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+<purpose>
+
+Drive milestone phases autonomously — all remaining phases, a range via `--from N`/`--to N`, or a single phase via `--only N`. For each incomplete phase: discuss → plan → execute using Skill() flat invocations. Pauses only for explicit user decisions (grey area acceptance, blockers, validation requests). Re-reads ROADMAP.md after each phase to catch dynamically inserted phases.
+
+</purpose>
+
+<required_reading>
+
+Read all files referenced by the invoking prompt's execution_context before starting.
+
+</required_reading>
+
+<process>
+
+<step name="initialize" priority="first">
+
+## 1. Initialize
+
+Parse `$ARGUMENTS` for `--from N`, `--to N`, `--only N`, and `--interactive` flags:
+
+```bash
+FROM_PHASE=""
+if echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -qE '\-\-from\s+[0-9]'; then
+  FROM_PHASE=$(echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -oE '\-\-from\s+[0-9]+\.?[0-9]*' | awk '{print $2}')
+fi
+
+TO_PHASE=""
+if echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -qE '\-\-to\s+[0-9]'; then
+  TO_PHASE=$(echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -oE '\-\-to\s+[0-9]+\.?[0-9]*' | awk '{print $2}')
+fi
+
+ONLY_PHASE=""
+if echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -qE '\-\-only\s+[0-9]'; then
+  ONLY_PHASE=$(echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -oE '\-\-only\s+[0-9]+\.?[0-9]*' | awk '{print $2}')
+  FROM_PHASE="$ONLY_PHASE"
+fi
+
+INTERACTIVE=""
+if echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -q '\-\-interactive'; then
+  INTERACTIVE="true"
+fi
+```
+
+When `--only` is set, also set `FROM_PHASE` to the same value so existing filter logic applies.
+
+When `--interactive` is set, discuss runs inline with questions (not auto-answered), while plan and execute are dispatched as background agents. This keeps the main context lean — only discuss conversations accumulate — while preserving user input on all design decisions.
+
+Bootstrap via milestone-level init:
+
+```bash
+INIT=$(gtd-sdk query init.milestone-op)
+if [[ "$INIT" == @file:* ]]; then INIT=$(cat "${INIT#@file:}"); fi
+```
+
+Parse JSON for: `milestone_version`, `milestone_name`, `phase_count`, `completed_phases`, `roadmap_exists`, `state_exists`, `commit_docs`.
+
+**If `roadmap_exists` is false:** Error — "No ROADMAP.md found. Run `/gtd:new-milestone` first."
+**If `state_exists` is false:** Error — "No STATE.md found. Run `/gtd:new-milestone` first."
+
+Display startup banner:
+
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GTD ► AUTONOMOUS
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+ Milestone: {milestone_version} — {milestone_name}
+ Phases: {phase_count} total, {completed_phases} complete
+```
+
+If `ONLY_PHASE` is set, display: `Single phase mode: Phase ${ONLY_PHASE}`
+Else if `FROM_PHASE` is set, display: `Starting from phase ${FROM_PHASE}`
+If `TO_PHASE` is set, display: `Stopping after phase ${TO_PHASE}`
+If `INTERACTIVE` is set, display: `Mode: Interactive (discuss inline, plan+execute in background)`
+
+</step>
+
+<step name="discover_phases">
+
+## 2. Discover Phases
+
+Run phase discovery:
+
+```bash
+ROADMAP=$(gtd-sdk query roadmap.analyze)
+```
+
+Parse the JSON `phases` array.
+
+**Filter to incomplete phases:** Keep only phases where `disk_status !== "complete"` OR `roadmap_complete === false`.
+
+**Apply `--from N` filter:** If `FROM_PHASE` was provided, additionally filter out phases where `number < FROM_PHASE` (use numeric comparison — handles decimal phases like "5.1").
+
+**Apply `--to N` filter:** If `TO_PHASE` was provided, additionally filter out phases where `number > TO_PHASE` (use numeric comparison). This limits execution to phases up through the target phase.
