fix(skills): plans reference the spec instead of restating it — end to end (SUP-333 A)

Consolidates the reference-discipline change with every consumer of it,
so this PR is independently mergeable (previously split across two
stacked PRs whose intermediate state left the SDD spec reviewer blind).

writing-plans: plans reference the spec — never restate, paraphrase,
or summarize it; spec owns WHAT/WHY, plan owns HOW; cite by path in
the header (**Spec:** template line) and by section where a task needs
context; No Placeholders repetition stays intra-plan; no-spec branch
scoped to conversational-requirements-only (eval-caught: an agent used
an unscoped no-spec branch to skip writing the spec entirely).

brainstorming: spec path loophole closed (claude shortened
docs/superpowers/specs/ to docs/specs/, documented run); an existing
differently-named docs dir is not a "user preference".

subagent-driven-development: Spec Context section — the controller
reads the plan-cited spec and pastes cited sections into implementer
and spec-reviewer prompts; the spec reviewer's diff-only rule gets a
spec-document exception. Without this, reference discipline starves
the pipeline of requirements.

executing-plans: Step 1 reads the spec the plan cites (the
non-subagent path; plans are no longer self-contained).

Eval evidence (quorum, full-stack text): cost-spec-plan-duplication
claude 3/3 pass (RED: 5/5 agents failed), codex pass, pi pass (the
683-line duplication RED agent); sdd-spec-context-consumed functional
pass with deterministic dispatch-prompt check;
writing-plans-no-spec-conversational 2/2 pass;
triggering-writing-plans canary 3/3.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## Overview
Write comprehensive implementation plans assuming the engineer has zero context for our codebase and questionable taste. Document everything they need to know: which files to touch for each task, code, testing, docs they might need to check, how to test it. Give them the whole plan as bite-sized tasks. DRY. YAGNI. TDD. Frequent commits.
Write comprehensive implementation plans assuming the engineer has zero context for our codebase and questionable taste. Document everything they need to execute: which files to touch for each task, code, testing, docs they might need to check, how to test it. Give them the whole plan as bite-sized tasks. DRY. YAGNI. TDD. Frequent commits.
Assume they are a skilled developer, but know almost nothing about our toolset or problem domain. Assume they don't know good test design very well.
**Plans reference the spec; they never restate, paraphrase, or summarize it.** The spec owns the WHAT and WHY — requirements, acceptance criteria, design decisions; the plan owns the HOW — tasks, files, code, commands. Cite it by path in the header and by section where a task needs context. Reference discipline never means skipping the spec: if brainstorming produced one, it exists and the plan cites it. No Placeholders still requires repeating code and commands WITHIN the plan; copying FROM the spec is different: a step that needs a requirement's prose is under-specified — turn it into a concrete action. Snapshotting spec text into the plan hides drift, not prevents it. "Zero context" means each step is mechanically executable, not that the plan repeats the spec.
**Announce at start:** "I'm using the writing-plans skill to create the implementation plan."
**Context:** If working in an isolated worktree, it should have been created via the `superpowers:using-git-worktrees` skill at execution time.
**Save plans to:** `docs/superpowers/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<feature-name>.md`
- (User preferences for plan location override this default)
- (An explicit user instruction overrides this default; an existing differently-named docs directory does not)
## Scope Check
@@ -53,6 +55,8 @@ This structure informs the task decomposition. Each task should produce self-con
**Goal:** [One sentence describing what this builds]
**Spec:** [Path to the spec doc, e.g. `docs/superpowers/specs/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-design.md` — requirements and design decisions live there; do not restate them here. Only if no spec doc exists (requirements arrived conversationally; brainstorming never ran): write "none — requirements:" and state them once here, not per task]
**Architecture:** [2-3 sentences about approach]
**Tech Stack:** [Key technologies/libraries]