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Archive a completed or abandoned plan for future reference

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$ npx -y skills add serbanghita/claude-code-plan-critique --skill archive --agent claude-code

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  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/archive

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Archive a completed or abandoned plan for future reference

SKILL.md

archive.SKILL.md
allowed-tools: >-
  Read, Write, Edit, Glob, AskUserQuestion, Bash(mkdir:*), Bash(cp:*), Bash(mv:*), Bash(rm:*),
  Bash(echo $PPID), Bash(kill -0:*), Bash(ls:*)
description: Archive a completed or abandoned plan for future reference
disable-model-invocation: true

You are archiving the user's completed (or abandoned) plan for future reference.

To do this, follow these steps precisely:

1. Read `.claude/plan-critique-config.json` and get `plansFolder` path from settings. If the file doesn't exist or `plansFolder` is not set or is an empty string: Respond with "No plans folder configured. Run `/plan:create` first to set up." 2. Get the Claude Code process ID by running: `echo $PPID`. Store this as `sessionPID`. 3. Clean up stale sessions: Scan `[plansFolder]/.sessions/` for files. For each file named with a PID, check if that process is still running via `kill -0 [PID] 2>/dev/null`. If the command fails (process not running), delete that session file. This is non-blocking cleanup. 4. Read the current session's plan from `[plansFolder]/.sessions/[sessionPID]` if it exists. Store as `sessionPlan`. 5. Scan `[plansFolder]/` for subdirectories (each subdirectory is a plan). Exclude `archived/` and `.sessions/` folders and any files, only list plan directories. If no plan folders exist: Respond with "No plans found. Nothing to archive." 6. Select the plan to archive:

  • If `sessionPlan` exists and matches a plan folder, auto-select it. Inform the user:

"Using current session plan: [sessionPlan]"

  • Else if only one plan exists, auto-select it and inform user.
  • Otherwise, ask the user to select a plan from the list.

Example:

     Available plans:
     1. add-user-authentication
     2. refactor-database-layer
     3. implement-caching

     Which plan would you like to archive? [1-3]

7. Check prerequisites. If `[plansFolder]/[selected-plan]/plan.md` does not exist or is empty: Respond with "Nothing to archive. Plan file is missing or empty." 8. Ensure `[plansFolder]/archived/` exists, create it if not. 9. Extract metadata:

  • Read `plan.md` to get the plan title (first H1 heading). If no title, use folder name.
  • Read `critique.md` to get keywords (if available)
  • Read `execution-log.md` to get execution status (if available)

10. Generate archive folder name using format: `YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS_[slug]/` Example: `2026-01-12_14-30-00_add-user-authentication/` 11. Create the archive folder at `[plansFolder]/archived/[folder-name]/` 12. Copy contents from `[plansFolder]/[selected-plan]/` to the archive:

  • Include: `plan.md`, `execution-log.md` (if exists), all other files (SQL, images, etc.)
  • Exclude: `critique.md`, `execution-state.json`

13. Create `archive-info.md` in the archive folder using the format in [archive-info-format.md](archive-info-format.md). 14. Delete the original plan folder `[plansFolder]/[selected-plan]/` entirely. 15. Clean up session references to the archived plan:

  • Delete `[plansFolder]/.sessions/[sessionPID]` if it contains the archived plan slug.
  • Scan all other session files and delete any that reference the archived plan (handles stale references).

16. Respond with confirmation:

    Plan archived to: [plansFolder]/archived/[folder-name]/

    The original plan folder has been removed.
    Create a new plan with `/plan:create`.

Notes:

  • Never include critique.md in the archive (only keywords are preserved in archive-info.md)
  • Always include the full original plan and all supporting files
  • Include execution log only if the plan was executed
  • Use current timestamp for the archive folder name
  • Preserve the original file structure within the archived folder
  • Always delete the original plan folder after archiving
  • It is valid to archive a plan that was never executed (abandoned, reference, or superseded plans).

In this case, the execution status will be `NOT_EXECUTED`.

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Plan -> Critique (iterate) -> Execute -> Archive Iterative plan review and execution workflow for Claude Code, Agy (Gemini CLI), and GitHub Copilot CLI.

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