+
+**Apply `--only N` filter:** If `ONLY_PHASE` was provided, additionally filter OUT phases where `number != ONLY_PHASE`. This means the phase list will contain exactly one phase (or zero if already complete).
+
+**If `TO_PHASE` is set and no phases remain** (all phases up to N are already completed):
+
+```
+All phases through ${TO_PHASE} are already completed. Nothing to do.
+```
+
+Exit cleanly.
+
+**If `ONLY_PHASE` is set and no phases remain** (phase already complete):
+
+```
+Phase ${ONLY_PHASE} is already complete. Nothing to do.
+```
+
+Exit cleanly.
+
+**Sort by `number`** in numeric ascending order.
+
+**If no incomplete phases remain:**
+
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GTD ► AUTONOMOUS ▸ COMPLETE 🎉
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+ All phases complete! Nothing left to do.
+```
+
+Exit cleanly.
+
+**Display phase plan:**
+
+```
+## Phase Plan
+
+| # | Phase | Status |
+|---|-------|--------|
+| 5 | Skill Scaffolding & Phase Discovery | In Progress |
+| 6 | Smart Discuss | Not Started |
+| 7 | Auto-Chain Refinements | Not Started |
+| 8 | Lifecycle Orchestration | Not Started |
+```
+
+**Fetch details for each phase:**
+
+```bash
+DETAIL=$(gtd-sdk query roadmap.get-phase ${PHASE_NUM})
+```
+
+Extract `phase_name`, `goal`, `success_criteria` from each. Store for use in execute_phase and transition messages.
+
+</step>
+
+<step name="execute_phase">
+
+## 3. Task Issue Work
+
+For the current phase, display the progress banner:
+
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GTD ► AUTONOMOUS ▸ Phase {N}/{T}: {Name} [████░░░░] {P}%
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+```
+
+Where N = current phase number (from the ROADMAP, e.g., 63), T = total milestone phases (from `phase_count` parsed in initialize step, e.g., 67). **Important:** T must be `phase_count` (the total number of phases in this milestone), NOT the count of remaining/incomplete phases. When phases are numbered 61-67, T=7 and the banner should read `Phase 63/7` (phase 63, 7 total in milestone), not `Phase 63/3` (which would confuse 3 remaining with 3 total). P = percentage of all milestone phases completed so far. Calculate P as: (number of phases with `disk_status` "complete" from the latest `roadmap analyze` / T × 100). Use █ for filled and ░ for empty segments in the progress bar (8 characters wide).
+
+**Alternative display when phase numbers exceed total** (e.g., multi-milestone projects where phases are numbered globally): If N > T (phase number exceeds milestone phase count), use the format `Phase {N} ({position}/{T})` where `position` is the 1-based index of this phase among incomplete phases being processed. This prevents confusing displays like "Phase 63/5".
+
+**3a. Smart Discuss**
+
+Check if CONTEXT.md already exists for this phase:
+
+```bash
+PHASE_STATE=$(gtd-sdk query init.phase-op ${PHASE_NUM})
+```
+
+Parse `has_context` from JSON.
+
+**If has_context is true:** Skip discuss — context already gathered. Display:
+
+```
+Phase ${PHASE_NUM}: Context exists — skipping discuss.
+```
+
+Proceed to 3b.
+
+**If has_context is false:** Check if discuss is disabled via settings:
+
+```bash
+SKIP_DISCUSS=$(gtd-sdk query config-get workflow.skip_discuss 2>/dev/null || echo "false")
+```
+
+**If SKIP_DISCUSS is `true`:** Skip discuss entirely — the ROADMAP phase description is the spec. Display:
+
+```
+Phase ${PHASE_NUM}: Discuss skipped (workflow.skip_discuss=true) — using ROADMAP phase goal as spec.
