@agent-plan/mcp 0.2.19-next.9 → 0.2.20

package/dist/index.d.ts.map

@@ -1 +1 @@
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+{"version":3,"file":"index.d.ts","sourceRoot":"","sources":["../src/index.ts"],"names":[],"mappings":";AA+vCA,wBAAsB,gBAAgB,IAAI,OAAO,CAAC,IAAI,CAAC,CAItD"}

package/dist/index.js

@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ import { StdioServerTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/stdio.js"
 import * as z from "zod/v4";
 import { join } from "node:path";
 import { pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
-import { PlanStore, ExportService, withFeatureLock, needsMotivation, findPhaseByRef, findTaskByRef, buildRecap, migrateToGlobalSequence } from "@agent-plan/core";
+import { PlanStore, ExportService, withFeatureLock, needsMotivation, findPhaseByRef, findTaskByRef, buildRecap, addChecklistItem, removeChecklistItem, toggleChecklistItem, buildPhaseContextBlock, checkExplicitTaskStart, recommendNextTask } from "@agent-plan/core";
 import { serve } from "@agent-plan/server";
-import { createChecklistItemId, createFeatureId, createPhaseId, createShortId, createTaskId, clampSlug, normalizeSlug, formatPhaseRef, formatFeatureRef } from "@agent-plan/core/naming";
+import { createChecklistItemId, createFeatureId, createPhaseId, createTaskId, clampSlug, normalizeSlug, formatPhaseRef, formatFeatureRef, validateResolvedTarget } from "@agent-plan/core/naming";
 const STATUS_VALUES = ["planned", "in-progress", "done", "blocked", "canceled", "rejected", "deferred", "waiting"];
 const PHASE_STATUS_VALUES = ["draft", "discovery", ...STATUS_VALUES];
 function text(textValue, structuredContent) {
@@ -27,15 +27,10 @@ async function requireStore() {
     const st = store();
     if (!(await st.exists()))
         throw new Error(`No .planner/ found at ${st.root}. Use planner-init first.`);
-    // One-time idempotent backfill of shortId + priority (safe, best-effort).
-    if (!planBackfillDone) {
-        planBackfillDone = true;
-        await st.ensureShortIdsAndPriority().catch(() => { });
-        await migrateToGlobalSequence(st).catch(() => { });
-    }
+    // Opening a plan is read-only. Global migrations/backfills are explicit
+    // maintenance commands; running them here rewrites unrelated feature files.
     return st;
 }
-let planBackfillDone = false;
 // In-process web server handle, managed by the planner-web tool and planner-load.
 // Lives as long as this MCP stdio process (i.e. the host session). Null when not running.
 let webHandle = null;
@@ -58,10 +53,50 @@ async function ensureWebStarted() {
 }
 function findFeatureByRef(features, ref) {
     const normalized = ref.trim().toLowerCase();
-    return features.find((feature) => feature.id.toLowerCase() === normalized)
+    if (!normalized)
+        return undefined;
+    const fMatch = normalized.match(/^f(\d+)$/);
+    if (fMatch) {
+        const n = parseInt(fMatch[1], 10);
+        const byNum = features.find((feature) => feature.number === n);
+        if (byNum)
+            return byNum;
+    }
+    return features.find((feature) => feature.shortId?.toLowerCase() === normalized)
+        ?? features.find((feature) => feature.id.toLowerCase() === normalized)
         ?? features.find((feature) => feature.name.toLowerCase() === normalized)
         ?? features.find((feature) => feature.name.toLowerCase().includes(normalized));
 }
+function resolveFeatureRefStrict(features, ref) {
+    const raw = ref.trim();
+    if (!raw)
+        return { ok: false, error: "Feature ref is required." };
+    const normalized = raw.toLowerCase();
+    const byNumber = normalized.match(/^f(\d+)$/)
+        ? features.find((feature) => feature.number === parseInt(normalized.slice(1), 10))
+        : undefined;
+    if (byNumber)
+        return { ok: true, feature: byNumber };
+    const byShortId = features.find((feature) => feature.shortId?.toLowerCase() === normalized);
+    if (byShortId)
+        return { ok: true, feature: byShortId };
+    const byId = features.find((feature) => feature.id.toLowerCase() === normalized);
+    if (byId)
+        return { ok: true, feature: byId };
+    const exactName = features.filter((feature) => feature.name.toLowerCase() === normalized);
+    if (exactName.length === 1)
+        return { ok: true, feature: exactName[0] };
+    if (exactName.length > 1)
+        return { ok: false, error: `Ambiguous feature ref: ${raw}. Multiple features have that exact name; use F00x, shortId, or UUID.` };
+    const partialName = features.filter((feature) => feature.name.toLowerCase().includes(normalized));
+    if (partialName.length === 1)
+        return { ok: true, feature: partialName[0] };
+    if (partialName.length > 1)
+        return { ok: false, error: `Ambiguous feature ref: ${raw}. Matches: ${partialName.map((feature) => formatFeatureRef(feature.number)).join(", ")}. Use a specific F00x, shortId, or UUID.` };
+    return { ok: false, error: `Feature not found: ${raw}` };
+}
+/** Belt-and-suspenders validation: a resolved ref must be a real UUID and the target
+ *  must still exist in the store before we allocate numbers or write. */
 function featureNumberOfPhase(phase, features) {
     return phase.featureId ? features.find((f) => f.id === phase.featureId)?.number : undefined;
 }
@@ -97,16 +132,12 @@ async function resolvePhaseForHandoff(st, ref) {
     if (ref && ref.trim()) {
         phase = findPhaseByRef(phases, features, ref.trim());
     }
-    else {
-        phase = phases.find((p) => p.status === "in-progress")
-            ?? phases.find((p) => p.tasks.some((t) => t.status === "in-progress"));
-    }
     if (!phase) {
         return {
             ok: false,
             error: ref && ref.trim()
                 ? `Phase not found: "${ref.trim()}". Use P00x, P00x(F00x), UUID, or title.`
-                : "No in-progress phase. Specify a phaseRef (P00x or P00x(F00x)).",
+                : "A phaseRef is required. First identify the exact feature and phase with the user, then pass P00x or P00x(F00x).",
         };
     }
     const feat = phase.featureId ? features.find((f) => f.id === phase.featureId) : undefined;
@@ -124,7 +155,7 @@ server.registerTool("planner-export", {
     const markdown = exportService.exportToMarkdown(plan, full);
     const fs = await import("node:fs/promises");
     await fs.writeFile(join(st.root, "EXPORT.md"), markdown, "utf-8");
-    return text(`Project export generated. Summary results:\n\n${markdown.slice(0, 1000)}${markdown.length > 1000 ? "... (full report in .planner/EXPORT.md)" : ""}`, { markdown });
+    return text(`Project export generated. Summary results:\n\n${markdown.slice(0, 1000)}${markdown.length > 1000 ? "... (full report in .planner/EXPORT.md)" : ""}`);
 });
 server.registerTool("planner-authorize-bypass", {
     description: "Authorize a temporary guard bypass (default 15 minutes) so edit/write tools can proceed even when no task is in-progress. Use ONLY after the user explicitly authorizes proceeding without a task. Harness-agnostic: stored in resume.json so all adapters (Pi, Claude Code, Codex, ...) respect it.",
@@ -165,26 +196,77 @@ server.registerTool("planner-init", {
     return writeAndSummarize(st, `.planner/ initialized for "${project.name}"`);
 });
 server.registerTool("planner-show", {
-    description: "Show the current planner overview.",
