/plano-agent-skills

name: plano-agent-skills
description: Best practices for building agents and agentic applications with Plano, including configuration, routing, orchestration, guardrails, observability, and deployment.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  author: katanemo
  version: "1.0.0"

Plano Agent Skills

Comprehensive Plano guidance for coding agents. Use this umbrella skill when a task spans multiple areas (config, routing, orchestration, filters, observability, CLI, deployment).

When To Use

• Validating or fixing Plano `config.yaml`
• Designing listener architecture (`model`, `prompt`, `agent`)
• Improving model/provider routing quality and fallback behavior
• Hardening filter chains and prompt guardrails
• Debugging routing with traces and CLI workflows
• Preparing deployment and production readiness checks

How To Use

1. Classify the request by scope (single section vs. cross-cutting). 2. For focused work, prefer a section-specific skill (for example `plano-routing-model-selection`). 3. For broad work, apply this umbrella skill and reference section rules from `skills/AGENTS.md`. 4. Produce concrete edits first, then concise reasoning and validation steps.

Operating Workflow

1. Identify the task area first: config, routing, orchestration, filters, observability, CLI, or deployment. 2. Apply the smallest correct change that satisfies the requested behavior. 3. Preserve security and reliability defaults:

• `version: v0.3.0`
• exactly one `default: true` model provider
• secrets via `$ENV_VAR` substitution only
• `host.docker.internal` for host services from inside Docker
• guardrails before enrichment in filter chains

4. For debugging, prioritize traces over guesswork (`planoai up --with-tracing`, `planoai trace`). 5. Return concrete diffs and a short validation checklist.

Response Style

• Prefer actionable edits over generic advice.
• Be explicit about why a config choice is correct.
• Call out risky patterns (hardcoded secrets, missing default provider, bad filter ordering).
• Keep examples minimal and production-viable.

References

• Repo: https://github.com/katanemo/plano
• Full rulebook: `skills/AGENTS.md`