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  1. package/agents/planning-phase-designer.md +88 -0
  2. package/agents/planning-task-author.md +67 -0
  3. package/agents/planning-task-designer.md +75 -0
  4. package/package.json +1 -1
  5. package/skills/technical-planning/SKILL.md +97 -32
  6. package/skills/technical-planning/references/dependencies.md +3 -3
  7. package/skills/technical-planning/references/output-formats/output-backlog-md.md +71 -11
  8. package/skills/technical-planning/references/output-formats/output-beads.md +63 -11
  9. package/skills/technical-planning/references/output-formats/output-linear.md +59 -6
  10. package/skills/technical-planning/references/output-formats/output-local-markdown.md +138 -96
  11. package/skills/technical-planning/references/output-formats.md +21 -5
  12. package/skills/technical-planning/references/planning-principles.md +35 -3
  13. package/skills/technical-planning/references/read-specification.md +47 -0
  14. package/skills/technical-planning/references/spec-change-detection.md +35 -0
  15. package/skills/technical-planning/references/steps/author-tasks.md +34 -31
  16. package/skills/technical-planning/references/steps/define-phases.md +61 -19
  17. package/skills/technical-planning/references/steps/define-tasks.md +43 -19
  18. package/skills/technical-planning/references/steps/plan-construction.md +131 -0
  19. package/skills/technical-planning/references/steps/plan-review.md +2 -4
  20. package/skills/technical-planning/references/steps/resolve-dependencies.md +5 -7
  21. package/skills/technical-planning/references/steps/review-integrity.md +5 -5
  22. package/skills/technical-planning/references/steps/review-traceability.md +5 -5
  23. package/skills/technical-planning/references/steps/verify-source-material.md +20 -0
  24. package/skills/technical-specification/SKILL.md +3 -3
  25. package/skills/technical-specification/references/specification-guide.md +15 -15
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- This reference defines the principles, rules, and quality standards for creating implementation plans. It is loaded at the start of the planning process and stays in context throughout.
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+ These are the principles, rules, and quality standards that govern the planning process.
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+ ## Your Role
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+ You are the **planner** — you coordinate the planning process and control a set of agents that do the analytical work alongside you. You invoke agents (for phase design, task design, and task authoring), present their output to the user, handle approval gates, and manage the Plan Index File.
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+ Analysis principles (`phase-design.md`, `task-design.md`) are loaded by the agents, not by you. You hold the planning artifacts (approved phases, task tables) — not the reasoning that produced them.
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  ## Planning is a Gated Process
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- **This is a step-by-step process with mandatory stop points.** You must work through each step sequentially. Steps end with **STOP** — you must present your work, wait for explicit user confirmation, and only then proceed to the next step.
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+ **This is a step-by-step process with mandatory stop points.** You must work through each step sequentially. Steps end with **STOP** — you must present your work, wait for explicit user approval, and only then proceed to the next step.
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+ **Never one-shot the plan.** Do not write the entire Plan Index File in a single operation. The plan is built incrementally — one phase at a time, with the user confirming the structure at each stage. A one-shot plan that misses requirements, hallucinates content, or structures tasks poorly wastes more time than a careful, step-by-step process. Go slow to go fast.
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+ ### Explicit Approval Required
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+ At every stop point — phases, task lists, individual tasks, dependencies — the user must explicitly approve before you proceed or log content.
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+ **What counts as approval:** `y`/`yes` or equivalent explicit confirmation: "Approved", "That's good", "Looks right".
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+ **What does NOT count as approval:**
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+ - Silence
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+ - You presenting choices (that's you asking, not them approving)
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+ - The user asking a follow-up question
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+ - The user saying "What's next?" or "Continue"
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+ - The user making a comment or observation without explicit approval
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+ - ANY response that isn't explicit confirmation
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+ **If you are uncertain whether the user approved, ASK:** "Ready to proceed, or do you want to change something?"
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+ #### Self-Check Before Logging
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+ Before logging any task to the plan, ask yourself:
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+ 1. **Did I present this specific content to the user?** If no → STOP. Present it first.
