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+<purpose>
+Create executable phase prompts (PLAN.md files) for a roadmap phase with integrated research and verification. Default flow: Research (if needed) -> Plan -> Verify -> Done. Orchestrates vector-phase-researcher, vector-planner, and vector-plan-checker agents with a revision loop (max 3 iterations).
+</purpose>
+
+<required_reading>
+Read all files referenced by the invoking prompt's execution_context before starting.
+
+@~/.claude/core/references/ui-brand.md
+</required_reading>
+
+<process>
+
+## 1. Initialize
+
+Load all context in one call (paths only to minimize orchestrator context):
+
+```bash
+INIT=$(node "$HOME/.claude/core/bin/vector-tools.cjs" init plan-phase "$PHASE")
+if [[ "$INIT" == @file:* ]]; then INIT=$(cat "${INIT#@file:}"); fi
+```
+
+Parse JSON for: `researcher_model`, `planner_model`, `checker_model`, `research_enabled`, `plan_checker_enabled`, `nyquist_validation_enabled`, `commit_docs`, `phase_found`, `phase_dir`, `phase_number`, `phase_name`, `phase_slug`, `padded_phase`, `has_research`, `has_context`, `has_plans`, `plan_count`, `planning_exists`, `roadmap_exists`, `phase_req_ids`.
+
+**File paths (for <files_to_read> blocks):** `state_path`, `roadmap_path`, `requirements_path`, `context_path`, `research_path`, `verification_path`, `uat_path`. These are null if files don't exist.
+
+**If `planning_exists` is false:** Error — run `/vector:new-project` first.
+
+## 2. Parse and Normalize Arguments
+
+Extract from $ARGUMENTS: phase number (integer or decimal like `2.1`), flags (`--research`, `--skip-research`, `--gaps`, `--skip-verify`, `--prd <filepath>`).
+
+Extract `--prd <filepath>` from $ARGUMENTS. If present, set PRD_FILE to the filepath.
+
+**If no phase number:** Detect next unplanned phase from roadmap.
+
+**If `phase_found` is false:** Validate phase exists in ROADMAP.md. If valid, create the directory using `phase_slug` and `padded_phase` from init:
+```bash
+mkdir -p ".planning/phases/${padded_phase}-${phase_slug}"
+```
+
+**Existing artifacts from init:** `has_research`, `has_plans`, `plan_count`.
+
+## 3. Validate Phase
+
+```bash
+PHASE_INFO=$(node "$HOME/.claude/core/bin/vector-tools.cjs" roadmap get-phase "${PHASE}")
+```
+
+**If `found` is false:** Error with available phases. **If `found` is true:** Extract `phase_number`, `phase_name`, `goal` from JSON.
+
+## 3.5. Handle PRD Express Path
+
+**Skip if:** No `--prd` flag in arguments.
+
+**If `--prd <filepath>` provided:**
+
+1. Read the PRD file:
+```bash
+PRD_CONTENT=$(cat "$PRD_FILE" 2>/dev/null)
+if [ -z "$PRD_CONTENT" ]; then
+  echo "Error: PRD file not found: $PRD_FILE"
+  exit 1
+fi
+```
+
+2. Display banner:
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ Vector ► PRD EXPRESS PATH
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+Using PRD: {PRD_FILE}
+Generating CONTEXT.md from requirements...
+```
+
+3. Parse the PRD content and generate CONTEXT.md. The orchestrator should:
+   - Extract all requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and constraints from the PRD
+   - Map each to a locked decision (everything in the PRD is treated as a locked decision)
+   - Identify any areas the PRD doesn't cover and mark as "Claude's Discretion"
+   - **Extract canonical refs** from ROADMAP.md for this phase, plus any specs/ADRs referenced in the PRD — expand to full file paths (MANDATORY)
+   - Create CONTEXT.md in the phase directory
+
+4. Write CONTEXT.md:
+```markdown
+# Phase [X]: [Name] - Context
+
+**Gathered:** [date]
+**Status:** Ready for planning
+**Source:** PRD Express Path ({PRD_FILE})
+
+<domain>
+## Phase Boundary
+
+[Extracted from PRD — what this phase delivers]
+
+</domain>
+
+<decisions>
+## Implementation Decisions
+
+{For each requirement/story/criterion in the PRD:}
+### [Category derived from content]
+- [Requirement as locked decision]
+
+### Claude's Discretion
+[Areas not covered by PRD — implementation details, technical choices]
+
+</decisions>
+
+<canonical_refs>
+## Canonical References
+
+**Downstream agents MUST read these before planning or implementing.**
+
+[MANDATORY. Extract from ROADMAP.md and any docs referenced in the PRD.