+    description: "Show a compact planner overview: project metadata, counts, and a one-line summary of each feature (F00x · shortId — name (status; N phases, M tasks)). Does NOT include full descriptions, phases, or tasks — use planner-feature-list / planner-phase-list / planner-task-list for discovery and planner-*-show for full detail of a single entity. Keeps the result small to avoid token overflow.",
 }, async () => {
     const st = await requireStore();
-    const plan = await st.loadAll();
-    return text([
-        `📋 ${plan.project.name}`,
-        `Description: ${plan.project.description || "(not set)"}`,
-        `Goal: ${plan.project.goal || "(not set)"}`,
-        `Features: ${plan.features.features.length}`,
-        `Phases: ${plan.phases.length}`,
-        `Tasks: ${plan.phases.reduce((total, phase) => total + phase.tasks.length, 0)}`,
-        `Updated: ${plan.manifest.updatedAt}`,
-    ].join("\n"), { plan });
+    const features = (await st.loadFeatures()).features;
+    const phases = await st.loadAllPhases();
+    const totalTasks = phases.reduce((total, phase) => total + phase.tasks.length, 0);
+    const project = await st.loadProject();
+    const manifest = await st.loadManifest();
+    const featureLines = features.map((feature) => {
+        const featurePhases = phases.filter((phase) => phase.featureId === feature.id);
+        const taskCount = featurePhases.reduce((total, phase) => total + phase.tasks.length, 0);
+        return `- ${formatFeatureRef(feature.number)}${feature.shortId ? ` · ${feature.shortId}` : ""} — ${feature.name} (${feature.status}; ${featurePhases.length} phases, ${taskCount} tasks)`;
+    });
+    const summary = [
+        `📋 ${project.name}`,
+        `Description: ${project.description || "(not set)"}`,
+        `Goal: ${project.goal || "(not set)"}`,
+        `Features: ${features.length}  |  Phases: ${phases.length}  |  Tasks: ${totalTasks}`,
+        `Updated: ${manifest.updatedAt || "(unknown)"}`,
+        "",
+        "Features:",
+        featureLines.join("\n") || "(none)",
+    ].join("\n");
+    // Compact structured overview (no full plan: avoids 1M+ char token overflow).
+    const overview = {
+        project: { name: project.name, description: project.description || null, goal: project.goal || null, updatedAt: manifest.updatedAt || null },
+        counts: { features: features.length, phases: phases.length, tasks: totalTasks },
+        features: features.map((feature) => ({
+            ref: formatFeatureRef(feature.number),
+            shortId: feature.shortId || null,
+            name: feature.name,
+            status: feature.status,
+            phases: phases.filter((p) => p.featureId === feature.id).length,
+            tasks: phases.filter((p) => p.featureId === feature.id).reduce((t, p) => t + p.tasks.length, 0),
+        })),
+    };
+    return text(summary, { overview });
 });
 server.registerTool("planner-repair", {
     description: "Repair dangling feature→phase references, rebuild phase containment from each task's own phaseId (heals the migrateToGlobalSequence task-shuffle bug where tasks land in the wrong phase file), and report integrity.",
 }, async () => {
     const st = await requireStore();
     const report = await st.repair();
-    return text(`Repair done: renamed ${report.migrated.renamed}, repaired ${report.migrated.repaired} refs, inferred ${report.migrated.inferred}. Containment: ${report.containment.changed} phase files rewritten (${report.containment.tasks} tasks scanned, ${report.containment.orphan} orphan). Integrity: ${report.integrity.duplicatePhaseIds.length} duplicate, ${report.integrity.danglingPhaseIds.length} dangling.`, { report });
+    return text(`Repair done: renamed ${report.migrated.renamed}, repaired ${report.migrated.repaired} refs, inferred ${report.migrated.inferred}. Containment: ${report.containment.changed} phase files rewritten (${report.containment.tasks} tasks scanned, ${report.containment.orphan} orphan). Handoffs: archived ${report.handoffs.archived} stale completed/canceled handoff(s). Integrity: ${report.integrity.duplicatePhaseIds.length} duplicate, ${report.integrity.danglingPhaseIds.length} dangling.`, { report });
+});
+server.registerTool("planner-cleanup-orphan-phases", {
+    description: "Discover phase files that no longer resolve to a valid owning feature, and optionally delete them. Run once with confirm=false (default) to inspect, then rerun with confirm=true to remove them.",
+    inputSchema: {
+        confirm: z.boolean().optional().describe("Set true to actually delete the discovered orphan phase files. Default: false (dry-run/list only)."),
+    },
+}, async ({ confirm }) => {
+    const st = await requireStore();
+    const found = await st.listOrphanPhases();
+    if (!confirm) {
+        if (found.length === 0)
+            return text("No orphan phases found.", { found: [] });
+        const lines = [
+            `Found ${found.length} orphan phase${found.length === 1 ? "" : "s"}.`,
+            ...found.map((phase) => `- ${phase.compositeRef}${phase.shortId ? ` · ${phase.shortId}` : ""} — ${phase.title} (${phase.reason})`),
+            "Rerun with confirm=true to delete these orphan phase files.",
+        ];
+        return text(lines.join("\n"), { found, confirmRequired: true });
+    }
+    const report = await st.cleanupOrphanPhases();
+    if (report.removed.length === 0)
+        return text("No orphan phases found.", report);
+    const lines = [
+        `Removed ${report.removed.length} orphan phase${report.removed.length === 1 ? "" : "s"}.`,
+        ...report.removed.map((phase) => `- ${phase.compositeRef}${phase.shortId ? ` · ${phase.shortId}` : ""} — ${phase.title}`),
+    ];
+    return text(lines.join("\n"), report);
 });
 server.registerTool("planner-project-language", {
     description: "Persist preferred languages for plan content and chat.",
@@ -311,15 +393,17 @@ server.registerTool("planner-feature-add", {
     const timestamp = nowISO();
     const effectiveStatus = status ?? "planned";
     const existingFeatures = (await st.loadFeatures()).features;
-    const shortId = createShortId(await st.assignedShortIds());
+    const id = createFeatureId();
+    const identity = await st.allocateEntityIdentity("feature", id);
     const priority = await st.nextPriority("feature");
     const feature = {
-        id: createFeatureId(),
-        number: await st.allocFeatureNumber(),
-        shortId,
+        id,
+        number: identity.number,
+        shortId: identity.shortId,
         priority,
         name: name.trim(),
         description: description?.trim() ?? "",
+        descriptionUpdatedAt: timestamp,
         status: effectiveStatus,
         discussedAt: "",
         contextReady: false,
@@ -331,6 +415,7 @@ server.registerTool("planner-feature-add", {
         acceptedDecisions: [],
         phaseIds: [],
         dependsOn: [],
+        statusLog: [],
         createdAt: timestamp,
         updatedAt: timestamp,
     };
@@ -346,13 +431,51 @@ server.registerTool("planner-feature-show", {
 }, async ({ feature: ref, full }) => {
     const st = await requireStore();
     const features = (await st.loadFeatures()).features;
-    const feature = findFeatureByRef(features, ref);
-    if (!feature)
-        return text(`Feature not found: ${ref}`);
+    const resolvedFeature = resolveFeatureRefStrict(features, ref);
+    if (!resolvedFeature.ok)
+        return text(resolvedFeature.error);
