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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 gsd-phase-researcher, gsd-planner, and gsd-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.
+</required_reading>
+
+<available_agent_types>
+Valid GSD subagent types (use exact names — do not fall back to 'general-purpose'):
+- gsd-phase-researcher — Researches technical approaches for a phase
+- gsd-planner — Creates detailed plans from phase scope
+- gsd-plan-checker — Reviews plan quality before execution
+</available_agent_types>
+
+<process>
+
+## 1. Initialize
+
+Load all context in one call (paths only to minimize orchestrator context):
+
+```bash
+INIT=$(node "$HOME/.claude/cap/bin/cap-tools.cjs" init plan-phase "$PHASE")
+if [[ "$INIT" == @file:* ]]; then INIT=$(cat "${INIT#@file:}"); fi
+AGENT_SKILLS_RESEARCHER=$(node "$HOME/.claude/cap/bin/cap-tools.cjs" agent-skills gsd-researcher 2>/dev/null)
+AGENT_SKILLS_PLANNER=$(node "$HOME/.claude/cap/bin/cap-tools.cjs" agent-skills gsd-planner 2>/dev/null)
+AGENT_SKILLS_CHECKER=$(node "$HOME/.claude/cap/bin/cap-tools.cjs" agent-skills gsd-checker 2>/dev/null)
+```
+
+Parse JSON for: `researcher_model`, `planner_model`, `checker_model`, `research_enabled`, `plan_checker_enabled`, `nyquist_validation_enabled`, `commit_docs`, `text_mode`, `phase_found`, `phase_dir`, `phase_number`, `phase_name`, `phase_slug`, `padded_phase`, `has_research`, `has_context`, `has_reviews`, `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`, `reviews_path`. These are null if files don't exist.
+
+**If `planning_exists` is false:** Error — run `/gsd: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>`, `--reviews`, `--text`).
+
+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 Claude Code remote sessions (`/rc` mode) where TUI menus don't work through the Claude App.
+
+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}-${phase_slug}"
+```
+
+**Existing artifacts from init:** `has_research`, `has_plans`, `plan_count`.
+
+## 2.5. Validate `--reviews` Prerequisite
+
+**Skip if:** No `--reviews` flag.
+
+**If `--reviews` AND `--gaps`:** Error — cannot combine `--reviews` with `--gaps`. These are conflicting modes.
+
+**If `--reviews` AND `has_reviews` is false (no REVIEWS.md in phase dir):**
+
+Error:
+```
+No REVIEWS.md found for Phase {N}. Run reviews first:
+
+/gsd:review --phase {N}
+
+Then re-run /gsd:plan-phase {N} --reviews
+```
+Exit workflow.
+
+## 3. Validate Phase
+
+```bash
+PHASE_INFO=$(node "$HOME/.claude/cap/bin/cap-tools.cjs" roadmap get-phase "${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:
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GSD ► 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/cap/bin/cap-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: ${context_path}`
+
+**If `context_path` is null (no CONTEXT.md exists):**
+
+Read discuss mode for context gate label:
+```bash
+DISCUSS_MODE=$(node "$HOME/.claude/cap/bin/cap-tools.cjs" config-get workflow.discuss_mode 2>/dev/null || echo "discuss")
+```
+
+If `TEXT_MODE` is true, present as a plain-text numbered list:
+```
+No CONTEXT.md found for Phase {X}. Plans will use research and requirements only — your design preferences won't be included.
+
+1. Continue without context — Plan using research + requirements only
+[If DISCUSS_MODE is "assumptions":]
+2. Gather context (assumptions mode) — Analyze codebase and surface assumptions before planning
+[If DISCUSS_MODE is "discuss" or unset:]
+2. Run discuss-phase first — Capture design decisions before planning
+
+Enter number:
+```
+
+Otherwise 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
+  If `DISCUSS_MODE` is `"assumptions"`:
+  - "Gather context (assumptions mode)" — Analyze codebase and surface assumptions before planning
+  If `DISCUSS_MODE` is `"discuss"` (or unset):
+  - "Run discuss-phase first" — Capture design decisions before planning
+
+If "Continue without context": Proceed to step 5.