+Use full relative paths. Group by topic area.]
+
+### [Topic area]
+- `path/to/spec-or-adr.md` — [What it decides/defines]
+
+[If no external specs: "No external specs — requirements fully captured in decisions above"]
+
+</canonical_refs>
+
+<specifics>
+## Specific Ideas
+
+[Any specific references, examples, or concrete requirements from PRD]
+
+</specifics>
+
+<deferred>
+## Deferred Ideas
+
+[Items in PRD explicitly marked as future/v2/out-of-scope]
+[If none: "None — PRD covers phase scope"]
+
+</deferred>
+
+---
+
+*Phase: XX-name*
+*Context gathered: [date] via PRD Express Path*
+```
+
+5. Commit:
+```bash
+node "$HOME/.claude/core/bin/vector-tools.cjs" commit "docs(${padded_phase}): generate context from PRD" --files "${phase_dir}/${padded_phase}-CONTEXT.md"
+```
+
+6. Set `context_content` to the generated CONTEXT.md content and continue to step 5 (Handle Research).
+
+**Effect:** This completely bypasses step 4 (Load CONTEXT.md) since we just created it. The rest of the workflow (research, planning, verification) proceeds normally with the PRD-derived context.
+
+## 4. Load CONTEXT.md
+
+**Skip if:** PRD express path was used (CONTEXT.md already created in step 3.5).
+
+Check `context_path` from init JSON.
+
+If `context_path` is not null, display: `Using phase context from: ${context_path}`
+
+**If `context_path` is null (no CONTEXT.md exists):**
+
+Use AskUserQuestion:
+- header: "No context"
+- question: "No CONTEXT.md found for Phase {X}. Plans will use research and requirements only — your design preferences won't be included. Continue or capture context first?"
+- options:
+  - "Continue without context" — Plan using research + requirements only
+  - "Run discuss-phase first" — Capture design decisions before planning
+
+If "Continue without context": Proceed to step 5.
+If "Run discuss-phase first": Display `/vector:discuss-phase {X}` and exit workflow.
+
+## 5. Handle Research
+
+**Skip if:** `--gaps` flag, `--skip-research` flag, or `research_enabled` is false (from init) without `--research` override.
+
+**If `has_research` is true (from init) AND no `--research` flag:** Use existing, skip to step 6.
+
+**If RESEARCH.md missing OR `--research` flag:**
+
+Display banner:
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ Vector ► RESEARCHING PHASE {X}
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+◆ Spawning researcher...
+```
+
+### Spawn vector-phase-researcher
+
+```bash
+PHASE_DESC=$(node "$HOME/.claude/core/bin/vector-tools.cjs" roadmap get-phase "${PHASE}" | jq -r '.section')
+```
+
+Research prompt:
+
+```markdown
+<objective>
+Research how to implement Phase {phase_number}: {phase_name}
+Answer: "What do I need to know to PLAN this phase well?"
+</objective>
+
+<files_to_read>
+- {context_path} (USER DECISIONS from /vector:discuss-phase)
+- {requirements_path} (Project requirements)
+- {state_path} (Project decisions and history)
+</files_to_read>
+
+<additional_context>
+**Phase description:** {phase_description}
+**Phase requirement IDs (MUST address):** {phase_req_ids}
+
+**Project instructions:** Read ./CLAUDE.md if exists — follow project-specific guidelines
+**Project skills:** Check .claude/skills/ or .agents/skills/ directory (if either exists) — read SKILL.md files, research should account for project skill patterns
+</additional_context>
+
+<output>
+Write to: {phase_dir}/{phase_num}-RESEARCH.md
+</output>
+```
+
+```
+Task(
+  prompt=research_prompt,
+  subagent_type="vector-phase-researcher",
+  model="{researcher_model}",
+  description="Research Phase {phase}"
+)
+```
+
+### Handle Researcher Return
+
+- **`## RESEARCH COMPLETE`:** Display confirmation, continue to step 6
+- **`## RESEARCH BLOCKED`:** Display blocker, offer: 1) Provide context, 2) Skip research, 3) Abort
+
+## 5.5. Create Validation Strategy
+
+Skip if `nyquist_validation_enabled` is false OR `research_enabled` is false.