+    const feature = resolvedFeature.feature;
     const phases = (await st.loadAllPhases()).filter((phase) => phase.featureId === feature.id);
     const summary = `${feature.name} — ${formatFeatureRef(feature.number)}${feature.shortId ? ` · ${feature.shortId}` : ""} (${feature.status}; ${phases.length} phases)`;
     return text(full ? `${summary}\n\n${feature.description || ""}` : summary);
 });
+server.registerTool("planner-feature-discuss", {
+    description: "Persist feature discovery/governance fields and mark the feature context as ready.",
+    inputSchema: {
+        feature: z.string().min(1).describe("Feature ref. Accepts F00x, shortId, UUID, or title."),
+        description: z.string().optional().describe("Current implementation state, scope, and goals for this feature."),
+        workDone: z.string().optional().describe("What is already implemented / decided."),
+        workRemaining: z.string().optional().describe("What still needs to be done."),
+        dependencies: z.array(z.string()).optional().describe("Cross-feature or external dependencies."),
+    },
+}, async ({ feature: ref, description, workDone, workRemaining, dependencies }) => {
+    const st = await requireStore();
+    const features = (await st.loadFeatures()).features;
+    const resolvedFeature = resolveFeatureRefStrict(features, ref);
+    if (!resolvedFeature.ok)
+        return text(resolvedFeature.error);
+    const feature = resolvedFeature.feature;
+    const updated = await st.updateFeatures((doc) => {
+        const target = doc.features.find((entry) => entry.id === feature.id);
+        if (!target)
+            return doc;
+        if (description !== undefined)
+            target.description = description.trim();
+        if (workDone !== undefined)
+            target.workDone = workDone.trim();
+        if (workRemaining !== undefined)
+            target.workRemaining = workRemaining.trim();
+        if (dependencies !== undefined)
+            target.dependsOn = dependencies.map((item) => item.trim()).filter(Boolean);
+        target.discussedAt = nowISO();
+        target.contextReady = true;
+        target.contextReadyReason = "Updated through planner-feature-discuss MCP tool.";
+        target.updatedAt = nowISO();
+        return doc;
+    });
+    const result = updated.features.find((entry) => entry.id === feature.id);
+    return writeAndSummarize(st, `✅ Feature discussed/updated: ${formatFeatureRef(result.number)} — ${result.name}${result.shortId ? ` · ${result.shortId}` : ""}`);
+});
 server.registerTool("planner-feature-update", {
     description: "Update a feature.",
     inputSchema: {
@@ -369,9 +492,10 @@ server.registerTool("planner-feature-update", {
 }, async ({ feature: ref, ...updates }) => {
     const st = await requireStore();
     const features = (await st.loadFeatures()).features;
-    const feature = findFeatureByRef(features, ref);
-    if (!feature)
-        return text(`Feature not found: ${ref}`);
+    const resolvedFeature = resolveFeatureRefStrict(features, ref);
+    if (!resolvedFeature.ok)
+        return text(resolvedFeature.error);
+    const feature = resolvedFeature.feature;
     const updated = await st.updateFeatures((doc) => {
         const target = doc.features.find((entry) => entry.id === feature.id);
         if (!target)
@@ -407,9 +531,10 @@ server.registerTool("planner-feature-delete", {
 }, async ({ feature: ref, cascade }) => {
     const st = await requireStore();
     const features = (await st.loadFeatures()).features;
-    const feature = findFeatureByRef(features, ref);
-    if (!feature)
-        return text(`Feature not found: ${ref}`);
+    const resolvedFeature = resolveFeatureRefStrict(features, ref);
+    if (!resolvedFeature.ok)
+        return text(resolvedFeature.error);
+    const feature = resolvedFeature.feature;
     const phases = (await st.loadAllPhases()).filter((phase) => phase.featureId === feature.id);
     await st.updateFeatures((doc) => {
         doc.features = doc.features.filter((entry) => entry.id !== feature.id);
@@ -428,31 +553,40 @@ server.registerTool("planner-feature-delete", {
     return writeAndSummarize(st, `Feature deleted: ${feature.id}${cascade ? `; deleted ${phases.length} phases` : `; unlinked ${phases.length} phases`}`, { deleted: feature.id, affectedPhases: phases.length, cascade: Boolean(cascade) });
 });
 server.registerTool("planner-phase-add", {
-    description: "Create a phase with a rich description. REQUIRED: description must include code references (file:line), current implementation state, dependencies, specific files/systems to modify, and behaviors to preserve. The description is the primary context for future agents; one-liners cause misalignment.",
+    description: "Create a phase linked to a feature with a rich description. REQUIRED: feature ref and description. The description must include code references (file:line), current implementation state, dependencies, specific files/systems to modify, and behaviors to preserve. The description is the primary context for future agents; one-liners cause misalignment.",
     inputSchema: {
         title: z.string().min(1),
-        feature: z.string().optional().describe("Feature ref. Accepts F00x/P00x/T00x composite, bare P00x/T00x (global), 5-char shortId, UUID, or title."),
+        feature: z.string().min(1).optional().describe("Feature ref (required). Accepts F00x/P00x/T00x composite, bare F00x (global), 5-char shortId, UUID, or title."),
         summary: z.string().optional().describe("One-line summary of the phase"),
         description: z.string().min(50, "Description must be at least 50 characters — include code references (file:line), current state, structs/traits involved, concrete work items, behaviors to preserve. Prefix with 'design-only' for pre-implementation design tasks.").describe("Required code references (file:line), current state, structs/traits involved, concrete work items, behaviors to preserve. Not a one-liner."),
     },
 }, async ({ title, feature: featureRef, summary, description }) => {
     const st = await requireStore();
+    if (!featureRef?.trim())
+        return text("feature is required: a phase must belong to a feature.");
     const featuresDoc = await st.loadFeatures();
-    const feature = featureRef ? findFeatureByRef(featuresDoc.features, featureRef) : featuresDoc.features[0];
-    if (featureRef && !feature)
-        return text(`Feature not found: ${featureRef}`);
+    const resolvedFeature = resolveFeatureRefStrict(featuresDoc.features, featureRef);
+    if (!resolvedFeature.ok)
+        return text(resolvedFeature.error);
+    const featureValidation = await validateResolvedTarget("feature", resolvedFeature.feature.id, () => st.loadFeatures().then((doc) => doc.features.find((f) => f.id === resolvedFeature.feature.id)).catch(() => undefined));
+    if (!featureValidation.ok)
+        return text(featureValidation.error);
+    const feature = resolvedFeature.feature;
+    if (!feature)
+        return text(`Resolved feature ${featureRef} no longer exists. Refusing to create phase.`);
     const lockKey = feature?.id ?? "__unscoped__";
     let phase;
     await withFeatureLock(lockKey, async () => {
         const phases = await st.loadAllPhases();
         const featurePhases = feature ? phases.filter((phase) => phase.featureId === feature.id) : phases;
         const timestamp = nowISO();
-        const shortId = createShortId(await st.assignedShortIds());