+If "Run discuss-phase first":
+  **IMPORTANT:** Do NOT invoke discuss-phase as a nested Skill/Task call — AskUserQuestion
+  does not work correctly in nested subcontexts (#1009). Instead, display the command
+  and exit so the user runs it as a top-level command:
+  ```
+  Run this command first, then re-run /gsd:plan-phase {X} ${GSD_WS}:
+
+  /gsd:discuss-phase {X} ${GSD_WS}
+  ```
+  **Exit the plan-phase workflow. Do not continue.**
+
+## 5. Handle Research
+
+**Skip if:** `--gaps` flag or `--skip-research` flag or `--reviews` flag.
+
+**If `has_research` is true (from init) AND no `--research` flag:** Use existing, skip to step 6.
+
+**If RESEARCH.md missing OR `--research` flag:**
+
+**If no explicit flag (`--research` or `--skip-research`) and not `--auto`:**
+Ask the user whether to research, with a contextual recommendation based on the phase:
+
+If `TEXT_MODE` is true, present as a plain-text numbered list:
+```
+Research before planning Phase {X}: {phase_name}?
+
+1. Research first (Recommended) — Investigate domain, patterns, and dependencies before planning. Best for new features, unfamiliar integrations, or architectural changes.
+2. Skip research — Plan directly from context and requirements. Best for bug fixes, simple refactors, or well-understood tasks.
+
+Enter number:
+```
+
+Otherwise use AskUserQuestion:
+```
+AskUserQuestion([
+  {
+    question: "Research before planning Phase {X}: {phase_name}?",
+    header: "Research",
+    multiSelect: false,
+    options: [
+      { label: "Research first (Recommended)", description: "Investigate domain, patterns, and dependencies before planning. Best for new features, unfamiliar integrations, or architectural changes." },
+      { label: "Skip research", description: "Plan directly from context and requirements. Best for bug fixes, simple refactors, or well-understood tasks." }
+    ]
+  }
+])
+```
+
+If user selects "Skip research": skip to step 6.
+
+**If `--auto` and `research_enabled` is false:** Skip research silently (preserves automated behavior).
+
+Display banner:
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GSD ► RESEARCHING PHASE {X}
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+◆ Spawning researcher...
+```
+
+### Spawn gsd-phase-researcher
+
+```bash
+PHASE_DESC=$(node "$HOME/.claude/cap/bin/cap-tools.cjs" roadmap get-phase "${PHASE}" --pick 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 /gsd:discuss-phase)
+- {requirements_path} (Project requirements)
+- {state_path} (Project decisions and history)
+</files_to_read>
+
+${AGENT_SKILLS_RESEARCHER}
+
+<additional_context>
+**Phase description:** {phase_description}
+**Phase requirement IDs (MUST address):** {phase_req_ids}
+
+**Project instructions:** Read ./CLAUDE.md if exists — follow project-specific guidelines
+**Project skills:** Check .claude/skills/ or .agents/skills/ directory (if either exists) — read SKILL.md files, research should account for project skill patterns
+</additional_context>
+
+<output>
+Write to: {phase_dir}/{phase_num}-RESEARCH.md
+</output>
+```
+
+```
+Task(
+  prompt=research_prompt,
+  subagent_type="gsd-phase-researcher",
+  model="{researcher_model}",
+  description="Research Phase {phase}"
+)
+```
+
+### Handle Researcher Return
+
+- **`## RESEARCH COMPLETE`:** Display confirmation, continue to step 6
+- **`## RESEARCH BLOCKED`:** Display blocker, offer: 1) Provide context, 2) Skip research, 3) Abort
+
+## 5.5. Create Validation Strategy
+
+Skip if `nyquist_validation_enabled` is false OR `research_enabled` is false.
+
+If `research_enabled` is false and `nyquist_validation_enabled` is true: warn "Nyquist validation enabled but research disabled — VALIDATION.md cannot be created without RESEARCH.md. Plans will lack validation requirements (Dimension 8)." Continue to step 6.
