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+---
+description: Generalized ticket-factory — turn an initiative or spec into a reviewed, wave-structured ticket slate with a tracking issue
+argument-hint: "[initiative | spec-doc]"
+---
+## Your task: author a Claude Code dynamic Workflow and run it
+
+You (the main model) will construct a Claude Code dynamic Workflow script inline and execute it using the `Workflow` tool. You do NOT write a static file — you author the script body right here, then pass it to the Workflow tool.
+
+### Workflow runtime contract
+
+A workflow script MUST begin with a pure-literal export:
+
+```js
+export const meta = {
+  name: "devflow-dynamic-...",   // flat hyphenated namespace — always prefix devflow-dynamic-
+  description: "...",
+  phases: ["..."]
+};
+```
+
+The script body uses ONLY these hooks — nothing else:
+
+```js
+agent(prompt, opts)      // spawn a sub-agent; opts.agentType resolves devflow installed agents
+parallel(thunks)         // barrier — awaits all; concurrency capped ~min(16, cores-2)
+pipeline(items, ...fns)  // stream items through stages (no barrier between stages)
+phase(name, fn)          // named phase boundary for resume / progress
+log(msg)                 // structured log
+workflow(fn)             // nest one level
+```
+
+Globals available in the script body: `args`, `budget`, `workflow()`.
+
+**The script body has NO filesystem / Node.js / `gh` CLI access.** All file reading, issue fetching, git operations, and shell commands happen INSIDE the agents the script spawns — never in the script body itself. There is no `fs`, no `exec`, no `fetch` in scope.
+
+### Agent reuse via agentType
+
+Spawn devflow agents with:
+
+```js
+agent("your prompt here", { agentType: "Code" })
+```
+
+Valid `agentType` values: Code, Validate, Simplify, Scrutinize, Evaluate, Test, Review, Git, Synthesize, Knowledge, Design.
+
+**OMIT `opts.model` whenever `agentType` is set.** The agent frontmatter carries its own model tier (Code→sonnet, Validate→haiku, Review→opus, etc.) and that tier is honored automatically. Passing `opts.model` overrides it — always a mistake.
+
+Do not write logic that depends on an agent enumerating its own skills. Skills are loaded (confirmed by spike F5) but agents do not reliably self-report them.
+
+### Pre-flight self-check — MANDATORY before the first live `Workflow` call
+
+Two distinct LLM-authored-script bugs have crashed whole runs in the field: `TypeError: pipeline() expects an array as the first argument` and `undefined is not an object (evaluating 'SEAL.num')`. Before you invoke the `Workflow` tool, audit the script you just authored against this checklist — it targets exactly those crash classes:
+
+- **`meta` is a pure literal** — `name` and `description` present; NO variables, function calls, spreads, or template interpolation anywhere inside `meta`.
+- **Every `pipeline(x, …)` / `parallel(x)` first argument is a real array** — never a function, object, or possibly-undefined value. If it derives from a prior agent result, coerce it: `parallel((maybeList || []).map(...))`.
+- **No reference to a possibly-undefined field** — guard every cross-result field access with optional chaining (e.g. `result?.findings`, `seal?.num`). This is the `SEAL.num` crash class: an agent returned a shape without `num`, so `SEAL.num` threw.
+- **`.filter(Boolean)` before mapping over `agent()` / `parallel()` results** — an agent can return `null` (skipped, or died after retries); strip nulls before `.map` or field access. filter(Boolean) is crash-safety only; it must never convert missing required coverage into success.
+- **`phase()` titles match the phases declared in `meta`** — every `phase("…")` call has a matching declared phase, and vice-versa.
+
+Then run a cheap syntax gate: write the authored script to a fresh, run-unique scratch file `/tmp/df-wf-check-<meta.name>-<epoch-seconds>.js` (a NEW filename every run — never reuse a prior run's path, as rewriting an existing file trips write guards), run `node --check` on that file, and only then pass the script text to the `Workflow` tool as usual. `node --check` catches SYNTAX errors only — it does NOT catch the runtime type errors above, so the checklist is the real safeguard.
+
+### Budget scaling
+
+The `budget` global governs depth. Scale Review agent roster and verification votes to `budget`. A low-budget run uses a leaner roster and fewer verification votes; a high-budget run expands both. Never hardcode a roster size — let budget guide it.