+```
+
+Write a minimal CONTEXT.md so downstream plan-phase has valid input. Get phase details:
+
+```bash
+DETAIL=$(gtd-sdk query roadmap.get-phase ${PHASE_NUM})
+```
+
+Extract `goal` and `requirements` from JSON. Write `${phase_dir}/${padded_phase}-CONTEXT.md` with:
+
+```markdown
+# Phase {PHASE_NUM}: {Phase Name} - Context
+
+**Gathered:** {date}
+**Status:** Ready for planning
+**Mode:** Auto-generated (discuss skipped via workflow.skip_discuss)
+
+<domain>
+## Phase Boundary
+
+{goal from ROADMAP phase description}
+
+</domain>
+
+<decisions>
+## Implementation Decisions
+
+### Claude's Discretion
+All implementation choices are at Claude's discretion — discuss phase was skipped per user setting. Use ROADMAP phase goal, success criteria, and codebase conventions to guide decisions.
+
+</decisions>
+
+<code_context>
+## Existing Code Insights
+
+Codebase context will be gathered during plan-phase research.
+
+</code_context>
+
+<specifics>
+## Specific Ideas
+
+No specific requirements — discuss phase skipped. Refer to ROADMAP phase description and success criteria.
+
+</specifics>
+
+<deferred>
+## Deferred Ideas
+
+None — discuss phase skipped.
+
+</deferred>
+```
+
+Commit the minimal context:
+
+```bash
+gtd-sdk query commit "docs(${PADDED_PHASE}): auto-generated context (discuss skipped)" --files "${phase_dir}/${padded_phase}-CONTEXT.md"
+```
+
+Proceed to 3b.
+
+**If SKIP_DISCUSS is `false` (or unset):**
+
+**IMPORTANT — Discuss must be single-pass in autonomous mode.**
+The discuss step in `--auto` mode MUST NOT loop. If CONTEXT.md already exists after discuss completes, do NOT re-invoke discuss for the same phase. The `has_context` check below is authoritative — once true, discuss is done for this phase regardless of perceived "gaps" in the context file.
+
+**If `INTERACTIVE` is set:** Run the standard discuss-phase skill inline (asks interactive questions, waits for user answers). This preserves user input on all design decisions while keeping plan+execute out of the main context:
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gtd-discuss-phase", args="${PHASE_NUM}")
+```
+
+**If `INTERACTIVE` is NOT set:** Execute the smart_discuss step for this phase (batch table proposals, auto-optimized).
+
+After discuss completes (either mode), verify context was written:
+
+```bash
+PHASE_STATE=$(gtd-sdk query init.phase-op ${PHASE_NUM})
+```
+
+Check `has_context`. If false → go to handle_blocker: "Discuss for phase ${PHASE_NUM} did not produce CONTEXT.md."
+
+**3a.5. UI Design Contract (Frontend Phases)**
+
+Check if this phase has frontend indicators and whether a UI-SPEC already exists:
+
+```bash
+PHASE_SECTION=$(gtd-sdk query roadmap.get-phase ${PHASE_NUM} 2>/dev/null)
+echo "$PHASE_SECTION" | grep -iE "UI|interface|frontend|component|layout|page|screen|view|form|dashboard|widget" > /dev/null 2>&1
+HAS_UI=$?
+UI_SPEC_FILE=$(ls "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-UI-SPEC.md 2>/dev/null | head -1)
+```
+
+Check if UI phase workflow is enabled:
+
+```bash
+UI_PHASE_CFG=$(gtd-sdk query config-get workflow.ui_phase 2>/dev/null || echo "true")
+```
+
+**If `HAS_UI` is 0 (frontend indicators found) AND `UI_SPEC_FILE` is empty (no UI-SPEC exists) AND `UI_PHASE_CFG` is not `false`:**
+
+Display:
+
+```
+Phase ${PHASE_NUM}: Frontend phase detected — generating UI design contract...
+```
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gtd-ui-phase", args="${PHASE_NUM}")
+```
+
+Verify UI-SPEC was created:
+
+```bash
+UI_SPEC_FILE=$(ls "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-UI-SPEC.md 2>/dev/null | head -1)
+```
+
+**If `UI_SPEC_FILE` is still empty after ui-phase:** Display warning `Phase ${PHASE_NUM}: UI-SPEC generation did not produce output — continuing without design contract.` and proceed to 3b.
+
+**If `HAS_UI` is 1 (no frontend indicators) OR `UI_SPEC_FILE` is not empty (UI-SPEC already exists) OR `UI_PHASE_CFG` is `false`:** Skip silently to 3b.