+
+**But Nyquist is not applicable for this run** when all of the following are true:
+- `research_enabled` is false
+- `has_research` is false
+- no `--research` flag was provided
+
+In that case: **skip validation-strategy creation entirely**. Do **not** expect `RESEARCH.md` or `VALIDATION.md` for this run, and continue to Step 6.
+
+```bash
+grep -l "## Validation Architecture" "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-RESEARCH.md 2>/dev/null || true
+```
+
+**If found:**
+1. Read template: `~/.claude/cap/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 "$HOME/.claude/cap/bin/cap-tools.cjs" config-get workflow.ui_phase 2>/dev/null || echo "true")
+UI_GATE_CFG=$(node "$HOME/.claude/cap/bin/cap-tools.cjs" config-get workflow.ui_safety_gate 2>/dev/null || echo "true")
+```
+
+**If both are `false`:** Skip to step 6.
+
+Check if phase has frontend indicators:
+
+```bash
+PHASE_SECTION=$(node "$HOME/.claude/cap/bin/cap-tools.cjs" roadmap get-phase "${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`:**
+
+If `TEXT_MODE` is true, present as a plain-text numbered list:
+```
+Phase {N} has frontend indicators but no UI-SPEC.md. Generate a design contract before planning?
+
+1. Generate UI-SPEC first — Run /gsd:ui-phase {N} then re-run /gsd:plan-phase {N}
+2. Continue without UI-SPEC
+3. Not a frontend phase
+
+Enter number:
+```
+
+Otherwise 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 `/gsd:ui-phase {N} ${GSD_WS}` then re-run `/gsd:plan-phase {N} ${GSD_WS}`". Exit workflow.
+  - "Continue without UI-SPEC" → Continue to step 6.
+  - "Not a frontend phase" → Continue to step 6.
+
+**If `HAS_UI` is 1 (no frontend indicators):** Skip silently to step 6.
+
+## 6. Check Existing Plans
+
+```bash
+ls "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-PLAN.md 2>/dev/null || true
+```
+
+**If exists AND `--reviews` flag:** Skip prompt — go straight to replanning (the purpose of `--reviews` is to replan with review feedback).
+
+**If exists AND no `--reviews` flag:** Offer: 1) Add more plans, 2) View existing, 3) Replan from scratch.
+
+## 7. Use Context Paths from INIT
+
+Extract from INIT JSON:
+
+```bash
+_gsd_field() { node -e "const o=JSON.parse(process.argv[1]); const v=o[process.argv[2]]; process.stdout.write(v==null?'':String(v))" "$1" "$2"; }
+STATE_PATH=$(_gsd_field "$INIT" state_path)
+ROADMAP_PATH=$(_gsd_field "$INIT" roadmap_path)
+REQUIREMENTS_PATH=$(_gsd_field "$INIT" requirements_path)
+RESEARCH_PATH=$(_gsd_field "$INIT" research_path)
+VERIFICATION_PATH=$(_gsd_field "$INIT" verification_path)
+UAT_PATH=$(_gsd_field "$INIT" uat_path)
+CONTEXT_PATH=$(_gsd_field "$INIT" context_path)
+REVIEWS_PATH=$(_gsd_field "$INIT" reviews_path)
+```
+
+## 7.5. Verify Nyquist Artifacts
+
+Skip if `nyquist_validation_enabled` is false OR `research_enabled` is false.
+
+Also skip if all of the following are true:
+- `research_enabled` is false
+- `has_research` is false
+- no `--research` flag was provided
+
+In that no-research path, Nyquist artifacts are **not required** for this run.
+
+```bash
+VALIDATION_EXISTS=$(ls "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-VALIDATION.md 2>/dev/null | head -1)
+```
+
+If missing and Nyquist is still enabled/applicable — ask user:
+1. Re-run: `/gsd:plan-phase {PHASE} --research ${GSD_WS}`
+2. Disable Nyquist with the exact command:
+   `node "$HOME/.claude/cap/bin/cap-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 gsd-planner Agent
+
+Display banner:
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GSD ► PLANNING PHASE {X}
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+◆ Spawning planner...