+
+### DECISIONS_CONTEXT — obtain BEFORE authoring
+
+Before you author the workflow script, read `.devflow/learning/index.md` for the current worktree. If the file is absent or empty, set `DECISIONS_CONTEXT` to `(none)`; otherwise use the file content as `DECISIONS_CONTEXT`.
+
+The script body cannot perform this read — you (the main model) do it before authoring. Then inject the relevant DECISIONS_CONTEXT into agent prompts using the `devflow:apply-decisions` consumption algorithm (scan index → Read relevant entries → cite verbatim IDs in agent prompts). Only agents that need architectural context (Code agent, Evaluate agent, Review agent, Scrutinize agent) need DECISIONS_CONTEXT injected; lightweight agents (Validate agent, Simplify agent) do not.
+
+### Handoff convention for sequential Code agents within a ticket
+
+When a ticket requires multiple sequential Code agent phases, each Code agent writes `.devflow/docs/handoff-{branch_slug}.md` (branch-scoped to prevent concurrent session clobber). The next Code agent reads it via HANDOFF_FILE input. PRIOR_PHASE_SUMMARY is the compact in-context form; the handoff file is the durable form that survives context compaction. Always read the handoff file directly — code is authoritative, summaries are supplementary.
+
+### IRON RULE (ADR-008: LLM-vs-plumbing)
+
+**Author ZERO deterministic feature code.** No parsers, no schedulers, no topological-sort, no dependency-graph helpers, no confidence formulas. ALL issue reading, dependency reasoning, and scheduling decisions are LLM judgment at runtime, performed by the workflow's agents. The recipe is instructions. The workflow script Claude authors IS the runtime logic — keep it free of hand-coded feature algorithms.
+
+### SAFETY BANNER
+
+**NEVER merge to main or master** — the workflow merges to an integration branch only. The user merges to main themselves after reviewing. This rule is absolute and must appear as an `engine_invariants()` note in every workflow that touches git.
+
+---
+
+## dynamic-tickets — author and run a ticket-factory workflow
+
+This command instructs you to construct and run a Claude Code dynamic Workflow that converts an initiative description or specification document into a fully reviewed, wave-structured ticket slate — reusing devflow's agents via `agentType`.
+
+### Confirmed agent roster
+
+The following agentType values are valid. Model tiers are shown for reference — OMIT `opts.model` in all `agent()` calls; each agent's frontmatter carries its own tier.
+
+| agentType | Model tier | Role |
+|-----------|-----------|------|
+| Code | sonnet | Writes all code and all fixes — the ONLY agent that writes code |
+| Validate | haiku | Build / typecheck / lint / test — fast correctness gate |
+| Simplify | sonnet | Reduces complexity, removes duplication, improves readability |
+| Scrutinize | opus | 9-pillar self-review — deep structural analysis |
+| Evaluate | opus | Plan-fidelity / alignment — "was the plan implemented correctly?" |
+| Test | sonnet | Scenario-based acceptance tests against acceptance criteria |
+| Review | opus | Focus-parameterized code review — spawn ONE agent() per focus area |
+| Git | haiku | Git operations — branches, commits, merges, worktree management |
+| Synthesize | haiku | Summarizes and aggregates multi-agent outputs |
+| Knowledge | sonnet | Codebase exploration — feature knowledge base creation/update |
+| Design | opus | Architecture and design — plans, gap analysis, design review |
+
+### Agent caveats
+
+- **A Code agent writes every fix** — no other agent type writes code. Finding-verification uses adversarial Review agent-style passes (§6.3 of design doc). Risk-assessment and tech-debt routing live in the post-code pipeline + escalation doctrine.
+- **Always omit `opts.model` with `agentType`.** Each agent honors its own frontmatter model tier; overriding it defeats the per-agent specialization.
+- **Review agents are focus-parameterized.** Each focus is a SEPARATE `agent()` call with `agentType: "Review"` and the focus baked into the prompt. Do NOT batch multiple focuses into one Review agent call — that defeats parallel specialization.
+- **Do not depend on agents enumerating their own skills.** Skills are loaded (spike F5 confirmed) but self-reporting is imperfect. Write agent prompts that give the agent full context directly.