+
+If `research_enabled` is false and `nyquist_validation_enabled` is true: warn "Nyquist validation enabled but research disabled — VALIDATION.md cannot be created without RESEARCH.md. Plans will lack validation requirements (Dimension 8)." Continue to step 6.
+
+**But Nyquist is not applicable for this run** when all of the following are true:
+- `research_enabled` is false
+- `has_research` is false
+- no `--research` flag was provided
+
+In that case: **skip validation-strategy creation entirely**. Do **not** expect `RESEARCH.md` or `VALIDATION.md` for this run, and continue to Step 6.
+
+```bash
+grep -l "## Validation Architecture" "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-RESEARCH.md 2>/dev/null
+```
+
+**If found:**
+1. Read template: `~/.claude/core/templates/VALIDATION.md`
+2. Write to `${PHASE_DIR}/${PADDED_PHASE}-VALIDATION.md` (use Write tool)
+3. Fill frontmatter: `{N}` → phase number, `{phase-slug}` → slug, `{date}` → current date
+4. Verify:
+```bash
+test -f "${PHASE_DIR}/${PADDED_PHASE}-VALIDATION.md" && echo "VALIDATION_CREATED=true" || echo "VALIDATION_CREATED=false"
+```
+5. If `VALIDATION_CREATED=false`: STOP — do not proceed to Step 6
+6. If `commit_docs`: `commit "docs(phase-${PHASE}): add validation strategy"`
+
+**If not found:** Warn and continue — plans may fail Dimension 8.
+
+## 5.6. UI Design Contract Gate
+
+> Skip if `workflow.ui_phase` is explicitly `false` AND `workflow.ui_safety_gate` is explicitly `false` in `.planning/config.json`. If keys are absent, treat as enabled.
+
+```bash
+UI_PHASE_CFG=$(node "$HOME/.claude/core/bin/vector-tools.cjs" config-get workflow.ui_phase 2>/dev/null || echo "true")
+UI_GATE_CFG=$(node "$HOME/.claude/core/bin/vector-tools.cjs" config-get workflow.ui_safety_gate 2>/dev/null || echo "true")
+```
+
+**If both are `false`:** Skip to step 6.
+
+Check if phase has frontend indicators:
+
+```bash
+PHASE_SECTION=$(node "$HOME/.claude/core/bin/vector-tools.cjs" roadmap get-phase "${PHASE}" 2>/dev/null)
+echo "$PHASE_SECTION" | grep -iE "UI|interface|frontend|component|layout|page|screen|view|form|dashboard|widget" > /dev/null 2>&1
+HAS_UI=$?
+```
+
+**If `HAS_UI` is 0 (frontend indicators found):**
+
+Check for existing UI-SPEC:
+```bash
+UI_SPEC_FILE=$(ls "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-UI-SPEC.md 2>/dev/null | head -1)
+```
+
+**If UI-SPEC.md found:** Set `UI_SPEC_PATH=$UI_SPEC_FILE`. Display: `Using UI design contract: ${UI_SPEC_PATH}`
+
+**If UI-SPEC.md missing AND `UI_GATE_CFG` is `true`:**
+
+Use AskUserQuestion:
+- header: "UI Design Contract"
+- question: "Phase {N} has frontend indicators but no UI-SPEC.md. Generate a design contract before planning?"
+- options:
+  - "Generate UI-SPEC first" → Display: "Run `/vector:ui-phase {N}` then re-run `/vector:plan-phase {N}`". Exit workflow.
+  - "Continue without UI-SPEC" → Continue to step 6.
+  - "Not a frontend phase" → Continue to step 6.
+
+**If `HAS_UI` is 1 (no frontend indicators):** Skip silently to step 6.
+
+## 6. Check Existing Plans
+
+```bash
+ls "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-PLAN.md 2>/dev/null
+```
+
+**If exists:** Offer: 1) Add more plans, 2) View existing, 3) Replan from scratch.