+
+**3b. Plan**
+
+**If `INTERACTIVE` is set:** Dispatch plan as a background agent to keep the main context lean. While plan runs, the workflow can immediately start discussing the next phase (see step 4).
+
+```
+Agent(
+  description="Plan phase ${PHASE_NUM}: ${PHASE_NAME}",
+  run_in_background=true,
+  prompt="Run plan-phase for phase ${PHASE_NUM}: Skill(skill=\"gtd-plan-phase\", args=\"${PHASE_NUM}\")"
+)
+```
+
+Store the agent task_id. After discuss for the next phase completes (or if no next phase), wait for the plan agent to finish before proceeding to execute.
+
+**If `INTERACTIVE` is NOT set (default):** Run plan inline as before.
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gtd-plan-phase", args="${PHASE_NUM}")
+```
+
+Verify plan produced output — re-run `init phase-op` and check `has_plans`. If false → go to handle_blocker: "Plan phase ${PHASE_NUM} did not produce any plans."
+
+**3c. Execute**
+
+**If `INTERACTIVE` is set:** Wait for the plan agent to complete (if not already), verify plans exist, then dispatch execute as a background agent:
+
+```
+Agent(
+  description="Execute phase ${PHASE_NUM}: ${PHASE_NAME}",
+  run_in_background=true,
+  prompt="Run task issue workflow for phase ${PHASE_NUM}: Skill(skill=\"gtd-export-phase-issues\", args=\"${PHASE_NUM}\") then Skill(skill=\"gtd-work-task-issue\", args=\"--phase ${PHASE_NUM}\")"
+)
+```
+
+Store the agent task_id. The workflow can now start discussing the next phase while this phase executes in the background. Before starting post-execution routing for this phase, wait for the execute agent to complete.
+
+**If `INTERACTIVE` is NOT set (default):** Run execute inline as before.
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gtd-export-phase-issues", args="${PHASE_NUM}")
+Skill(skill="gtd-work-task-issue", args="--phase ${PHASE_NUM}")
+```
+
+**3c.5. Code Review and Fix**
+
+Auto-invoke code review and fix chain. Autonomous mode chains both review and fix (unlike task issue work and quick mode, which only suggest fixes).
+
+**Config gate:**
+```bash
+CODE_REVIEW_ENABLED=$(gtd-sdk query config-get workflow.code_review 2>/dev/null || echo "true")
+```
+If `"false"`: display "Code review skipped (workflow.code_review=false)" and proceed to 3d.
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gtd-code-review", args="${PHASE_NUM}")
+```
+
+Parse status from REVIEW.md frontmatter. If "clean" or "skipped": proceed to 3d. If findings found: auto-invoke:
+```
+Skill(skill="gtd-code-review", args="${PHASE_NUM} --fix --auto")
+```
+
+**Error handling:** If either Skill fails, catch the error, display as non-blocking, and proceed to 3d.
+
+**3d. Post-Execution Routing**
+
+**If `INTERACTIVE` is set:** Wait for the execute agent to complete before reading verification results.
+
+After task issue work and finalization return (or the background agent completes), read the verification result:
+
+```bash
+VERIFY_STATUS=$(grep "^status:" "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-VERIFICATION.md 2>/dev/null | head -1 | cut -d: -f2 | tr -d ' ')
+```
+
+Where `PHASE_DIR` comes from the `init phase-op` call already made in step 3a. If the variable is not in scope, re-fetch:
+
+```bash
+PHASE_STATE=$(gtd-sdk query init.phase-op ${PHASE_NUM})
+```
+
+Parse `phase_dir` from the JSON.
+
+**If VERIFY_STATUS is empty** (no VERIFICATION.md or no status field):
+
+Go to handle_blocker: "Execute phase ${PHASE_NUM} did not produce verification results."
+
+**If `passed`:**
+
+Display:
+```
+Phase ${PHASE_NUM} ✅ ${PHASE_NAME} — Verification passed
+```
+
+Proceed to iterate step.
