Executing Plans Inline
obra/superpowers
Has the agent carry out an implementation plan itself, task by task in the current session, keeping a ledger, proving each step with a test and ending with one whole-branch review.
A skill your agent uses when a research implementation plan exists in docs/superpapers/plans/ and the user is ready to execute it — collecting data, running analysis, producing outputs, writing the…
Install Execute Plan
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill execute-plan -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills execute-plan --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/execute-plan .claude/skills/execute-plan && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "execute-plan" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/execute-plan into .claude/skills/execute-plan/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "execute-plan", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/execute-planType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill execute-plan -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills execute-plan --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/execute-plan .agents/skills/execute-plan && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "execute-plan" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/execute-plan into .agents/skills/execute-plan/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "execute-plan", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill execute-plan -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills execute-plan --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/execute-plan .cursor/skills/execute-plan && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "execute-plan" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/execute-plan into .cursor/skills/execute-plan/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "execute-plan", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git --path skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/execute-plan--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill execute-plan -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills execute-plan --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/execute-plan .gemini/skills/execute-plan && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "execute-plan" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/execute-plan into .gemini/skills/execute-plan/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "execute-plan", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills execute-planInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill execute-plan -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/execute-plan .github/skills/execute-plan && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "execute-plan" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/execute-plan into .github/skills/execute-plan/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "execute-plan", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill execute-plan -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills execute-plan --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/execute-plan .opencode/skills/execute-plan && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "execute-plan" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/execute-plan into .opencode/skills/execute-plan/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "execute-plan", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
execute-plan- GitHub stars
- 4.5k
- Token cost
- ~2.1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 1,068 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 364
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when a research implementation plan exists in docs/superpapers/plans/ and the user is ready to execute it — collecting data, running analysis, producing outputs, writing the…
- Works in 12 steps: Invoke academic-baseline first. This… → Load and parse the plan. Read the plan… → Invoke replication-driven-research to… → …
- A research implementation plan exists in docs/superpapers/plans/ and the user is ready to execute it — collecting data
- SKILL.md covers Overview, When to Use, Prerequisites and Mandatory Steps, plus 4 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Execute Plan is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Use when a research implementation plan exists in docs/superpapers/plans/ and the user is ready to execute it — collecting data, running analysis, producing outputs, writing the paper. Orchestrates task execution with replication-driven verification and two-stage review at phase boundaries.
Its SKILL.md is about 2.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Planning. The repository describes itself as: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库，覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…
When your agent uses it
- A research implementation plan exists in docs/superpapers/plans/ and the user is ready to execute it — collecting data
- Running analysis
- Producing outputs
- Writing the paper
Example prompts
- “/execute-plan”
Workflow steps
12 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Invoke academic-baseline first. This resolves CLAUDE.superpapers.md via the walk-up Read (current working directory, then parent…
- Load and parse the plan. Read the plan file in full. Extract tasks, phases, dependencies, verification criteria, and Skills involved.
- Invoke replication-driven-research to ensure project structure. If directories are missing, propose scaffolding. Wait for user…
- Pre-flight declaration before every task. Before executing any task, output a structured block
- Enforce journal routing. Any task or review involving a target journal, author instructions, formatting, templates, blinding, cover…
- Execute tasks phase by phase. Within a phase, independent tasks can be dispatched to subagents in parallel. Sequential tasks run in order.
- Verify after every task. Run the task's verification command. If it fails, stop and diagnose — do not proceed silently.
- Run end-to-end integration at each phase boundary. Execute the full pipeline from data/raw/ to the farthest artifact produced so far…
- Two-stage phase review
- Only proceed to the next phase after both stages pass.
- On failure: stop, diagnose root cause, fix, re-run from the failing task. Never skip failed tasks. Never re-run from scratch without…
- Final full-pipeline run. Before declaring the plan complete, run everything from raw data to final PDF. All verifications must pass.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Execute Plan loads about 2.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,068 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,068 words (~2,128 tokens).
“This skill executes a research plan phase by phase. It starts by invoking academic-baseline as the standing policy layer, dispatches subagents for independent tasks, invokes replication-driven-research as a guardrail, and runs two-stage review at phase boundaries: correctness first, reproducibility second…”
- name
- execute-plan
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/execute-plan of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8
Compare with similar skills
Execute Plan next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Execute Plan this skillbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.5k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Executing Plans Inlineobra/superpowers | 296k | 2 repos | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Interview Meaddyosmani/agent-skills | 103k | 6 repos | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| OpenSpec Guided OnboardingFission-AI/OpenSpec | 71k | 1 repos | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Writing Plansgeeksblabla/stateofdev.ma | 163 | 57 repos | ~661 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Subagent Driven DevelopmentAsvarox/allkaraoke | 261 | 38 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | None |
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Questions about Execute Plan
What does Execute Plan do?
A skill your agent uses when a research implementation plan exists in docs/superpapers/plans/ and the user is ready to execute it — collecting data, running analysis, producing outputs, writing the…. Execute Plan is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Use when a research implementation plan exists in docs/superpapers/plans/ and the user is ready to execute it — collecting data, running analysis, producing outputs, writing the paper.
When should I use Execute Plan?
Execute Plan fits situations like: A research implementation plan exists in docs/superpapers/plans/ and the user is ready to execute it — collecting data; running analysis; producing outputs; writing the paper.
How do I install Execute Plan in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill execute-plan -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/execute-plan in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/execute-plan in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Execute Plan in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill execute-plan -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/execute-plan in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/execute-plan in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Execute Plan in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill execute-plan -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/execute-plan, .gemini/skills/execute-plan, .github/skills/execute-plan and .opencode/skills/execute-plan in your project.
What does Execute Plan need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Execute Plan is instructions for the agent only.
Does Execute Plan access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Execute Plan safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Execute Plan use?
Execute Plan has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.
How many tokens does Execute Plan use?
About 2.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Execute Plan?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Execute Plan: Executing Plans Inline (obra/superpowers, 296k stars), Interview Me (addyosmani/agent-skills, 103k stars), OpenSpec Guided Onboarding (Fission-AI/OpenSpec, 71k stars) and Writing Plans (geeksblabla/stateofdev.ma, 163 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Execute Plan?
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,529 GitHub stars. The repository holds 364 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.
Source: brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.