+
+## 7. Use Context Paths from INIT
+
+Extract from INIT JSON:
+
+```bash
+STATE_PATH=$(printf '%s\n' "$INIT" | jq -r '.state_path // empty')
+ROADMAP_PATH=$(printf '%s\n' "$INIT" | jq -r '.roadmap_path // empty')
+REQUIREMENTS_PATH=$(printf '%s\n' "$INIT" | jq -r '.requirements_path // empty')
+RESEARCH_PATH=$(printf '%s\n' "$INIT" | jq -r '.research_path // empty')
+VERIFICATION_PATH=$(printf '%s\n' "$INIT" | jq -r '.verification_path // empty')
+UAT_PATH=$(printf '%s\n' "$INIT" | jq -r '.uat_path // empty')
+CONTEXT_PATH=$(printf '%s\n' "$INIT" | jq -r '.context_path // empty')
+```
+
+## 7.5. Verify Nyquist Artifacts
+
+Skip if `nyquist_validation_enabled` is false OR `research_enabled` is false.
+
+Also skip if all of the following are true:
+- `research_enabled` is false
+- `has_research` is false
+- no `--research` flag was provided
+
+In that no-research path, Nyquist artifacts are **not required** for this run.
+
+```bash
+VALIDATION_EXISTS=$(ls "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-VALIDATION.md 2>/dev/null | head -1)
+```
+
+If missing and Nyquist is still enabled/applicable — ask user:
+1. Re-run: `/vector:plan-phase {PHASE} --research`
+2. Disable Nyquist with the exact command:
+   `node "$HOME/.claude/core/bin/vector-tools.cjs" config-set workflow.nyquist_validation false`
+3. Continue anyway (plans fail Dimension 8)
+
+Proceed to Step 8 only if user selects 2 or 3.
+
+## 8. Spawn vector-planner Agent
+
+Display banner:
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ Vector ► PLANNING PHASE {X}
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+◆ Spawning planner...
+```
+
+Planner prompt:
+
+```markdown
+<planning_context>
+**Phase:** {phase_number}
+**Mode:** {standard | gap_closure}
+
+<files_to_read>
+- {state_path} (Project State)
+- {roadmap_path} (Roadmap)
+- {requirements_path} (Requirements)
+- {context_path} (USER DECISIONS from /vector:discuss-phase)
+- {research_path} (Technical Research)
+- {verification_path} (Verification Gaps - if --gaps)
+- {uat_path} (UAT Gaps - if --gaps)
+- {UI_SPEC_PATH} (UI Design Contract — visual/interaction specs, if exists)
+</files_to_read>
+
+**Phase requirement IDs (every ID MUST appear in a plan's `requirements` field):** {phase_req_ids}
+
+**Project instructions:** Read ./CLAUDE.md if exists — follow project-specific guidelines
+**Project skills:** Check .claude/skills/ or .agents/skills/ directory (if either exists) — read SKILL.md files, plans should account for project skill rules
+</planning_context>
+
+<downstream_consumer>
+Output consumed by /vector:execute-phase. Plans need:
+- Frontmatter (wave, depends_on, files_modified, autonomous)
+- Tasks in XML format with read_first and acceptance_criteria fields (MANDATORY on every task)
+- Verification criteria
+- must_haves for goal-backward verification
+</downstream_consumer>
+
+<deep_work_rules>
+## Anti-Shallow Execution Rules (MANDATORY)
+
+Every task MUST include these fields — they are NOT optional:
+
+1. **`<read_first>`** — Files the executor MUST read before touching anything. Always include:
+   - The file being modified (so executor sees current state, not assumptions)
+   - Any "source of truth" file referenced in CONTEXT.md (reference implementations, existing patterns, config files, schemas)
+   - Any file whose patterns, signatures, types, or conventions must be replicated or respected
+
+2. **`<acceptance_criteria>`** — Verifiable conditions that prove the task was done correctly. Rules:
+   - Every criterion must be checkable with grep, file read, test command, or CLI output
+   - NEVER use subjective language ("looks correct", "properly configured", "consistent with")
+   - ALWAYS include exact strings, patterns, values, or command outputs that must be present
+   - Examples:
+     - Code: `auth.py contains def verify_token(` / `test_auth.py exits 0`
+     - Config: `.env.example contains DATABASE_URL=` / `Dockerfile contains HEALTHCHECK`
+     - Docs: `README.md contains '## Installation'` / `API.md lists all endpoints`
+     - Infra: `deploy.yml has rollback step` / `docker-compose.yml has healthcheck for db`
+
+3. **`<action>`** — Must include CONCRETE values, not references. Rules:
+   - NEVER say "align X with Y", "match X to Y", "update to be consistent" without specifying the exact target state
+   - ALWAYS include the actual values: config keys, function signatures, SQL statements, class names, import paths, env vars, etc.
