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cross-agent-plan

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Get an independent implementation plan from a DIFFERENT AI agent over the repowire mesh before you build (e.g. have Gemini or Codex draft an approach for Claude to critique). Use when you want a second perspective on how to approach a task.

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Cross-agent plan

Ask a peer running a different agent backend to draft (or critique) a plan, so the planning perspective is genuinely independent.

Resolve the planner backend

  1. Explicit argument — if the user named a backend, use it.
  2. Configured default — else: 
    repowire config get skills.default_planner_backend
    (Empty output means unset.)
  3. Safe fallback — else pick an online peer on a backend different from yours, or ask the user. Never default to your own backend; never hardcode one.

Discover peers/backends: list_peers() (MCP) or repowire peer list (CLI).

Run the planning round

  1. Find (or, with the user's go-ahead, spawn — see delegate) a peer on the chosen backend.
  2. Send the task + constraints and ask for a concrete step-by-step plan.
    • MCP: ask(peer_name, "Draft an implementation plan for: <task + constraints>")
    • Tracked ask is MCP-only (no CLI lifecycle equivalent — repowire peer ask is a synchronous test utility, not this).
  3. ask returns a correlation_id; the peer replies via ack(corr_id, <plan>).
  4. Critique/merge the returned plan with your own; chain follow-ups with ask(reply_to=corr_id, ...).

Keep the brief tight — state the goal, the constraints, and what a good plan must cover, so the cross-agent plan is comparable to your own.