+        const id = createPhaseId();
+        const identity = await st.allocateEntityIdentity("phase", id);
         const priority = await st.nextPriority("phase", feature?.id);
         phase = {
-            id: createPhaseId(),
-            number: await st.allocPhaseNumber(),
-            shortId,
+            id,
+            number: identity.number,
+            shortId: identity.shortId,
             priority,
             slug: normalizeSlug(title),
             title: title.trim(),
@@ -463,6 +597,7 @@ server.registerTool("planner-phase-add", {
             contextReadyReason: "",
             summary: summary?.trim() ?? "",
             description: description?.trim() ?? "",
+            descriptionUpdatedAt: timestamp,
             notes: "",
             goals: [],
             nonGoals: [],
@@ -481,6 +616,7 @@ server.registerTool("planner-phase-add", {
             handoffUpdatedAt: "",
             handoffReadAt: "",
             handoffHistory: [],
+            statusLog: [],
         };
         await st.savePhase(phase);
         if (feature) {
@@ -498,7 +634,7 @@ server.registerTool("planner-phase-add", {
     return writeAndSummarize(st, `✅ Phase created: ${formatPhaseRef(phase.number, feature?.number)} — ${phase.title}${phase.shortId ? ` · ${phase.shortId}` : ""}`);
 });
 server.registerTool("planner-phase-show", {
-    description: "Show a phase by id or name.",
+    description: "Show a phase by id or name, including derived linked requirements in the full view.",
     inputSchema: { phase: z.string().min(1).describe("Phase ref. Accepts F00x/P00x/T00x composite, bare P00x/T00x (global), 5-char shortId, UUID, or title."), full: z.boolean().optional().describe("If true, include the phase description. Default: compact identity only (saves tokens).") },
 }, async ({ phase: ref, full }) => {
     const st = await requireStore();
@@ -506,8 +642,24 @@ server.registerTool("planner-phase-show", {
     const phase = findPhaseByRef(await st.loadAllPhases(), features, ref);
     if (!phase)
         return text(`Phase not found: ${ref}`);
-    const summary = `${phase.title} — ${formatPhaseRef(phase.number, featureNumberOfPhase(phase, features))}${phase.shortId ? ` · ${phase.shortId}` : ""} (${phase.status}; ${phase.tasks.length} tasks)`;
-    return text(full ? `${summary}\n\n${phase.description || ""}` : summary);
+    const linkedRequirements = await st.linkedRequirementsForPhase(phase.id);
+    const reqCount = linkedRequirements.length;
+    const summary = `${phase.title} — ${formatPhaseRef(phase.number, featureNumberOfPhase(phase, features))}${phase.shortId ? ` · ${phase.shortId}` : ""} (${phase.status}; ${phase.tasks.length} tasks${reqCount ? `; ${reqCount} linked requirement${reqCount === 1 ? "" : "s"}` : ""})`;
+    const requirementsBlock = reqCount > 0
+        ? `\n\nLinked requirements:\n${linkedRequirements.map((requirement) => `- ${requirement.title} (${requirement.status})`).join("\n")}`
+        : "";
+    return text(full ? `${summary}\n\n${phase.description || ""}${requirementsBlock}` : summary, {
+        phase: {
+            ref: formatPhaseRef(phase.number, featureNumberOfPhase(phase, features)),
+            shortId: phase.shortId,
+            title: phase.title,
+            summary: phase.summary,
+            status: phase.status,
+            taskCount: phase.tasks.length,
+            ...(full ? { description: phase.description } : {}),
+        },
+        linkedRequirements,
+    });
 });
 server.registerTool("planner-phase-discuss", {
     description: "Persist phase discovery fields and mark phase planned.",
@@ -603,35 +755,57 @@ server.registerTool("planner-phase-delete", {
 server.registerTool("planner-task-add", {
     description: "Create a task with a rich description. REQUIRED: description must include code references (file:line), what already exists vs what needs to be built, specific structs/traits/systems to modify, concrete implementation steps, and edge cases to handle. The description is the execution context for agents; one-liners cause misalignment.",
     inputSchema: {
+        feature: z.string().min(1).optional().describe("Feature ref the task's phase belongs to. Accepts F00x/P00x/T00x composite, bare F00x (global), 5-char shortId, UUID, or title. REQUIRED."),
         phase: z.string().min(1).describe("Phase ref. Accepts F00x/P00x/T00x composite, bare P00x/T00x (global), 5-char shortId, UUID, or title."),
         title: z.string().min(1),
         description: z.string().min(50, "Description must be at least 50 characters — include code references (file:line), current state vs desired state, structs/traits to modify, concrete implementation steps, edge cases. Prefix with 'design-only' for pre-implementation design tasks.").describe("Required code references (file:line), current state vs desired state, structs/traits to modify, concrete implementation steps, edge cases. Not a one-liner."),
         checklist: z.array(z.string()).optional(),
     },
-}, async ({ phase: ref, title, description, checklist }) => {
+}, async ({ feature: featureRef, phase: ref, title, description, checklist }) => {
     const st = await requireStore();
-    const found = findPhaseByRef(await st.loadAllPhases(), (await st.loadFeatures()).features, ref);
+    const features = (await st.loadFeatures()).features;
+    if (!featureRef?.trim())
+        return text("feature is required: a task must belong to a feature.");
+    const resolvedFeature = resolveFeatureRefStrict(features, featureRef);
+    if (!resolvedFeature.ok)
+        return text(resolvedFeature.error);
+    const featureValidation = await validateResolvedTarget("feature", resolvedFeature.feature.id, () => st.loadFeatures().then((doc) => doc.features.find((f) => f.id === resolvedFeature.feature.id)).catch(() => undefined));
+    if (!featureValidation.ok)
+        return text(featureValidation.error);
+    const feature = resolvedFeature.feature;
+    if (!feature)
+        return text(`Resolved feature ${featureRef} no longer exists. Refusing to create task.`);
+    const found = findPhaseByRef(await st.loadAllPhases(), features, ref);
     if (!found)
         return text(`Phase not found: ${ref}`);
+    if (found.featureId !== feature.id)
+        return text(`Phase ${formatPhaseRef(found.number, featureNumberOfPhase(found, features))} does not belong to feature ${formatFeatureRef(feature.number)}. Refusing to create task.`);
+    const phaseValidation = await validateResolvedTarget("phase", found.id, () => st.loadPhase(found.id).catch(() => undefined));
+    if (!phaseValidation.ok)
+        return text(phaseValidation.error);
+    const existingPhase = await st.loadPhase(found.id);
+    if (!existingPhase)
+        return text(`Resolved phase ${found.id} no longer exists. Refusing to create task.`);
     const timestamp = nowISO();
     const taskId = createTaskId();
-    const shortId = createShortId(await st.assignedShortIds());
+    const identity = await st.allocateEntityIdentity("task", taskId);
     const priority = await st.nextPriority("task", found.id);
     const task = {
         id: taskId,
         phaseId: found.id,
-        number: await st.allocTaskNumber(),
-        shortId,
+        number: identity.number,
+        shortId: identity.shortId,
         priority,
         shortName: clampSlug(title, 30, `task-${Date.now().toString(36)}`),
         title: title.trim(),
         status: "planned",