+```
+
+Planner prompt:
+
+```markdown
+<planning_context>
+**Phase:** {phase_number}
+**Mode:** {standard | gap_closure | reviews}
+
+<files_to_read>
+- {state_path} (Project State)
+- {roadmap_path} (Roadmap)
+- {requirements_path} (Requirements)
+- {context_path} (USER DECISIONS from /gsd:discuss-phase)
+- {research_path} (Technical Research)
+- {verification_path} (Verification Gaps - if --gaps)
+- {uat_path} (UAT Gaps - if --gaps)
+- {reviews_path} (Cross-AI Review Feedback - if --reviews)
+- {UI_SPEC_PATH} (UI Design Contract — visual/interaction specs, if exists)
+</files_to_read>
+
+${AGENT_SKILLS_PLANNER}
+
+**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 /gsd: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 env vars: CACHE_TTL=300, LOG_LEVEL=debug, FEATURE_FLAG_X=true" or "modify config.json: set servers.db.pool_size=20, servers.cache.enabled=true" 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="gsd-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 gsd-plan-checker Agent
+
+Display banner:
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GSD ► 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 /gsd:discuss-phase)
+- {research_path} (Technical Research — includes Validation Architecture)
+</files_to_read>
+
+${AGENT_SKILLS_CHECKER}
+
+**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="gsd-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 /gsd:discuss-phase)
+</files_to_read>
+
+${AGENT_SKILLS_PLANNER}
+
+**Checker issues:** {structured_issues_from_checker}
+</revision_context>
+
+<instructions>
+Make targeted updates to address checker issues.
+Do NOT replan from scratch unless issues are fundamental.
+Return what changed.
+</instructions>
+```
+
+```
+Task(
+  prompt=revision_prompt,
+  subagent_type="gsd-planner",
+  model="{planner_model}",
+  description="Revise Phase {phase} plans"
+)
+```
+
+After planner returns -> spawn checker again (step 10), increment iteration_count.
+
+**If iteration_count >= 3:**
+
+Display: `Max iterations reached. {N} issues remain:` + issue list
+
+Offer: 1) Force proceed, 2) Provide guidance and retry, 3) Abandon
+
+## 13. Requirements Coverage Gate
+
+After plans pass the checker (or checker is skipped), verify that all phase requirements are covered by at least one plan.
+
+**Skip if:** `phase_req_ids` is null or TBD (no requirements mapped to this phase).
+
+**Step 1: Extract requirement IDs claimed by plans**
+```bash
+# Collect all requirement IDs from plan frontmatter
+PLAN_REQS=$(grep -h "requirements_addressed\|requirements:" ${PHASE_DIR}/*-PLAN.md 2>/dev/null | tr -d '[]' | tr ',' '\n' | sed 's/^[[:space:]]*//' | sort -u)
+```
+
+**Step 2: Compare against phase requirements from ROADMAP**
+
+For each REQ-ID in `phase_req_ids`:
+- If REQ-ID appears in `PLAN_REQS` → covered ✓
+- If REQ-ID does NOT appear in any plan → uncovered ✗
+
+**Step 3: Check CONTEXT.md features against plan objectives**
+
+Read CONTEXT.md `<decisions>` section. Extract feature/capability names. Check each against plan `<objective>` blocks. Features not mentioned in any plan objective → potentially dropped.
+
+**Step 4: Report**
+
+If all requirements covered and no dropped features:
+```
+✓ Requirements coverage: {N}/{N} REQ-IDs covered by plans
+```
+→ Proceed to step 14.
+
+If gaps found:
+```
+## ⚠ Requirements Coverage Gap
+
+{M} of {N} phase requirements are not assigned to any plan:
+
+| REQ-ID | Description | Plans |
+|--------|-------------|-------|
+| {id} | {from REQUIREMENTS.md} | None |
+
+{K} CONTEXT.md features not found in plan objectives:
+- {feature_name} — described in CONTEXT.md but no plan covers it
+
+Options:
+1. Re-plan to include missing requirements (recommended)
+2. Move uncovered requirements to next phase
+3. Proceed anyway — accept coverage gaps
+```
+
+If `TEXT_MODE` is true, present as a plain-text numbered list (options already shown in the block above). Otherwise use AskUserQuestion to present the options.
