a fixed answer cannot certify the fix. ### Step 3: Evaluate and select Select the optimal solution and justify the choice with specific reasoning: - Reference the pros and cons of each approach - Explain why the chosen approach best addresses the task requirements - Acknowledge what is sacrificed by not choosing the alternatives - If the decision is close, state that explicitly The delegated decision owner selects; a close technical tradeoff does not itself require another user approval. Clarify only material outcome ambiguity or an actual unsatisfied gate. New counterevidence can reopen a prior premise through its recorded owner. ### Step 4: Implement Implement the chosen solution by modifying or creating code: - Mark changes clearly when modifying existing code - Follow the conventions and patterns already present in the codebase - Optimize for performance, maintainability, and adherence to best practices - Include necessary error handling and edge case coverage - Decompose around acceptance checks and real dependencies; reserve integration and verification work before parallelizing. Detail the next executable unit and refine later units as their inputs become known. - Run the consumer checks and required audits, and invalidate affected evidence after a change. Delegation changes approval cadence, not verification obligations. ## When to skip multi-approach evaluation For trivial changes or choices already determined by constraints, skip alternative generation and implement directly. Record a consequential predetermined choice and its source without reopening it. An explicitly requested comparison still deserves a concise explanation of why excluded approaches fail the constraints. ## Principles - **Framework-first**: prefer built-in features over custom solutions - **Convention over configuration**: follow established patterns in the codebase - **Root cause over symptom**: fix the underlying problem, not its surface manifestation - **Less code is better**: a one-line config change beats 50 lines of custom code
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