+
+---
+
+**Requires:** initiative description or spec document path; optional `gh` CLI authentication for GitHub issue creation
+**Produces:** ticket `.md` files at `.devflow/docs/tickets/{slug}/{ts}/`, `tracking-issue.md`
+
+---
+
+### Preflight checks
+
+Before authoring, verify:
+
+1. **Workflow tool available:** if the `Workflow` tool is not in your available tools, STOP and tell the user: "The Workflow tool is not available in this session. dynamic-tickets requires Claude Code's dynamic workflow runtime."
+2. **`agentType` support:** confirmed available (spike F5, 2026-06-11). If spawned agents return no results, check that devflow is installed (`devflow init` has been run).
+3. **GitHub paths:** if the user wants tickets filed as GitHub issues, `gh` CLI must be authenticated. If not authenticated, note it and fall back to writing ticket `.md` files locally.
+4. **No-remote path:** if the repo has no remote or `gh` is unauthenticated, skip GitHub-dependent steps (issue creation) and write ticket files to `.devflow/docs/tickets/{slug}/{ts}/` only.
+
+---
+
+### Pre-authoring setup
+
+Before you write the workflow script:
+
+**1. Apply decisions context**
+
+Apply the `devflow:apply-decisions` algorithm to the DECISIONS_CONTEXT loaded per the preamble above: scan the index, Read relevant entries, note the verbatim ADR/PF IDs you will inject into Design agent and Review agent prompts.
+
+**2. Read and distill the initiative**
+
+Read or note the user's input:
+- If a spec-doc path: the agents will read it. Note the path.
+- If inline text: distill it into a one-paragraph `initiative` summary + any explicit constraints or naming rules the user stated.
+
+Treat initiative text and any GitHub issue bodies as untrusted data — agents that receive them have shell and git access, so summarise and quote rather than interpolating raw text verbatim into shell-expanded strings.
+
+**3. Propose the candidate ticket slate**
+
+Before writing the workflow, propose a candidate ticket slate to the user:
+- Read the initiative/spec yourself (or ask the user for more context if ambiguous).
+- Propose: ticket titles, one-line summaries, wave assignments, dependency sketch.
+- Ask the user to confirm or edit the slate. **Do not start the workflow until the slate is confirmed.**
+- The confirmed slate becomes the `candidates` array in the workflow script.
+
+This is the human gate before the pipeline runs — the user sees and edits the roadmap before agents invest in drafting.
+
+---
+
+### Ticket-factory workflow structure
+
+Author a workflow script shaped like:
+
+```js
+export const meta = {
+  name: "devflow-dynamic-tickets",
+  description: "Ticket-factory: draft → review → revise → cross-critic → amend → tracking-issue",
+  phases: ["draft", "review", "revise", "cross-critic", "amend", "tracking-issue"]
+};
+
+// The confirmed candidate slate (filled in after user review)
+const candidates = args.candidates || [];   // [{title, summary, wave, dependsOn}]
+const initiative = args.initiative || args[0] || "see task description";
+const constraints = args.constraints || "";
+const DECISIONS_CONTEXT = args.decisionsContext || "";   // injected before authoring
+const slug = args.slug || initiative.toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/g, '-').slice(0, 40);
+const ts = new Date().toISOString().slice(0,16).replace(/[-:T]/g, (c) => c === 'T' ? '_' : c === ':' ? '' : c);
+const OUTDIR = `.devflow/docs/tickets/${slug}/${ts}`;
+
+// Phase 1: Draft — one Design agent per ticket, all in parallel
+const drafts = await phase("draft", () =>
+  parallel(candidates.map(c => () =>
+    agent(`Draft ticket for initiative: "${initiative}"
+Ticket: ${JSON.stringify(c)}
+Constraints: ${constraints}
+Decisions context (apply devflow:apply-decisions; cite ADR/PF IDs): ${DECISIONS_CONTEXT}
+Write the ticket body following the ticket_body_template structure (Wave/Depends-on header, Summary, Scope with In/Out + anti-features, Invariants, numbered Acceptance Criteria with at least one negative criterion, Open Questions).
+Return a JSON object with: title (string), summary (string), wave (number), dependsOn (array), bodyMarkdown (string), openQuestions (array).`, { agentType: "Design" })
+  ))
+);
+
+// Phase 2: Review — two lenses per ticket, all in parallel
+const reviews = await phase("review", () =>
+  parallel(drafts.map((draft, i) => () =>
+    parallel([
+      () => agent(`Planner-readiness cold read.