+
+**If `human_needed`:**
+
+Read the human_verification section from VERIFICATION.md to get the count and items requiring manual testing.
+
+
+**Text mode (`workflow.text_mode: true` in config or `--text` flag):** Set `TEXT_MODE=true` if `--text` is present in `$ARGUMENTS` OR `text_mode` from init JSON is `true`. When TEXT_MODE is active, replace every `AskUserQuestion` call with a plain-text numbered list and ask the user to type their choice number. This is required for non-Claude runtimes (OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, etc.) where `AskUserQuestion` is not available.
+Display the items, then ask user via AskUserQuestion:
+- **question:** "Phase ${PHASE_NUM} has items needing manual verification. Validate now or continue to next phase?"
+- **options:** "Validate now" / "Continue without validation"
+
+On **"Validate now"**: Present the specific items from VERIFICATION.md's human_verification section. After user reviews, ask:
+- **question:** "Validation result?"
+- **options:** "All good — continue" / "Found issues"
+
+On "All good — continue": Display `Phase ${PHASE_NUM} ✅ Human validation passed` and proceed to iterate step.
+
+On "Found issues": Go to handle_blocker with the user's reported issues as the description.
+
+On **"Continue without validation"**: Display `Phase ${PHASE_NUM} ⏭ Human validation deferred` and proceed to iterate step.
+
+**If `gaps_found`:**
+
+Read gap summary from VERIFICATION.md (score and missing items). Display:
+```
+⚠ Phase ${PHASE_NUM}: ${PHASE_NAME} — Gaps Found
+Score: {N}/{M} must-haves verified
+```
+
+Ask user via AskUserQuestion:
+- **question:** "Gaps found in phase ${PHASE_NUM}. How to proceed?"
+- **options:** "Run gap closure" / "Continue without fixing" / "Stop autonomous mode"
+
+On **"Run gap closure"**: Execute gap closure cycle (limit: 1 attempt):
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gtd-plan-phase", args="${PHASE_NUM} --gaps")
+```
+
+Verify gap plans were created — re-run `init phase-op ${PHASE_NUM}` and check `has_plans`. If no new gap plans → go to handle_blocker: "Gap closure planning for phase ${PHASE_NUM} did not produce plans."
+
+Re-execute:
+```
+Skill(skill="gtd-work-task-issue", args="--phase ${PHASE_NUM}")
+```
+
+Re-read verification status:
+```bash
+VERIFY_STATUS=$(grep "^status:" "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-VERIFICATION.md 2>/dev/null | head -1 | cut -d: -f2 | tr -d ' ')
+```
+
+If `passed` or `human_needed`: Route normally (continue or ask user as above).
+
+If still `gaps_found` after this retry: Display "Gaps persist after closure attempt." and ask via AskUserQuestion:
+- **question:** "Gap closure did not fully resolve issues. How to proceed?"
+- **options:** "Continue anyway" / "Stop autonomous mode"
+
+On "Continue anyway": Proceed to iterate step.
+On "Stop autonomous mode": Go to handle_blocker.
+
+This limits gap closure to 1 automatic retry to prevent infinite loops.
+
+On **"Continue without fixing"**: Display `Phase ${PHASE_NUM} ⏭ Gaps deferred` and proceed to iterate step.
+
+On **"Stop autonomous mode"**: Go to handle_blocker with "User stopped — gaps remain in phase ${PHASE_NUM}".
+
+**3d.5. UI Review (Frontend Phases)**
+
+> Run after any successful execution routing (passed, human_needed accepted, or gaps deferred/accepted) — before proceeding to the iterate step.
+
+Check if this phase had a UI-SPEC (created in step 3a.5 or pre-existing):
+
+```bash
+UI_SPEC_FILE=$(ls "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-UI-SPEC.md 2>/dev/null | head -1)
+```
+
+Check if UI review is enabled:
+
+```bash
+UI_REVIEW_CFG=$(gtd-sdk query config-get workflow.ui_review 2>/dev/null || echo "true")
+```
+
+**If `UI_SPEC_FILE` is not empty AND `UI_REVIEW_CFG` is not `false`:**
+
+Display:
+
+```
+Phase ${PHASE_NUM}: Frontend phase with UI-SPEC — running UI review audit...