+   - If CONTEXT.md has a comparison table or expected values, copy them into the action verbatim
+   - The executor should be able to complete the task from the action text alone, without needing to read CONTEXT.md or reference files (read_first is for verification, not discovery)
+
+**Why this matters:** Executor agents work from the plan text. Vague instructions like "update the config to match production" produce shallow one-line changes. Concrete instructions like "add DATABASE_URL=postgresql://... , set POOL_SIZE=20, add REDIS_URL=redis://..." produce complete work. The cost of verbose plans is far less than the cost of re-doing shallow execution.
+</deep_work_rules>
+
+<quality_gate>
+- [ ] PLAN.md files created in phase directory
+- [ ] Each plan has valid frontmatter
+- [ ] Tasks are specific and actionable
+- [ ] Every task has `<read_first>` with at least the file being modified
+- [ ] Every task has `<acceptance_criteria>` with grep-verifiable conditions
+- [ ] Every `<action>` contains concrete values (no "align X with Y" without specifying what)
+- [ ] Dependencies correctly identified
+- [ ] Waves assigned for parallel execution
+- [ ] must_haves derived from phase goal
+</quality_gate>
+```
+
+```
+Task(
+  prompt=filled_prompt,
+  subagent_type="vector-planner",
+  model="{planner_model}",
+  description="Plan Phase {phase}"
+)
+```
+
+## 9. Handle Planner Return
+
+- **`## PLANNING COMPLETE`:** Display plan count. If `--skip-verify` or `plan_checker_enabled` is false (from init): skip to step 13. Otherwise: step 10.
+- **`## CHECKPOINT REACHED`:** Present to user, get response, spawn continuation (step 12)
+- **`## PLANNING INCONCLUSIVE`:** Show attempts, offer: Add context / Retry / Manual
+
+## 10. Spawn vector-plan-checker Agent
+
+Display banner:
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ Vector ► VERIFYING PLANS
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+◆ Spawning plan checker...
+```
+
+Checker prompt:
+
+```markdown
+<verification_context>
+**Phase:** {phase_number}
+**Phase Goal:** {goal from ROADMAP}
+
+<files_to_read>
+- {PHASE_DIR}/*-PLAN.md (Plans to verify)
+- {roadmap_path} (Roadmap)
+- {requirements_path} (Requirements)
+- {context_path} (USER DECISIONS from /vector:discuss-phase)
+- {research_path} (Technical Research — includes Validation Architecture)
+</files_to_read>
+
+**Phase requirement IDs (MUST ALL be covered):** {phase_req_ids}
+
+**Project instructions:** Read ./CLAUDE.md if exists — verify plans honor project guidelines
+**Project skills:** Check .claude/skills/ or .agents/skills/ directory (if either exists) — verify plans account for project skill rules
+</verification_context>
+
+<expected_output>
+- ## VERIFICATION PASSED — all checks pass
+- ## ISSUES FOUND — structured issue list
+</expected_output>
+```
+
+```
+Task(
+  prompt=checker_prompt,
+  subagent_type="vector-plan-checker",
+  model="{checker_model}",
+  description="Verify Phase {phase} plans"
+)
+```
+
+## 11. Handle Checker Return
+
+- **`## VERIFICATION PASSED`:** Display confirmation, proceed to step 13.
+- **`## ISSUES FOUND`:** Display issues, check iteration count, proceed to step 12.
+
+## 12. Revision Loop (Max 3 Iterations)
+
+Track `iteration_count` (starts at 1 after initial plan + check).
+
+**If iteration_count < 3:**
+
+Display: `Sending back to planner for revision... (iteration {N}/3)`
+
+Revision prompt:
+
+```markdown
+<revision_context>
+**Phase:** {phase_number}
+**Mode:** revision
+
+<files_to_read>
+- {PHASE_DIR}/*-PLAN.md (Existing plans)
+- {context_path} (USER DECISIONS from /vector:discuss-phase)
+</files_to_read>
+
+**Checker issues:** {structured_issues_from_checker}
+</revision_context>
+
+<instructions>
+Make targeted updates to address checker issues.
+Do NOT replan from scratch unless issues are fundamental.
+Return what changed.
+</instructions>
+```
+
+```
+Task(
+  prompt=revision_prompt,
+  subagent_type="vector-planner",
+  model="{planner_model}",
+  description="Revise Phase {phase} plans"
+)
+```
+
+After planner returns -> spawn checker again (step 10), increment iteration_count.
