Core workflow plugin for structured development following the Research → Plan → Implement → Validate cycle.
/stepwise-core:research_codebase- Document codebase as-is with comprehensive research/stepwise-core:create_plan- Create detailed implementation plans iteratively/stepwise-core:iterate_plan- Update existing implementation plans/stepwise-core:implement_plan- Execute plans phase by phase with validation/stepwise-core:validate_plan- Validate implementation against plan
codebase-locator- Find WHERE code lives in the codebasecodebase-analyzer- Understand HOW code workscodebase-pattern-finder- Find similar patterns to model afterthoughts-locator- Discover documents in thoughts/thoughts-analyzer- Extract insights from thoughts docs
thoughts-management- Manage thoughts/ directory with 3 bash scripts:thoughts-init- Initialize thoughts/ structurethoughts-sync- Sync hardlinks in searchable/thoughts-metadata- Generate git metadata
# Add marketplace
/plugin marketplace add nikeyes/stepwise-dev
# Install this plugin
/plugin install stepwise-core@stepwise-dev# 1. Research
/stepwise-core:research_codebase How does authentication work?
# 2. Plan
/stepwise-core:create_plan Add OAuth support
# 3. Implement
/stepwise-core:implement_plan @thoughts/shared/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-oauth.md
# 4. Validate
/stepwise-core:validate_plan @thoughts/shared/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-oauth.md- Keep context < 60% (attention threshold)
- Split work into phases
- Clear between phases, save to thoughts/
- Never lose research or decisions
- stepwise-git: Git commit workflow without Claude attribution
- stepwise-web: Web search and research capabilities
Apache License 2.0 - See LICENSE file for details.