+```
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gtd-ui-review", args="${PHASE_NUM}")
+```
+
+Display the review result summary (score from UI-REVIEW.md if produced). Continue to iterate step regardless of score — UI review is advisory, not blocking.
+
+**If `UI_SPEC_FILE` is empty OR `UI_REVIEW_CFG` is `false`:** Skip silently to iterate step.
+
+</step>
+
+<step name="smart_discuss">
+
+## Smart Discuss
+
+> Full instructions are in `get-tasks-done/references/autonomous-smart-discuss.md`. Read that file now and follow it exactly.
+
+Smart discuss is an autonomous-optimized variant of `gtd-discuss-phase`. It proposes grey area answers in batch tables — the user accepts or overrides per area — and writes an identical CONTEXT.md to what discuss-phase produces.
+
+**Inputs:** `PHASE_NUM` from execute_phase.
+
+Read and execute: `$HOME/.claude/get-tasks-done/references/autonomous-smart-discuss.md`
+
+</step>
+
+<step name="iterate">
+
+## 4. Iterate
+
+**If `ONLY_PHASE` is set:** Do not iterate. Proceed directly to lifecycle step (which exits cleanly per single-phase mode).
+
+**If `TO_PHASE` is set and current phase number >= `TO_PHASE`:** The target phase has been reached. Do not iterate further. Display:
+
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GTD ► AUTONOMOUS ▸ --to ${TO_PHASE} REACHED
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+ Completed through phase ${TO_PHASE} as requested.
+ Remaining phases were not executed.
+
+ Resume with: /gtd:autonomous --from ${next_incomplete_phase}
+```
+
+Proceed directly to lifecycle step (which handles partial completion — skips audit/complete/cleanup since not all phases are done). Exit cleanly.
+
+**Otherwise:** After each phase completes, re-read ROADMAP.md to catch phases inserted mid-execution (decimal phases like 5.1):
+
+```bash
+ROADMAP=$(gtd-sdk query roadmap.analyze)
+```
+
+Re-filter incomplete phases using the same logic as discover_phases:
+- Keep phases where `disk_status !== "complete"` OR `roadmap_complete === false`
+- Apply `--from N` filter if originally provided
+- Apply `--to N` filter if originally provided
+- Sort by number ascending
+
+Read STATE.md fresh:
+
+```bash
+cat .planning/STATE.md
+```
+
+Check for blockers in the Blockers/Concerns section. If blockers are found, go to handle_blocker with the blocker description.
+
+If incomplete phases remain: proceed to next phase, loop back to execute_phase.
+
+**Interactive mode overlap:** When `INTERACTIVE` is set, the iterate step enables pipeline parallelism:
+1. After discuss completes for Phase N, dispatch plan+execute as background agents
+2. Immediately start discuss for Phase N+1 (the next incomplete phase) while Phase N builds
+3. Before starting plan for Phase N+1, wait for Phase N's execute agent to complete and handle its post-execution routing (verification, gap closure, etc.)
+
+This means the user is always answering discuss questions (lightweight, interactive) while the heavy work (planning, code generation) runs in the background. The main context only accumulates discuss conversations — plan and execute contexts are isolated in their agents.
+
+If all phases complete, proceed to lifecycle step.
+
+</step>
+
+<step name="lifecycle">
+
+## 5. Lifecycle
+
+**If `ONLY_PHASE` is set:** Skip lifecycle. A single phase does not trigger audit/complete/cleanup. Display:
+
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GTD ► AUTONOMOUS ▸ PHASE ${ONLY_PHASE} COMPLETE ✓
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+ Phase ${ONLY_PHASE}: ${PHASE_NAME} — Done
+ Mode: Single phase (--only)
+
+ Lifecycle skipped — run /gtd:autonomous without --only
+ after all phases complete to trigger audit/complete/cleanup.
+```
+
+Exit cleanly.
+
+**Otherwise:** After all phases complete, run the milestone lifecycle sequence: audit → complete → cleanup.