         description: description?.trim() ?? "",
+        descriptionUpdatedAt: timestamp,
         notes: "",
         statusLog: [],
         decisions: [],
         acceptedDecisions: [],
-        checklist: (checklist ?? []).map((item, index) => ({ id: createChecklistItemId(taskId, index + 1, item), title: item, checked: false })),
+        checklist: (checklist ?? []).map((item, index) => ({ id: createChecklistItemId(taskId, index + 1, item), number: index + 1, title: item, checked: false })),
         subtasks: [],
         dependsOn: [],
         startedAt: "",
@@ -645,8 +819,8 @@ server.registerTool("planner-task-add", {
         entry.updatedAt = timestamp;
         return entry;
     });
-    const features = (await st.loadFeatures()).features;
-    return writeAndSummarize(st, `✅ Task created: ${taskCompositeRef(task, found, features)} — ${task.title} (planned)${task.shortId ? ` · ${task.shortId}` : ""}`);
+    const finalFeatures = (await st.loadFeatures()).features;
+    return writeAndSummarize(st, `✅ Task created: ${taskCompositeRef(task, found, finalFeatures)} — ${task.title} (planned)${task.shortId ? ` · ${task.shortId}` : ""}`);
 });
 server.registerTool("planner-task-show", {
     description: "Show a task by id or name.",
@@ -683,7 +857,9 @@ server.registerTool("planner-task-discuss", {
         if (description !== undefined)
             task.description = description.trim();
         if (checklist !== undefined)
-            task.checklist = checklist.map((item, index) => ({ id: createChecklistItemId(task.id, index + 1, item), title: item, checked: false }));
+            task.checklist = checklist.map((item, index) => ({ id: createChecklistItemId(task.id, index + 1, item), number: index + 1, title: item, checked: false }));
+        if (checklist !== undefined)
+            task.checklist = checklist.map((item, index) => ({ id: createChecklistItemId(task.id, index + 1, item), number: index + 1, title: item, checked: false }));
         task.updatedAt = nowISO();
         phase.updatedAt = task.updatedAt;
         updatedTask = task;
@@ -702,8 +878,9 @@ server.registerTool("planner-task-update", {
         description: z.string().optional(),
         motivation: z.string().optional(),
         priority: z.number().int().nonnegative().optional().describe("Display order within the phase (lower = higher)."),
+        checklist: z.array(z.string()).optional().describe("Replace the task checklist (implementation steps, plain strings). Agents should tick steps via planner-task-checklist-toggle, not write DONE in titles."),
     },
-}, async ({ task: ref, title, status, description, motivation, priority }) => {
+}, async ({ task: ref, title, status, description, motivation, priority, checklist }) => {
     const st = await requireStore();
     const found = findTaskByRef(await st.loadAllPhases(), (await st.loadFeatures()).features, ref);
     if (!found)
@@ -750,6 +927,107 @@ server.registerTool("planner-task-update", {
     const t = updatedTask ?? found.task;
     return writeAndSummarize(st, `✅ Task updated: ${taskCompositeRef(t, found.phase, features)} — ${t.title} (${t.status})${t.shortId ? ` · ${t.shortId}` : ""}`);
 });
+server.registerTool("planner-task-checklist-toggle", {
+    description: "Tick/untick a task checklist item (a 'step') without rewriting the whole list. Accepts the item as C{n} (e.g. C2), the item id, or the title (case-insensitive, first match). Pass checked=true/false to set explicitly, or omit to toggle. Use this instead of writing DONE in step titles. Items are numbered C1/C2… per task.",
+    inputSchema: {
+        task: z.string().min(1).describe("Task ref: F00x/P00x/T00x, bare T00x (global), 5-char shortId, UUID, or title"),
+        item: z.string().min(1).describe("Checklist item selector: C{n} (e.g. C2), item id, or title (case-insensitive)"),
+        checked: z.boolean().optional().describe("Set explicitly: true=done, false=open. Omit to toggle."),
+    },
+}, async ({ task: ref, item, checked }) => {
+    const st = await requireStore();
+    const found = findTaskByRef(await st.loadAllPhases(), (await st.loadFeatures()).features, ref);
+    if (!found)
+        return text(`Task not found: ${ref}`);
+    let result = "";
+    await st.updatePhase(found.phase.id, (phase) => {
+        const task = phase.tasks.find((entry) => entry.id === found.task.id);
+        if (!task) {
+            result = `Task not found: ${ref}`;
+            return phase;
+        }
+        const ck = task.checklist ?? [];
+        if (ck.length === 0) {
+            result = `Task "${found.task.title}" has no checklist.`;
+            return phase;
+        }
+        const target = toggleChecklistItem(ck, item, checked);
+        if (!target) {
+            result = `No checklist item matching "${item}".`;
+            return phase;
+        }
+        task.updatedAt = nowISO();
+        phase.updatedAt = nowISO();
+        const doneCount = ck.filter((i) => i.checked).length;
+        result = `C${target.number} "${target.title}" → ${target.checked ? "done" : "open"} (${doneCount}/${ck.length} checked)`;
+        return phase;
+    });
+    return writeAndSummarize(st, `✅ ${result}`);
+});
+server.registerTool("planner-task-checklist-add", {
+    description: "Add a single checklist item (a 'step') to a task without rewriting the list. The new item is appended as C{n} (next progressive number, stable id, unchecked). Use this to subdivide a task into smaller steps INSTEAD of spawning sub-tasks — the checklist keeps description, notes, statusLog and steps concentrated in one task (sub-tasks disperse context). Also use for granular adds instead of replacing the whole checklist via planner-task-update.",
+    inputSchema: {
+        task: z.string().min(1).describe("Task ref: F00x/P00x/T00x, bare T00x (global), 5-char shortId, UUID, or title"),
+        title: z.string().min(1).describe("Checklist item text (a single step)"),
+    },
+}, async ({ task: ref, title }) => {
+    const st = await requireStore();
+    const found = findTaskByRef(await st.loadAllPhases(), (await st.loadFeatures()).features, ref);
+    if (!found)
+        return text(`Task not found: ${ref}`);
+    let result = "";
+    await st.updatePhase(found.phase.id, (phase) => {
+        const task = phase.tasks.find((entry) => entry.id === found.task.id);
+        if (!task) {
+            result = `Task not found: ${ref}`;
+            return phase;
+        }
+        const ck = task.checklist ?? [];
+        const item = addChecklistItem(ck, task.id, title);
+        ck.push(item);
+        task.checklist = ck;
+        task.updatedAt = nowISO();
+        phase.updatedAt = nowISO();
+        result = `Added C${item.number} "${item.title}" (${ck.length} items)`;
+        return phase;
+    });
+    return writeAndSummarize(st, `✅ ${result}`);
+});
+server.registerTool("planner-task-checklist-remove", {
+    description: "Remove a single checklist item (a 'step') from a task by C{n} (e.g. C2), item id, or title (case-insensitive). Remaining items are renumbered C1..Cn for readability; their stable ids are preserved. Use this for granular removes instead of replacing the whole checklist via planner-task-update.",
+    inputSchema: {
+        task: z.string().min(1).describe("Task ref: F00x/P00x/T00x, bare T00x (global), 5-char shortId, UUID, or title"),
+        item: z.string().min(1).describe("Checklist item selector: C{n} (e.g. C2), item id, or title (case-insensitive)"),