+
+## 14. Present Final Status
+
+Route to `<offer_next>` OR `auto_advance` depending on flags/config.
+
+## 15. 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 "$HOME/.claude/cap/bin/cap-tools.cjs" config-set workflow._auto_chain_active false 2>/dev/null
+   fi
+   ```
+3. Read both the chain flag and user preference:
+   ```bash
+   AUTO_CHAIN=$(node "$HOME/.claude/cap/bin/cap-tools.cjs" config-get workflow._auto_chain_active 2>/dev/null || echo "false")
+   AUTO_CFG=$(node "$HOME/.claude/cap/bin/cap-tools.cjs" config-get workflow.auto_advance 2>/dev/null || echo "false")
+   ```
+
+**If `--auto` flag present OR `AUTO_CHAIN` is true OR `AUTO_CFG` is true:**
+
+Display banner:
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GSD ► AUTO-ADVANCING TO EXECUTE
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+Plans ready. Launching execute-phase...
+```
+
+Launch execute-phase using the Skill tool to avoid nested Task sessions (which cause runtime freezes due to deep agent nesting):
+```
+Skill(skill="gsd:execute-phase", args="${PHASE} --auto --no-transition ${GSD_WS}")
+```
+
+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:
+  ```
+  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+   GSD ► PHASE ${PHASE} COMPLETE ✓
+  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+  Auto-advance pipeline finished.
+
+  Next: /gsd:discuss-phase ${NEXT_PHASE} --auto ${GSD_WS}
+  ```
+- **GAPS FOUND / VERIFICATION FAILED** → Display result, stop chain:
+  ```
+  Auto-advance stopped: Execution needs review.
+
+  Review the output above and continue manually:
+  /gsd:execute-phase ${PHASE} ${GSD_WS}
+  ```
+
+**If neither `--auto` nor config enabled:**
+Route to `<offer_next>` (existing behavior).
+
+</process>
+
+<offer_next>
+Output this markdown directly (not as a code block):
+
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GSD ► 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
+
+/gsd:execute-phase {X} ${GSD_WS}
+
+<sub>/clear first → fresh context window</sub>
+
+───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+**Also available:**
+- cat .planning/phases/{phase-dir}/*-PLAN.md — review plans
+- /gsd:plan-phase {X} --research — re-research first
+- /gsd:review --phase {X} --all — peer review plans with external AIs
+- /gsd:plan-phase {X} --reviews — replan incorporating review feedback
+
+───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+</offer_next>
+
+<windows_troubleshooting>
+**Windows users:** If plan-phase freezes during agent spawning (common on Windows due to
+stdio deadlocks with MCP servers — see Claude Code issue anthropics/claude-code#28126):
+
+1. **Force-kill:** Close the terminal (Ctrl+C may not work)
+2. **Clean up orphaned processes:**
+   ```powershell
+   # Kill orphaned node processes from stale MCP servers
+   Get-Process node -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Where-Object {$_.StartTime -lt (Get-Date).AddHours(-1)} | Stop-Process -Force
+   ```
+3. **Clean up stale task directories:**
+   ```powershell
+   # Remove stale subagent task dirs (Claude Code never cleans these on crash)
+   Remove-Item -Recurse -Force "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\tasks\*" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
+   ```
+4. **Reduce MCP server count:** Temporarily disable non-essential MCP servers in settings.json
+5. **Retry:** Restart Claude Code and run `/gsd:plan-phase` again
+
+If freezes persist, try `--skip-research` to reduce the agent chain from 3 to 2 agents:
+```
+/gsd:plan-phase N --skip-research
+```
+</windows_troubleshooting>
+
+<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)
+- [ ] gsd-phase-researcher spawned with CONTEXT.md
+- [ ] Existing plans checked
+- [ ] gsd-planner spawned with CONTEXT.md + RESEARCH.md
+- [ ] Plans created (PLANNING COMPLETE or CHECKPOINT handled)
+- [ ] gsd-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>