+
+Display lifecycle transition banner:
+
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GTD ► AUTONOMOUS ▸ LIFECYCLE
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+ All phases complete → Starting lifecycle: audit → complete → cleanup
+ Milestone: {milestone_version} — {milestone_name}
+```
+
+**5a. Audit**
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gtd-audit-milestone")
+```
+
+After audit completes, detect the result:
+
+```bash
+AUDIT_FILE=".planning/v${milestone_version}-MILESTONE-AUDIT.md"
+AUDIT_STATUS=$(grep "^status:" "${AUDIT_FILE}" 2>/dev/null | head -1 | cut -d: -f2 | tr -d ' ')
+```
+
+**If AUDIT_STATUS is empty** (no audit file or no status field):
+
+Go to handle_blocker: "Audit did not produce results — audit file missing or malformed."
+
+**If `passed`:**
+
+Display:
+```
+Audit ✅ passed — proceeding to complete milestone
+```
+
+Proceed to 5b (no user pause — per CTRL-01).
+
+**If `gaps_found`:**
+
+Read the gaps summary from the audit file. Display:
+```
+⚠ Audit: Gaps Found
+```
+
+Ask user via AskUserQuestion:
+- **question:** "Milestone audit found gaps. How to proceed?"
+- **options:** "Continue anyway — accept gaps" / "Stop — fix gaps manually"
+
+On **"Continue anyway"**: Display `Audit ⏭ Gaps accepted — proceeding to complete milestone` and proceed to 5b.
+
+On **"Stop"**: Go to handle_blocker with "User stopped — audit gaps remain. Run /gtd:audit-milestone to review, then /gtd:complete-milestone when ready."
+
+**If `tech_debt`:**
+
+Read the tech debt summary from the audit file. Display:
+```
+⚠ Audit: Tech Debt Identified
+```
+
+Show the summary, then ask user via AskUserQuestion:
+- **question:** "Milestone audit found tech debt. How to proceed?"
+- **options:** "Continue with tech debt" / "Stop — address debt first"
+
+On **"Continue with tech debt"**: Display `Audit ⏭ Tech debt acknowledged — proceeding to complete milestone` and proceed to 5b.
+
+On **"Stop"**: Go to handle_blocker with "User stopped — tech debt to address. Run /gtd:audit-milestone to review details."
+
+**5b. Complete Milestone**
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gtd-complete-milestone", args="${milestone_version}")
+```
+
+After complete-milestone returns, verify it produced output:
+
+```bash
+ls .planning/milestones/v${milestone_version}-ROADMAP.md 2>/dev/null || true
+```
+
+If the archive file does not exist, go to handle_blocker: "Complete milestone did not produce expected archive files."
+
+**5c. Cleanup**
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gtd-cleanup")
+```
+
+Cleanup shows its own dry-run and asks user for approval internally — this is an acceptable pause per CTRL-01 since it's an explicit decision about file deletion.
+
+**5d. Final Completion**
+
+Display final completion banner:
+
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GTD ► AUTONOMOUS ▸ COMPLETE 🎉
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+ Milestone: {milestone_version} — {milestone_name}
+ Status: Complete ✅
+ Lifecycle: audit ✅ → complete ✅ → cleanup ✅
+
+ Complete it.
+```
+
+</step>
+
+<step name="handle_blocker">
+
+## 6. Handle Blocker
+
+When any phase operation fails or a blocker is detected, present 3 options via AskUserQuestion:
+
+**Prompt:** "Phase {N} ({Name}) encountered an issue: {description}"
+
+**Options:**
+1. **"Fix and retry"** — Re-run the failed step (discuss, plan, or execute) for this phase
+2. **"Skip this phase"** — Mark phase as skipped, continue to the next incomplete phase
+3. **"Stop autonomous mode"** — Display summary of progress so far and exit cleanly
+
+**On "Fix and retry":** Loop back to the failed step within execute_phase. If the same step fails again after retry, re-present these options.
+
+**On "Skip this phase":** Log `Phase {N} ⏭ {Name} — Skipped by user` and proceed to iterate.