+    },
+}, async ({ task: ref, item }) => {
+    const st = await requireStore();
+    const found = findTaskByRef(await st.loadAllPhases(), (await st.loadFeatures()).features, ref);
+    if (!found)
+        return text(`Task not found: ${ref}`);
+    let result = "";
+    await st.updatePhase(found.phase.id, (phase) => {
+        const task = phase.tasks.find((entry) => entry.id === found.task.id);
+        if (!task) {
+            result = `Task not found: ${ref}`;
+            return phase;
+        }
+        const ck = task.checklist ?? [];
+        if (ck.length === 0) {
+            result = `Task "${found.task.title}" has no checklist.`;
+            return phase;
+        }
+        const removed = removeChecklistItem(ck, item);
+        if (!removed) {
+            result = `No checklist item matching "${item}".`;
+            return phase;
+        }
+        task.updatedAt = nowISO();
+        phase.updatedAt = nowISO();
+        result = `Removed C${removed.number} "${removed.title}" (${ck.length} items left)`;
+        return phase;
+    });
+    return writeAndSummarize(st, `✅ ${result}`);
+});
 server.registerTool("planner-task-delete", {
     description: "Delete a task.",
     inputSchema: { task: z.string().min(1) },
@@ -768,27 +1046,79 @@ server.registerTool("planner-task-delete", {
     const tdFeatures = (await st.loadFeatures()).features;
     return writeAndSummarize(st, `Task deleted: ${taskCompositeRef(found.task, found.phase, tdFeatures)}${found.task.shortId ? ` · ${found.task.shortId}` : ""}`, { deleted: found.task.id });
 });
+server.registerTool("planner-task-recommend", {
+    description: "Return the harness-agnostic recommended task: continue one active task, otherwise choose ready work by feature → phase → task priority. Reports dependency, availability, and approved deviation/resume context without starting or blocking work.",
+    inputSchema: {},
+}, async () => {
+    const st = await requireStore();
+    const [features, phases, project] = await Promise.all([st.loadFeatures(), st.loadAllPhases(), st.loadProject()]);
+    const result = recommendNextTask(features.features, phases, project.workDeviations);
+    if (!result.candidate)
+        return text(`No task recommendation: ${result.reason}`, { kind: result.kind, reason: result.reason, activeTaskIds: result.activeCandidates?.map((candidate) => candidate.task.id) ?? [] });
+    const { candidate } = result;
+    const ref = taskCompositeRef(candidate.task, candidate.phase, features.features);
+    return text(`Recommended (${result.kind}): ${ref} — ${candidate.task.title}\n${result.reason}${result.deviation ? `\nDeviation: ${result.deviation.id}; resume target ${result.deviation.resumeTaskId}.` : ""}`, {
+        kind: result.kind, taskId: candidate.task.id, phaseId: candidate.phase.id, featureId: candidate.feature?.id, deviation: result.deviation,
+    });
+});
+server.registerTool("planner-task-deviation", {
+    description: "Record a user-approved temporary task deviation. It preserves the recommended/resume task and never starts, pauses, or blocks work; use normal lifecycle tools for those transitions.",
+    inputSchema: { temporary_task: z.string().min(1), resume_task: z.string().min(1).optional(), reason: z.string().min(1) },
+}, async ({ temporary_task, resume_task, reason }) => {
+    const st = await requireStore();
+    const [features, phases, project] = await Promise.all([st.loadFeatures(), st.loadAllPhases(), st.loadProject()]);
+    const temporary = findTaskByRef(phases, features.features, temporary_task);
+    if (!temporary)
+        return text(`Task not found: ${temporary_task}`);
+    const selected = recommendNextTask(features.features, phases, project.workDeviations);
+    const resume = resume_task ? findTaskByRef(phases, features.features, resume_task) : selected.candidate;
+    if (!resume)
+        return text(`No resume task is available. Provide resume_task explicitly. ${selected.reason}`);
+    if (temporary.task.id === resume.task.id)
+        return text("A temporary task must differ from its resume target.");
+    if (temporary.task.status !== "planned")
+        return text(`Temporary task is not startable: ${temporary.task.status}.`);
+    const timestamp = nowISO();
+    const record = { id: crypto.randomUUID(), recommendedTaskId: selected.candidate?.task.id ?? resume.task.id, temporaryTaskId: temporary.task.id, resumeTaskId: resume.task.id, reason, requestedBy: "user", approvedBy: "user", state: "approved", createdAt: timestamp, activatedAt: "", resolvedAt: "" };
+    await st.addWorkDeviation(record);
+    return writeAndSummarize(st, `✅ Approved deviation: ${taskCompositeRef(temporary.task, temporary.phase, features.features)} temporarily overrides ${taskCompositeRef(resume.task, resume.phase, features.features)}. Resume target retained.`, { deviation: record });
+});
 server.registerTool("planner-task-start", {
-    description: "Set a task to in-progress.",
+    description: "Set a task to in-progress. BEFORE calling, use planner-task-show with full=true and planner-phase-show with full=true for the parent phase, including linked requirements. Continue an already in-progress task; otherwise select ready work by feature → phase → task priority (lower number first), respecting dependencies and blocked/waiting states. Returns a phase/requirements briefing.",
     inputSchema: { task: z.string().min(1) },
 }, async ({ task: ref }) => {
     const st = await requireStore();
-    const found = findTaskByRef(await st.loadAllPhases(), (await st.loadFeatures()).features, ref);
+    const features = (await st.loadFeatures()).features;
+    const found = findTaskByRef(await st.loadAllPhases(), features, ref);
     if (!found)
         return text(`Task not found: ${ref}`);
-    // Auto-archive the handoff on THIS task's phase (reason: task-started) — the
-    // agent is now actively working, so the captured context is consumed. Other
-    // phases' handoffs are left untouched (informational, non-blocking).
-    const allHandoffs = await st.listHandoffs();
-    let handoffNotice = "";
-    if ((found.phase.handoff ?? "") !== "") {
-        await st.clearPhaseHandoff(found.phase.id, "task-started").catch(() => { });
-        handoffNotice = "📦 Archived handoff for this phase (task started) — recover via planner-handoff-list + .planner/handoff-archive/.\n";
-    }
-    const _otherHandoffs = allHandoffs.filter((h) => h.phaseId !== found.phase.id);
-    if (_otherHandoffs.length > 0) {
-        handoffNotice += `ℹ️  ${_otherHandoffs.length} other phase handoff(s) pending — review with planner-handoff-list if relevant.\n`;
-    }
+    if (found.task.status === "in-progress")
+        return text(`Task ${found.task.id} is already in-progress.`);
+    if (found.task.status === "done")
+        return text(`Task ${found.task.id} is done. Use planner-task-update to reopen.`);
+    const project = await st.loadProject();
+    const phases = await st.loadAllPhases();
+    const eligibility = checkExplicitTaskStart(features, phases, found.task.id, project.workDeviations);
+    if (!eligibility.eligible)
+        return text(`Task start denied: ${eligibility.reason}`, { reason: eligibility.reason });
+    const selection = recommendNextTask(features, phases, project.workDeviations);
+    // Assemble the mandatory parent context before changing task lifecycle state.
