diff --git a/plugins/corbits-skills/skills/plan/SKILL.md b/plugins/corbits-skills/skills/plan/SKILL.md
index b0822f163..a1f678c15 100644
--- a/plugins/corbits-skills/skills/plan/SKILL.md
+++ b/plugins/corbits-skills/skills/plan/SKILL.md
@@ -1,16 +1,37 @@
 ---
 name: plan
-description: Skywalker spawn recipe — plan director authors an agent-proof eng change plan. Does not implement. Does not file tracker issues.
+description: Skywalker spawn recipe — Counsel (plan) authors an agent-proof eng change plan. Does not implement. Does not file tracker issues.
+argument-hint: "[change target | spec]"
 ---
 
 # Plan
 
-You are Skywalker. This skill is a spawn recipe. You do not write the plan yourself.
+You are Skywalker. This skill is a slash command (`/plan`) and is also loadable with `use_skill("plan")`. You do not write the plan yourself. Do not implement. Do not ship product code. Do not file Linear or GitHub issues.
 
-Spawn `task(agent="plan")` with the operator args as the brief. Prefer a typed spawn: `intent="plan"`, `success_criteria`, `do_not`, `report_focus`.
+Spawn `task(agent="plan")` — Counsel — with the operator args as the brief. Prefer a typed spawn: `intent="plan"`, `success_criteria`, `do_not`, `report_focus`.
 
-The plan director authors files, acceptance criteria, non-goals, risks, and ordered steps. It does not ship code. Greybeard is the architecture gate, not this slash.
+Counsel is the plan lane only. Greybeard is the architecture gate, not this slash. A later `/implement` or `use_skill("dispatch")` ships the plan.
 
-This is not `/create-issue`. Do not file Linear or GitHub issues. If the operator wants tickets, they use `/create-issue` after the plan.
+## Brief to Counsel
 
-Use `ask_operator` if the change target is too fuzzy to brief plan.
+Pass whatever the operator gave you, plus enough for an agent-proof plan:
+
+- Change target / problem / desired outcome
+- Known constraints, paths, or specs
+- That Counsel must return: files/paths, acceptance criteria, non-goals, risks/open questions, and ordered steps a Builder can execute without guessing
+- That Counsel must not implement, ship, review as Critic, explore as primary, or run the fleet
+
+## When to ask first
+
+Use `ask_operator` if the change target is too fuzzy to brief Counsel. Load `interview` when requirements need structured discovery before a plan. Do not invent scope.
+
+## Hard rules
+
+- Spawn with `task(agent="plan")`. Do not author the plan on this session.
+- Do not ship code under this recipe — even a "tiny" DIY of the planned change is out of lane here. This slash is plan-only.
+- This is not `/create-issue`. Do not file Linear or GitHub issues. If the operator wants tickets, they use `/create-issue` after the plan.
+- Do not act as Greybeard, Builder, Critic, or Explorer.
+
+## After the report
+
+Synthesize Counsel's Summary / Findings / Blockers / Paths for the operator. Counsel's report is the artifact — do not write the plan to disk yourself.
diff --git a/tests/unit/corbits-skills-catalog.test.ts b/tests/unit/corbits-skills-catalog.test.ts
index ac0a83361..4d2964135 100644
--- a/tests/unit/corbits-skills-catalog.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/corbits-skills-catalog.test.ts
@@ -106,6 +106,17 @@ test("spawn-recipe skills contain task(agent=", async () => {
   }
 });
 
+test("plan skill spawns Counsel (plan) and does not ship", async () => {
+  const skill = await Bun.file(join(pluginRoot, "skills/plan/SKILL.md")).text();
+  expect(skill).toContain('task(agent="plan")');
+  expect(skill).toMatch(/Counsel/);
+  expect(skill).toMatch(/agent-proof/);
+  expect(skill).toMatch(/[Dd]o not (implement|ship)/);
+  expect(skill).toContain("/create-issue");
+  expect(skill).toContain('intent="plan"');
+  expect(skill).not.toContain(USER_INVOCABLE_FALSE);
+});
+
 test("create-issue selects Linear MCP, GitHub gh, and MEMORY.md preference", async () => {
   const skill = await Bun.file(join(pluginRoot, "skills/create-issue/SKILL.md")).text();
   expect(skill).toContain("mcp__linear__");