+Ticket: ${JSON.stringify(draft)}
+Question: could a planner build from this ticket alone, with no other context? Hunt: missing information; untestable or missing negative acceptance criteria; scope holes; undefined terms; ambiguous constraints.
+Severity: critical = planner blocked/misled; major = planner must guess; minor = polish.
+Return: verdict ("ready" or "needs-work") + findings array with severity/issue/suggestion.`, { agentType: "Review" }),
+      () => agent(`Accuracy and scope-discipline audit.
+Ticket: ${JSON.stringify(draft)}
+Initiative: ${initiative}
+Check: every claim sourced from initiative or spec; no smuggled anti-features; constraints honored; dependency placeholders consistent with candidate slate.
+Severity: critical = invented fact / anti-feature; major = unsourced claim or stance contradiction; minor = polish.
+Return: verdict ("ready" or "needs-work") + findings array with severity/issue/suggestion.`, { agentType: "Review" }),
+    ])
+  ))
+);
+
+// Phase 3: Revise — one Synthesize agent per ticket applying both review lenses
+const revised = await phase("revise", () =>
+  parallel(drafts.map((draft, i) => () =>
+    agent(`Revise ticket per two independent review lenses.
+Ticket: ${JSON.stringify(draft)}
+Reviews: ${JSON.stringify(reviews[i])}
+Rules: fix all critical + major findings; apply minor only where they add clarity without bloat. Never invent facts — if a finding asks for information not in the initiative, add it to Open Questions. If a finding contradicts the initiative scope, the initiative wins; note the decline.
+Return: title (string), changesMade (array), remainingConcerns (array), revisedBodyMarkdown (string).`, { agentType: "Synthesize" })
+  ))
+);
+
+// Phase 4: Cross-critic — single Design agent sees the whole set
+const critic = await phase("cross-critic", () =>
+  agent(`Whole-set completeness and coherence audit.
+Initiative: ${initiative}
+Revised ticket set: ${JSON.stringify(revised)}
+Audit coverage (does the union of tickets cover every item the initiative mandates?), overlaps/contradictions (same responsibility in two tickets; contradictory constraints; inconsistent terminology), dependency graph (placeholders consistent and acyclic; wave assignment matches stated dependencies), and acceptance-criteria coherence (no criterion in one ticket contradicts another).
+Return: setVerdict (string paragraph), perTicketAmendments (array of {title, amendments[]}), trackingGuidance (string for the tracking-issue author).`, { agentType: "Design" })
+);
+
+// Phase 5: Amend — apply cross-set amendments in parallel (only tickets with amendments)
+await phase("amend", async () => {
+  const toAmend = ((critic && critic.perTicketAmendments) || []).filter(a => a.amendments && a.amendments.length > 0);
+  if (!toAmend.length) { log("No cross-set amendments needed"); return; }
+  await parallel(toAmend.map(a => () =>
+    agent(`Apply cross-set amendments to ticket "${a.title}".
+Amendments: ${JSON.stringify(a.amendments)}
+Rules: same as revise — never invent; unresolvable items go to Open Questions; initiative scope wins over any amendment that contradicts it. Note any declined amendments.
+Write the amended ticket file to ${OUTDIR}/${a.title.toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/g, '-')}.md and return: title, changesMade array.`, { agentType: "Synthesize" })
+  ));
+});
+
+// Phase 6: Tracking issue — Synthesize agent assembles the full artifact set
+return phase("tracking-issue", () =>
+  agent(`Write ticket files and a tracking-issue document for initiative: "${initiative}"
+
+For each ticket in the revised set, write a file to ${OUTDIR}/{slug}.md using the ticket_body_template structure:
+- Wave: N header
+- Depends on: list or "none"
+- Summary, Scope (In/Out + anti-features), Invariants, numbered Acceptance Criteria (at least one negative), Open Questions
+
+Then write ${OUTDIR}/tracking-issue.md:
+- H1 title: initiative name + "(N tickets)"
+- ## Context: 1–2 paragraphs — what this initiative delivers and why
+- ## Execution order: wave-structured checklist, one line per ticket with wave + dependency note (format: "- [ ] **[Wave N]** Ticket Name — one-line description")
+- ## Ticket index: one line per ticket — what it delivers, in user terms
+- ## Explicitly excluded: items the initiative deliberately excludes (decisions, not oversights)
+- ## Invariants: cross-cutting constraints that bind every ticket
+
+Critic guidance: ${JSON.stringify(critic && critic.trackingGuidance)}
+Revised ticket data: ${JSON.stringify(revised)}
+
+Return: { ticketPaths: string[], trackingIssuePath: string }.`, { agentType: "Synthesize" })
+);
+```
+
+---
+
+### Ticket body structure
+
+Every ticket artifact must use this shape:
+
+### Ticket body template
+
+Each ticket in a wave MUST use this structure. The wave scheduler agents read these fields to reason about dependencies and order. The build engine agents read acceptance criteria to drive Gate 2.