+    const parentFeature = found.phase.featureId ? features.find((f) => f.id === found.phase.featureId) : undefined;
+    const [phaseWithRequirements, featureRequirements] = await Promise.all([
+        st.loadPhaseWithRequirements(found.phase.id),
+        parentFeature ? st.linkedRequirementsForFeature(parentFeature.id) : Promise.resolve([]),
+    ]);
+    const phaseContext = buildPhaseContextBlock(phaseWithRequirements, parentFeature, phaseWithRequirements.linkedRequirements ?? [], featureRequirements);
+    // A pending handoff is context, not a lock: task start RETAINS it. It is
+    // archived only when the phase completes (auto) or the user explicitly
+    // clears it.
+    const advisory = selection.kind === "conflict"
+        ? `\n\n⚠️ ${selection.reason} Explicit task request honored; reconcile active work before relying on automatic recommendations.`
+        : selection.candidate && selection.candidate.task.id !== found.task.id
+            ? selection.kind === "active"
+                ? `\n\n⚠️ Active-task advisory: ${taskCompositeRef(selection.candidate.task, selection.candidate.phase, features)} is already in progress. Explicit task request honored.`
+                : `\n\n⚠️ Priority advisory: ${taskCompositeRef(selection.candidate.task, selection.candidate.phase, features)} is the automatic recommendation. Explicit task request honored.`
+            : "";
     const timestamp = nowISO();
     let updatedTask;
     await st.updatePhase(found.phase.id, (phase) => {
@@ -813,9 +1143,11 @@ server.registerTool("planner-task-start", {
         return phase;
     });
     await st.syncTaskStatusRollup(found.phase.id);
-    const features = (await st.loadFeatures()).features;
+    const approvedDeviation = project.workDeviations.find((deviation) => deviation.temporaryTaskId === found.task.id && deviation.state === "approved");
+    if (approvedDeviation)
+        await st.setWorkDeviationState(approvedDeviation.id, "active", timestamp);
     const t = updatedTask ?? found.task;
-    return writeAndSummarize(st, `${handoffNotice}✅ Task started: ${taskCompositeRef(t, found.phase, features)} — ${t.title} (in-progress)${t.shortId ? ` · ${t.shortId}` : ""}`);
+    return writeAndSummarize(st, `✅ Task started: ${taskCompositeRef(t, found.phase, features)} — ${t.title} (in-progress)${t.shortId ? ` · ${t.shortId}` : ""}${phaseContext}${advisory}`);
 });
 server.registerTool("planner-task-complete", {
     description: "Set a task to done. Fails if checklist is incomplete unless force=true.",
@@ -860,6 +1192,11 @@ server.registerTool("planner-task-complete", {
         return phase;
     });
     const clearedRef = await st.syncTaskStatusRollup(found.phase.id);
+    const completedDeviation = (await st.loadProject()).workDeviations
+        .filter((deviation) => (deviation.state === "approved" || deviation.state === "active") && deviation.temporaryTaskId === found.task.id)
+        .sort((left, right) => right.createdAt.localeCompare(left.createdAt))[0];
+    if (completedDeviation)
+        await st.setWorkDeviationState(completedDeviation.id, "resolved", timestamp);
     const features = (await st.loadFeatures()).features;
     const t = updatedTask ?? found.task;
     return writeAndSummarize(st, `✅ Task completed: ${taskCompositeRef(t, found.phase, features)} — ${t.title} (done)${t.shortId ? ` · ${t.shortId}` : ""}${clearedRef ? ` — phase handoff auto-cleared (${clearedRef})` : ""}`);
@@ -875,8 +1212,8 @@ server.registerTool("planner-handoff-list", {
     return text(`Phase handoffs (${list.length}):\n${lines.join("\n")}`, { count: list.length, handoffs: list });
 });
 server.registerTool("planner-handoff-show", {
-    description: "Read the entity-scoped handoff of a phase. phaseRef accepts P00x, P00x(F00x), UUID, or title. Omit to target the current in-progress phase.",
-    inputSchema: { phaseRef: z.string().optional().describe("Phase ref: P00x | P00x(F00x) | UUID | title. Default: current in-progress phase.") },
+    description: "Read the entity-scoped handoff of a phase. phaseRef is required; never infer a phase from in-progress status or stale context.",
+    inputSchema: { phaseRef: z.string().min(1).describe("Exact phase ref: P00x | P00x(F00x) | UUID | title. Ask the user when ambiguous.") },
 }, async ({ phaseRef }) => {
     const st = await requireStore();
     const r = await resolvePhaseForHandoff(st, phaseRef);
@@ -888,36 +1225,61 @@ server.registerTool("planner-handoff-show", {
     return text(`Handoff for ${r.compositeRef}:\n\n${content}`, { phaseRef: r.compositeRef, phaseId: r.phase.id });
 });
 server.registerTool("planner-handoff-write", {
-    description: "Write/refresh the entity-scoped handoff on a phase. Pass content (markdown). phaseRef optional (default: current in-progress phase). Captures design context for a resuming agent on that phase.",
+    description: "Write/refresh the entity-scoped handoff on a phase. phaseRef is required and must be the exact phase selected with the user. Never guess from in-progress status or stale context; completed/canceled phases reject new handoffs. Pass content (markdown) and a meaningful title.",
     inputSchema: {
-        phaseRef: z.string().optional().describe("Phase ref. Default: current in-progress phase."),
+        phaseRef: z.string().min(1).describe("Exact confirmed phase ref: P00x | P00x(F00x) | UUID | title."),
+        title: z.string().min(3).optional().describe("Meaningful handoff title summarizing the work (becomes the H1 / first line in lists). REQUIRED if your markdown's first heading is generic. Example: 'P049 — featureId validation: tests + adapter wiring'."),
+        confirmed: z.boolean().describe("Set true only after the user explicitly confirms the proposed feature+phase target."),
         content: z.string().min(1).describe("Handoff text (markdown)."),
     },
-}, async ({ phaseRef, content }) => {
+}, async ({ phaseRef, title, confirmed, content }) => {
     const st = await requireStore();
+    let body = content.trim();
+    const firstLine = body.split(/\r?\n/).find((l) => l.trim().length > 0) ?? "";
+    const firstHeadingText = firstLine.replace(/^#+\s*/, "").trim();
+    const isGeneric = !firstHeadingText || /^(handoff|canonical handoff|session handoff)$/i.test(firstHeadingText);
+    if (!title && isGeneric) {
+        return text("❌ Generic handoff title. Provide a meaningful `title` (or start your markdown with a descriptive H1) summarizing the work — e.g. 'P049 — featureId validation: tests + adapter wiring'. Generic titles like 'Handoff' or 'Canonical handoff' are not accepted.");
+    }
+    if (title && title.trim()) {
+        const t = title.trim();
+        const lines = body.split(/\r?\n/);
+        const firstIdx = lines.findIndex((l) => l.trim().length > 0);
+        if (firstIdx !== -1 && /^#+\s/.test(lines[firstIdx] ?? "")) {
+            lines[firstIdx] = `# ${t}`;