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+ 2. **Did the user explicitly approve it?** If no → STOP. Wait for approval.
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+ 3. **Am I writing exactly what was approved?** If adding or changing anything → STOP. Present the changes first.
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- **Never one-shot the plan.** Do not write the entire plan document in a single operation. The plan is built incrementally — one phase at a time, with the user confirming the structure at each stage. A one-shot plan that misses requirements, hallucinates content, or structures tasks poorly wastes more time than a careful, step-by-step process. Go slow to go fast.
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+ ### Collaboration and Judgment
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  **Stop and ask when judgment is needed.** Planning is collaborative — not in the sense that every line needs approval, but in the sense that the user guides structural decisions and resolves ambiguity. You must stop and ask when:
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+ # Read Specification
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+ *Reference for **[technical-planning](../SKILL.md)***
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+ This reference defines how planning agents must read the specification. It is passed to every agent alongside the specification path.
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+ **This is a full-ingestion protocol, not a summarisation guide.**
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+ ## Read the Entire Specification
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+ Read the specification file from top to bottom. Every section, every decision, every edge case, every constraint. If the file is large, read it in sequential chunks until you have consumed the entire document. Do not stop early. Do not skim.
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+ The specification is a verbatim, user-approved artifact. Every detail was explicitly agreed — treat nothing as filler or boilerplate.
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+ ## What to Absorb
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+ As you read, internalise:
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+ - **Decisions and rationale** — what was decided and why
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+ - **Architectural choices** — patterns, technologies, structures chosen
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+ - **Edge cases** — boundary conditions, unusual inputs, failure modes
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+ - **Acceptance boundaries** — what constitutes "done" for each requirement
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+ - **Constraints** — performance, compatibility, regulatory, or scope limits
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+ - **Dependencies** — what this feature needs from other systems or topics
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+ ## Cross-Cutting Specifications
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+ If cross-cutting specification paths are provided, read each one in full using the same protocol. Cross-cutting specs contain architectural decisions (caching, rate limiting, error handling) that influence how features are built — they inform implementation approach without adding scope.
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+ Note where cross-cutting decisions apply to the work you are designing.
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+ ## What NOT to Do
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+ - **Do not summarise** — your job is to use the spec directly, not to create a derivative
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+ - **Do not skip sections** — even sections that seem irrelevant may contain constraints or edge cases that affect your work
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+ - **Do not reinterpret decisions** — the spec contains validated decisions; translate them into plan structure, don't second-guess them
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+ - **Do not reference other source material** — the specification is the sole input; it already incorporates prior research and discussion
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+ # Spec Change Detection
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+ *Reference for **[technical-planning](../SKILL.md)***
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+ When resuming planning, check whether the specification or cross-cutting specifications have changed since planning started.
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+ The Plan Index File stores `spec_commit` — the git commit hash captured when planning began. This allows diffing any input file against that point in time.
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+ ## Detection
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+ Run a git diff against the stored commit for all input files:
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+ ## Reporting
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+ > "Specification unchanged since planning started."
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+ Summarise the extent of changes:
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+ - **Nature of changes** — formatting/cosmetic, minor additions/removals, or substantial restructuring
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- Load **[task-design.md](../task-design.md)** the task design principles, template structure, and quality standards for writing task detail.
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+ This step uses the `planning-task-author` agent (`.claude/agents/planning-task-author.md`) to write full detail for a single task. You invoke the agent, present its output, and handle the approval gate.
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+ ## Author the Task
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+ 1. **read-specification.md**: `.claude/skills/technical-planning/references/read-specification.md`
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+ 2. **Specification**: path from the Plan Index File's `specification:` field
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+ 3. **Cross-cutting specs**: paths from the Plan Index File's `cross_cutting_specs:` field (if any)
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+ 4. **task-design.md**: `.claude/skills/technical-planning/references/task-design.md`
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+ 5. **All approved phases**: the complete phase structure from the Plan Index File body
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