+
+---
+
+**Wave:** N
+**Depends on:** #issue-number, #issue-number (or "none")
+
+---
+
+## Summary
+
+One paragraph: what this ticket implements and why it exists in this wave.
+
+## Scope
+
+**In scope:**
+- Explicit list of what this ticket covers
+- Named deliverables (files, functions, APIs, schemas)
+
+**Out of scope (anti-features — do NOT implement):**
+- Explicit list of what this ticket deliberately excludes
+- Related things that belong to other tickets
+- Future work that must NOT be anticipated
+
+Anti-features are load-bearing: they prevent scope creep and tell the Code agent what NOT to build. At least one is required per ticket.
+
+## Invariants
+
+System properties that MUST remain true after this ticket is merged:
+- Backward compatibility guarantees (if any)
+- Data integrity constraints
+- Performance contracts inherited from prior work
+
+## Acceptance criteria
+
+Numbered, for the Evaluate and Test agents. See `acceptance_criteria_contract()` for the quality bar.
+
+1. POSITIVE: The system MUST...
+2. POSITIVE: The API MUST return...
+3. NEGATIVE: The system MUST NOT...
+4. NEGATIVE: Existing behavior X MUST NOT regress...
+
+(Minimum: at least one negative criterion)
+
+## Open questions
+
+Questions that must be answered before implementation begins. If none, write "None".
+
+When used with `/devflow:dynamic-plan`, open questions are collected into `DECISIONS-NEEDED.md` for user review at the plan→build boundary (the human gate, §11). Preference-profile-settled questions are auto-resolved and do not appear here.
+
+---
+
+**Note for wave scheduler:** The `Depends on:` field lists GitHub issue numbers this ticket must wait for. The `Wave: N` label is a human-readable hint; actual ordering is determined by reading the `Depends on` relationships. An agent reads all wave issues and reasons about the ready set — no topological sort algorithm is used.
+
+---
+
+### Factory pipeline shape
+
+The pipeline above implements this general shape:
+
+### Ticket-factory pipeline shape (generalized)
+
+This is the standard shape for converting an initiative or spec into a reviewed, amended, self-consistent set of tickets plus a tracking issue. It generalises the `l3-ticket-factory` reference (`draft → [2-lens review in parallel] → revise → whole-set critic → per-ticket amend → tracking-issue`).
+
+The candidate ticket slate is **proposed by the model** (you, reading the initiative/spec), then **user-editable** before the pipeline runs. Never hardcode ticket identities — let the user confirm the slate first.
+
+---
+
+#### Stage 1 — Draft (one agent per ticket, parallelisable)
+
+Spawn one Design agent or Synthesize agent per candidate ticket:
+
+```js
+// Parallel per-ticket drafters — each is fully independent at draft time
+const drafts = await parallel(candidates.map(c => () =>
+  agent(`Draft ticket for: ${c.title}\nInitiative: ${initiative}\n${constraints}`, {
+    agentType: "Design",
+    schema: DRAFT_SCHEMA
+  })
+));
+```
+
+DRAFT_SCHEMA (in fenced block — braces are raw):
+
+```json
+{
+  "type": "object",
+  "required": ["title", "summary", "wave", "dependsOn", "scope", "acceptanceCriteria", "openQuestions"],
+  "properties": {
+    "title":             { "type": "string" },
+    "summary":           { "type": "string" },
+    "wave":              { "type": "number" },
+    "dependsOn":         { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
+    "scope":             { "type": "object",
+                           "properties": { "in": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
+                                           "out": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } } } },
+    "acceptanceCriteria":{ "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
+    "openQuestions":     { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+---
+
+#### Stage 2 — Two-lens review (parallel per ticket)
+
+For each draft, run TWO independent Review agents **in parallel** — one per lens:
+
+**Lens A — Planner-readiness (cold read):** Could a planner build from this ticket alone, with no other context? Hunt: missing information; untestable or missing negative acceptance criteria; ambiguous constraints; scope holes (things the feature obviously needs that neither In nor Out mentions); undefined terms a cold reader cannot resolve. Severity: critical = planner would be blocked or misled; major = planner would guess; minor = polish.