+            body = lines.join("\n");
+        }
+        else {
+            body = `# ${t}\n\n${body}`;
+        }
+    }
     const r = await resolvePhaseForHandoff(st, phaseRef);
     if (!r.ok)
         return text(`❌ ${r.error}`);
-    await st.setPhaseHandoff(r.phase.id, content);
+    if (!confirmed)
+        return text(`Proposal only: I would write this handoff on ${r.compositeRef}. Ask the user to confirm this exact feature/phase, then retry with confirmed=true.`, { phaseRef: r.compositeRef, confirmationRequired: true });
+    await st.setPhaseHandoff(r.phase.id, body);
     return text(`✅ Wrote handoff on ${r.compositeRef}.`, { phaseRef: r.compositeRef, phaseId: r.phase.id });
 });
 server.registerTool("planner-handoff-prepare", {
-    description: "Return instructions for the agent to prepare a canonical handoff, then call planner-handoff-write (entity-scoped, phase.handoff).",
+    description: "Prepare a canonical handoff proposal. Do not write until the agent has identified the exact feature+phase from the conversation and the user has confirmed that target.",
 }, async () => text([
-    "Prepare the canonical session handoff and write it on the current in-progress phase with planner-handoff-write (omit phaseRef to target the in-progress phase).",
-    "Required sections: Created at, Updated at, Reason, Current focus, What was being done, How to resume, Files touched, Blockers, Next steps, Recent decisions, Reminder.",
-    "Stored on the phase.handoff field (entity-scoped). .planner/HANDOFF.md is deprecated.",
+    "First identify the exact feature and phase actually discussed/worked on in this session. Do not use the first in-progress phase and do not target a phase that just became done.",
+    "Before calling planner-handoff-write, tell the user: 'I propose writing this handoff on P00x(F00x) — <phase title>. Confirm?' Wait for explicit confirmation.",
+    "After confirmation, call planner-handoff-write with that exact phaseRef. If the phase is done/canceled, do not write an operational handoff.",
+    "Pass a meaningful title. Required sections: Created at, Updated at, Reason, Current focus, What was being done, How to resume, Files touched, Blockers, Next steps, Recent decisions, Reminder.",
+    "Stored on phase.handoff; .planner/HANDOFF.md is deprecated.",
 ].join("\n")));
 server.registerTool("planner-handoff-clear", {
-    description: "Clear the entity-scoped handoff of a phase (sets handoff to empty, keeps handoffUpdatedAt as an audit trail). phaseRef optional (default: current in-progress phase).",
-    inputSchema: { phaseRef: z.string().optional().describe("Phase ref. Default: current in-progress phase.") },
+    description: "Clear/archive the entity-scoped handoff of a phase. phaseRef is required; never infer a phase automatically.",
+    inputSchema: { phaseRef: z.string().min(1).describe("Exact phase ref: P00x | P00x(F00x) | UUID | title.") },
 }, async ({ phaseRef }) => {
     const st = await requireStore();
     const r = await resolvePhaseForHandoff(st, phaseRef);
     if (!r.ok)
         return text(`❌ ${r.error}`);
     await st.clearPhaseHandoff(r.phase.id, "manual");
-    return text(`✅ Cleared handoff on ${r.compositeRef} (handoffUpdatedAt preserved as audit; archived to .planner/handoff-archive/).`, { phaseRef: r.compositeRef, phaseId: r.phase.id });
+    return text(`✅ Cleared handoff on ${r.compositeRef} (handoffUpdatedAt preserved as audit; archived to .planner/.local/handoff-archive/).`, { phaseRef: r.compositeRef, phaseId: r.phase.id });
 });
 server.registerTool("planner-web", {
     description: "Manage the planner web dashboard (start/status/stop) from MCP stdio. Runs an in-process HTTP+WS server bound to LAN; it lives as long as this MCP process. plan-root comes from AGENT_PLAN_ROOT or cwd()/.planner.",
@@ -960,7 +1322,7 @@ server.registerTool("planner-web", {
     return text("planner-web not running. Use planner-web with action=start to start the dashboard.");
 });
 server.registerTool("planner-load", {
-    description: "Load/refresh the planner on explicit user request (NOT automatic): starts the web dashboard on LAN and returns a consolidated recap (project state, active task, pending handoff, web URL). This is the MCP equivalent of Pi /planner load. Call it ONLY when the user runs /planner load or /planner recap (or asks to load the planner). Present the recap to the user in that reply, including the web URL on a final prominent line. If a pending handoff is included, read it, summarize it to the user, then call planner-handoff-clear. Do NOT start the planner/web or show the web URL unless the user explicitly asks (load/recap/web status).",
+    description: "Load/refresh the planner on explicit user request (NOT automatic): starts the web dashboard on LAN and returns a consolidated recap (project state, active task, pending handoff, web URL). This is the MCP equivalent of Pi /planner load. Call it ONLY when the user runs /planner load or /planner recap (or asks to load the planner). Present the recap verbatim in that reply, including its final prominent Web UI line. A pending handoff is read-only context: NEVER call planner-handoff-show or planner-handoff-clear as part of load/recap. Archive it only when every phase task is done/canceled, when replacing it with a new handoff, or after an explicit user handoff-clear request. Do NOT start the planner/web or show the web URL unless the user explicitly asks (load/recap/web status).",
 }, async () => {
     const st = store();
     if (!(await st.exists()))

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@agent-plan/mcp",
-  "version": "0.2.19-next.9",
+  "version": "0.2.20",
   "private": false,
   "description": "MCP server for Agent Plan, exposing planner-* tools over stdio.",
   "license": "MIT",
@@ -17,9 +17,11 @@
     "dist/**/*.js",
     "dist/**/*.d.ts",
     "dist/**/*.d.ts.map",
+    "server.json",
     "README.md",
     "LICENSE"
   ],
+  "mcpName": "io.github.ovidius72/agent-plan",
   "publishConfig": {
     "access": "public"
   },
@@ -41,8 +43,8 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "^1.17.0",
     "zod": "^3.24.0",
-    "@agent-plan/core": "0.2.19-next.9",
-    "@agent-plan/server": "0.2.19-next.9"
+    "@agent-plan/core": "0.2.20",
+    "@agent-plan/server": "0.2.20"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "build": "tsc -p tsconfig.json",

package/server.json

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+{
+  "name": "io.github.ovidius72/agent-plan",
+  "version": "0.2.19-next.18",
+  "description": "MCP server for Agent Plan, exposing planner-* tools over stdio.",
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "https://github.com/ovidius72/agent-planner.git"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/ovidius72/agent-planner#readme",
+  "package": {
+    "type": "npm",
+    "name": "@agent-plan/mcp"
+  }
+}