Kiro

Use planning-with-files with Kiro: Agent Skills, optional Steering (created by bootstrap), and on-disk markdown under .kiro/plan/.

Official references:

Agent Skills
Steering (inclusion modes, #[[file:path]] live file references)

What ships in this repo

Only the workspace skill folder:

.kiro/skills/planning-with-files/
├── SKILL.md
├── references/          # manus-principles, planning-rules, planning-templates
└── assets/
    ├── scripts/         # bootstrap, session-catchup, check-complete (.sh + .ps1 + .py)
    └── templates/       # task_plan, findings, progress, planning-context (steering)

Running bootstrap (from the project root) creates:

Path	Role
`.kiro/plan/task_plan.md`	Goal, phases, decisions, errors
`.kiro/plan/findings.md`	Research and technical decisions
`.kiro/plan/progress.md`	Session log
`.kiro/steering/planning-context.md`	`inclusion: auto` + `#[[file:.kiro/plan/…]]`

Design note: hooks are not installed by default. Hooks are workspace-wide. This integration uses the skill, generated steering, and the [Planning Active] reminder in SKILL.md.

Install into your project

bash

git clone https://github.com/OthmanAdi/planning-with-files.git
mkdir -p .kiro/skills
cp -r planning-with-files/.kiro/skills/planning-with-files ./.kiro/skills/

Then from your project root:

bash

sh .kiro/skills/planning-with-files/assets/scripts/bootstrap.sh

Windows (PowerShell):

powershell

pwsh -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .kiro/skills/planning-with-files/assets/scripts/bootstrap.ps1

Import the skill in Kiro

Open Agent Steering & Skills in the Kiro panel.
Import a skill → local folder → .kiro/skills/planning-with-files
Or copy that folder to ~/.kiro/skills/planning-with-files for a global skill (scope).

Scripts (under the skill)

All paths are relative to the project root after you have copied .kiro/skills/planning-with-files/ into the project.

Script	Purpose
`assets/scripts/bootstrap.sh` / `bootstrap.ps1`	Create `.kiro/plan/*` and `planning-context.md` (idempotent)
`assets/scripts/session-catchup.py`	Print mtime + short summary of planning files
`assets/scripts/check-complete.sh` / `check-complete.ps1`	Report phase completion vs `.kiro/plan/task_plan.md`

Examples:

bash

sh .kiro/skills/planning-with-files/assets/scripts/check-complete.sh
$(command -v python3 || command -v python) \
  .kiro/skills/planning-with-files/assets/scripts/session-catchup.py "$(pwd)"

powershell

pwsh -File .kiro/skills/planning-with-files/assets/scripts/check-complete.ps1
python .kiro/skills/planning-with-files/assets/scripts/session-catchup.py (Get-Location)

Manus-style context engineering

The skill description and references/manus-principles.md document the filesystem-as-memory pattern discussed in Manus-style agent context engineering.

Template reference

See references/planning-templates.md for compact paste-friendly skeletons. To use them as manual steering in Kiro, copy that file into .kiro/steering/ and add the YAML front matter described at the top of that file.