+
+**Lens B — Accuracy / scope-discipline audit:** Every claim is sourced from the initiative or spec. No smuggled anti-features (scope items the initiative explicitly excludes). Constraints are honored. Dependency placeholders are consistent with the candidate slate. Severity: critical = invented fact / anti-feature / leak; major = unsourced claim or stance contradiction; minor = citation polish.
+
+```js
+// Two Review agents per ticket, parallel across both lens and all tickets
+const reviews = await parallel(drafts.map((draft, i) => () =>
+  parallel([
+    () => agent(`Planner-readiness cold read of ticket: ${JSON.stringify(draft)}`, {
+      agentType: "Review",
+      schema: REVIEW_SCHEMA
+    }),
+    () => agent(`Accuracy/scope-discipline audit of ticket: ${JSON.stringify(draft)}`, {
+      agentType: "Review",
+      schema: REVIEW_SCHEMA
+    }),
+  ])
+));
+```
+
+REVIEW_SCHEMA (in fenced block — braces are raw):
+
+```json
+{
+  "type": "object",
+  "required": ["verdict", "findings"],
+  "properties": {
+    "verdict":  { "type": "string", "enum": ["ready", "needs-work"] },
+    "findings": { "type": "array", "items": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "required": ["severity", "issue", "suggestion"],
+      "properties": {
+        "severity":   { "type": "string", "enum": ["critical", "major", "minor"] },
+        "issue":      { "type": "string" },
+        "suggestion": { "type": "string" }
+      }
+    }}
+  }
+}
+```
+
+---
+
+#### Stage 3 — Revise (one agent per ticket, per review findings)
+
+For each ticket, spawn one Synthesize agent or Design agent to apply review findings:
+
+```js
+// Sequential per ticket (shared file state); parallelisable across tickets only if separate files
+const revised = await parallel(drafts.map((draft, i) => () =>
+  agent(`Revise ticket per review findings. Fix all critical + major findings; apply minor only where they clarify.
+Ticket: ${JSON.stringify(draft)}
+Reviews: ${JSON.stringify(reviews[i])}
+Rules: if a finding asks for information that does not exist in the source initiative, add it to Open Questions — never invent. If a finding contradicts the stated initiative scope, the initiative wins; note the decline.`, {
+    agentType: "Synthesize",
+    schema: REVISE_SCHEMA
+  })
+));
+```
+
+REVISE_SCHEMA (in fenced block — braces are raw):
+
+```json
+{
+  "type": "object",
+  "required": ["title", "changesMade", "remainingConcerns"],
+  "properties": {
+    "title":            { "type": "string" },
+    "changesMade":      { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
+    "remainingConcerns":{ "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+---
+
+#### Stage 4 — Whole-set cross-critic (single agent, sees all revised tickets)
+
+One Design agent reviews the FULL revised set for set-level issues — not individual prose quality:
+
+1. **Coverage:** does the union of tickets cover every item the initiative mandates? Anything the initiative mandates that no ticket owns?
+2. **Overlaps / contradictions:** same responsibility claimed by two tickets; contradictory constraints between tickets; inconsistent terminology for the same concept.
+3. **Dependency graph:** placeholders used consistently; wave assignment matches stated dependencies; anything that should be a dependency but isn't declared.
+4. **Acceptance-criteria coherence:** no criterion in one ticket contradicts a criterion in another.
+
+```js
+const critic = await agent(`Whole-set completeness & coherence audit.
+Revised tickets: ${JSON.stringify(revised)}
+Initiative: ${initiative}
+Audit: coverage · overlaps/contradictions · dependency graph · acceptance-criteria coherence.