+
+**On "Stop autonomous mode":** Display progress summary:
+
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GTD ► AUTONOMOUS ▸ STOPPED
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+ Completed: {list of completed phases}
+ Skipped: {list of skipped phases}
+ Remaining: {list of remaining phases}
+
+ Resume with: /gtd:autonomous ${ONLY_PHASE ? "--only " + ONLY_PHASE : "--from " + next_phase}${TO_PHASE ? " --to " + TO_PHASE : ""}
+```
+
+</step>
+
+</process>
+
+<success_criteria>
+- [ ] All incomplete phases completed in order (smart discuss → ui-phase → plan → task issue work → ui-review each)
+- [ ] Smart discuss proposes grey area answers in tables, user accepts or overrides per area
+- [ ] Progress banners displayed between phases
+- [ ] Task issue work invoked through export-phase-issues and work-task-issue
+- [ ] Post-execution verification reads VERIFICATION.md and routes on status
+- [ ] Passed verification → automatic continue to next phase
+- [ ] Human-needed verification → user prompted to validate or skip
+- [ ] Gaps-found → user offered gap closure, continue, or stop
+- [ ] Gap closure limited to 1 retry (prevents infinite loops)
+- [ ] Plan-phase and task issue work failures route to handle_blocker
+- [ ] ROADMAP.md re-read after each phase (catches inserted phases)
+- [ ] STATE.md checked for blockers before each phase
+- [ ] Blockers handled via user choice (retry / skip / stop)
+- [ ] Final completion or stop summary displayed
+- [ ] After all phases complete, lifecycle step is invoked (not manual suggestion)
+- [ ] Lifecycle transition banner displayed before audit
+- [ ] Audit invoked via Skill(skill="gtd-audit-milestone")
+- [ ] Audit result routing: passed → auto-continue, gaps_found → user decides, tech_debt → user decides
+- [ ] Audit technical failure (no file/no status) routes to handle_blocker
+- [ ] Complete-milestone invoked via Skill() with ${milestone_version} arg
+- [ ] Cleanup invoked via Skill() — internal confirmation is acceptable (CTRL-01)
+- [ ] Final completion banner displayed after lifecycle
+- [ ] Progress bar uses phase number / total milestone phases (not position among incomplete), with fallback display when phase numbers exceed total
+- [ ] Smart discuss documents relationship to discuss-phase with CTRL-03 note
+- [ ] Frontend phases get UI-SPEC generated before planning (step 3a.5) if not already present
+- [ ] Frontend phases get UI review audit after successful execution (step 3d.5) if UI-SPEC exists
+- [ ] UI phase and UI review respect workflow.ui_phase and workflow.ui_review config toggles
+- [ ] UI review is advisory (non-blocking) — phase proceeds to iterate regardless of score
+- [ ] `--only N` restricts execution to exactly one phase
+- [ ] `--only N` skips lifecycle step (audit/complete/cleanup)
+- [ ] `--only N` exits cleanly after single phase completes
+- [ ] `--only N` on already-complete phase exits with message
+- [ ] `--only N` handle_blocker resume message uses --only flag
+- [ ] `--to N` stops execution after phase N completes (halts at iterate step)
+- [ ] `--to N` filters out phases with number > N during discovery
+- [ ] `--to N` displays "Stopping after phase N" in startup banner
+- [ ] `--to N` on already completed target exits with "already completed" message
+- [ ] `--to N` compatible with `--from N` (run phases from M to N)
+- [ ] `--to N` handle_blocker resume message preserves --to flag
+- [ ] `--to N` skips lifecycle when not all milestone phases complete
+- [ ] `--interactive` runs discuss inline via gtd-discuss-phase (asks questions, waits for user)
+- [ ] `--interactive` dispatches plan and execute as background agents (context isolation)
+- [ ] `--interactive` enables pipeline parallelism: discuss Phase N+1 while Phase N builds
+- [ ] `--interactive` main context only accumulates discuss conversations (lean)
+- [ ] `--interactive` waits for background agents before post-execution routing
+- [ ] `--interactive` compatible with `--only`, `--from`, and `--to` flags
+</success_criteria>