+
+**If iteration_count >= 3:**
+
+Display: `Max iterations reached. {N} issues remain:` + issue list
+
+Offer: 1) Force proceed, 2) Provide guidance and retry, 3) Abandon
+
+## 13. Present Final Status
+
+Route to `<offer_next>` OR `auto_advance` depending on flags/config.
+
+## 14. Auto-Advance Check
+
+Check for auto-advance trigger:
+
+1. Parse `--auto` flag from $ARGUMENTS
+2. **Sync chain flag with intent** — if user invoked manually (no `--auto`), clear the ephemeral chain flag from any previous interrupted `--auto` chain. This does NOT touch `workflow.auto_advance` (the user's persistent settings preference):
+   ```bash
+   if [[ ! "$ARGUMENTS" =~ --auto ]]; then
+     node "$HOME/.claude/core/bin/vector-tools.cjs" config-set workflow._auto_chain_active false 2>/dev/null
+   fi
+   ```
+3. Read both the chain flag and user preference:
+   ```bash
+   AUTO_CHAIN=$(node "$HOME/.claude/core/bin/vector-tools.cjs" config-get workflow._auto_chain_active 2>/dev/null || echo "false")
+   AUTO_CFG=$(node "$HOME/.claude/core/bin/vector-tools.cjs" config-get workflow.auto_advance 2>/dev/null || echo "false")
+   ```
+
+**If `--auto` flag present OR `AUTO_CHAIN` is true OR `AUTO_CFG` is true:**
+
+Display banner:
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ Vector ► AUTO-ADVANCING TO EXECUTE
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+Plans ready. Launching execute-phase...
+```
+
+Launch execute-phase using the Skill tool to avoid nested Task sessions (which cause runtime freezes due to deep agent nesting):
+```
+Skill(skill="vector:execute-phase", args="${PHASE} --auto --no-transition")
+```
+
+The `--no-transition` flag tells execute-phase to return status after verification instead of chaining further. This keeps the auto-advance chain flat — each phase runs at the same nesting level rather than spawning deeper Task agents.
+
+**Handle execute-phase return:**
+- **PHASE COMPLETE** → Display final summary:
+  ```
+  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+   Vector ► PHASE ${PHASE} COMPLETE ✓
+  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+  Auto-advance pipeline finished.
+
+  Next: /vector:discuss-phase ${NEXT_PHASE} --auto
+  ```
+- **GAPS FOUND / VERIFICATION FAILED** → Display result, stop chain:
+  ```
+  Auto-advance stopped: Execution needs review.
+
+  Review the output above and continue manually:
+  /vector:execute-phase ${PHASE}
+  ```
+
+**If neither `--auto` nor config enabled:**
+Route to `<offer_next>` (existing behavior).
+
+</process>
+
+<offer_next>
+Output this markdown directly (not as a code block):
+
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ Vector ► PHASE {X} PLANNED ✓
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+**Phase {X}: {Name}** — {N} plan(s) in {M} wave(s)
+
+| Wave | Plans | What it builds |
+|------|-------|----------------|
+| 1    | 01, 02 | [objectives] |
+| 2    | 03     | [objective]  |
+
+Research: {Completed | Used existing | Skipped}
+Verification: {Passed | Passed with override | Skipped}
+
+───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+## ▶ Next Up
+
+**Execute Phase {X}** — run all {N} plans
+
+/vector:execute-phase {X}
+
+<sub>/clear first → fresh context window</sub>
+
+───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+**Also available:**
+- cat .planning/phases/{phase-dir}/*-PLAN.md — review plans
+- /vector:plan-phase {X} --research — re-research first
+
+───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+</offer_next>
+
+<success_criteria>
+- [ ] .planning/ directory validated
+- [ ] Phase validated against roadmap
+- [ ] Phase directory created if needed
+- [ ] CONTEXT.md loaded early (step 4) and passed to ALL agents
+- [ ] Research completed (unless --skip-research or --gaps or exists)
+- [ ] vector-phase-researcher spawned with CONTEXT.md
+- [ ] Existing plans checked
+- [ ] vector-planner spawned with CONTEXT.md + RESEARCH.md
+- [ ] Plans created (PLANNING COMPLETE or CHECKPOINT handled)
+- [ ] vector-plan-checker spawned with CONTEXT.md
+- [ ] Verification passed OR user override OR max iterations with user decision
+- [ ] User sees status between agent spawns
+- [ ] User knows next steps
+</success_criteria>