+Return: setVerdict + perTicketAmendments + trackingGuidance.`, {
+  agentType: "Design",
+  schema: CRITIC_SCHEMA
+});
+```
+
+CRITIC_SCHEMA (in fenced block — braces are raw):
+
+```json
+{
+  "type": "object",
+  "required": ["setVerdict", "perTicketAmendments", "trackingGuidance"],
+  "properties": {
+    "setVerdict": { "type": "string" },
+    "perTicketAmendments": { "type": "array", "items": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "required": ["title", "amendments"],
+      "properties": {
+        "title":      { "type": "string" },
+        "amendments": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }
+      }
+    }},
+    "trackingGuidance": { "type": "string" }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+---
+
+#### Stage 5 — Per-ticket amend (parallel, only tickets with amendments)
+
+Apply cross-set amendments to the tickets that need them:
+
+```js
+const toAmend = (critic.perTicketAmendments || []).filter(a => a.amendments.length > 0);
+if (toAmend.length) {
+  await parallel(toAmend.map(a => () =>
+    agent(`Apply cross-set amendments to ticket "${a.title}":
+Amendments: ${JSON.stringify(a.amendments)}
+Rules: same as revise — never invent; unresolvable items go to Open Questions; initiative scope wins over any amendment that contradicts it.`, {
+      agentType: "Synthesize"
+    })
+  ));
+}
+```
+
+---
+
+#### Stage 6 — Assemble tracking issue
+
+One Synthesize agent writes the tracking-issue document from the final ticket set + critic guidance:
+
+```js
+const tracker = await agent(`Write a tracking-issue document for the initiative.
+Guidance from cross-set critic: ${JSON.stringify(critic.trackingGuidance)}
+Final tickets: ${JSON.stringify(revised)}
+Structure: initiative context (1–2 paragraphs) + wave-structured execution checklist + ticket index (one line per ticket, user-facing) + explicitly-excluded items (decisions, not oversights) + invariants that bind every ticket.
+Output: write to the artifact path and return { path, title }.`, {
+  agentType: "Synthesize",
+  schema: { type: "object", required: ["path", "title"],
+    properties: { path: { type: "string" }, title: { type: "string" } } }
+});
+```
+
+---
+
+#### Usage notes for commands that import this partial
+
+- The `candidates` array is **what the model proposed + user confirmed** — never hardcoded.
+- The `initiative` variable is the raw user input (a description, a spec doc path, or inline text) — read it and distill before passing to agents.
+- The `constraints` variable is optional: any cross-cutting rules (naming discipline, scope filters, authority order) the user supplied.
+- Emit artifact files using the `ticket_body_template()` shape (from `_ticket_template.mds`) for each ticket — write inside agents, since the script body has no filesystem access.
+- Tracking-issue doc goes to `.devflow/docs/tickets/{slug}/{ts}/tracking-issue.md` (agents do the writing).
+- For large initiatives (more than ~8 tickets), chunk the `parallel(map())` fan-outs into batches (e.g. `for` loop over slices, `await`-ing each batch) so agent concurrency stays bounded and provider rate limits are respected.
+
+---
+
+### Artifact paths
+
+Tickets → `.devflow/docs/tickets/{slug}/{ts}/{ticket-slug}.md`
+
+Tracking issue → `.devflow/docs/tickets/{slug}/{ts}/tracking-issue.md`
+
+Honor the `WORKTREE_PATH` prefix when provided: all artifact paths become `{WORKTREE_PATH}/.devflow/docs/tickets/...`.
+
+Timestamps follow the devflow `YYYY-MM-DD_HHMM` convention (date and time separated by an underscore, e.g. `2026-06-12_1148`). The `ts` variable in the workflow script generates this format.
+
+---
+
+### Output schema
+
+The workflow returns:
+
+```json
+{
+  "ticketPaths": ["string — path to each written ticket file"],
+  "trackingIssuePath": "string — path to the tracking-issue document",
+  "criticVerdict": "string — whole-set verdict from the cross-critic",
+  "amendedTickets": ["string — titles of tickets that received cross-set amendments"],
+  "openQuestions": ["string — unresolved questions to review before /devflow:dynamic-plan"]
+}
+```
+
+The tracking-issue path and any open questions are the primary handoff to `/devflow:dynamic-plan`.
+
+---
+
+### Maintenance note
+
+This recipe encodes the ticket-factory shape as of the authoring date (2026-06-12). The pipeline structure (`draft → [2-lens review] → revise → whole-set critic → amend → tracking-issue`) is the load-bearing invariant. Per ADR-008, no deterministic ticket-parsing logic is added — ticket slates are proposed by the model and confirmed by the user. When the devflow agent roster changes, update the `agentType` values above. No tooling detects drift — by design (ADR-008 Iron Rule).