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+<purpose>
+
+Drive all remaining milestone phases autonomously. For each incomplete phase: discuss → plan → execute using Skill() flat invocations. Pauses only for explicit user decisions (grey area acceptance, blockers, validation requests). Re-reads ROADMAP.md after each phase to catch dynamically inserted phases.
+
+</purpose>
+
+<required_reading>
+
+Read all files referenced by the invoking prompt's execution_context before starting.
+
+</required_reading>
+
+<process>
+
+<step name="initialize" priority="first">
+
+## 1. Initialize
+
+Parse `$ARGUMENTS` for `--from N` flag:
+
+```bash
+FROM_PHASE=""
+if echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -qE '\-\-from\s+[0-9]'; then
+  FROM_PHASE=$(echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -oE '\-\-from\s+[0-9]+\.?[0-9]*' | awk '{print $2}')
+fi
+```
+
+Bootstrap via milestone-level init:
+
+```bash
+INIT=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" init milestone-op)
+if [[ "$INIT" == @file:* ]]; then INIT=$(cat "${INIT#@file:}"); fi
+```
+
+Parse JSON for: `milestone_version`, `milestone_name`, `phase_count`, `completed_phases`, `roadmap_exists`, `state_exists`, `commit_docs`.
+
+**If `roadmap_exists` is false:** Error — "No ROADMAP.md found. Run `/gsd:new-milestone` first."
+**If `state_exists` is false:** Error — "No STATE.md found. Run `/gsd:new-milestone` first."
+
+Display startup banner:
+
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GSD ► AUTONOMOUS
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+ Milestone: {milestone_version} — {milestone_name}
+ Phases: {phase_count} total, {completed_phases} complete
+```
+
+If `FROM_PHASE` is set, display: `Starting from phase ${FROM_PHASE}`
+
+</step>
+
+<step name="discover_phases">
+
+## 2. Discover Phases
+
+Run phase discovery:
+
+```bash
+ROADMAP=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" roadmap analyze)
+```
+
+Parse the JSON `phases` array.
+
+**Filter to incomplete phases:** Keep only phases where `disk_status !== "complete"` OR `roadmap_complete === false`.
+
+**Apply `--from N` filter:** If `FROM_PHASE` was provided, additionally filter out phases where `number < FROM_PHASE` (use numeric comparison — handles decimal phases like "5.1").
+
+**Sort by `number`** in numeric ascending order.
+
+**If no incomplete phases remain:**
+
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GSD ► AUTONOMOUS ▸ COMPLETE 🎉
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+ All phases complete! Nothing left to do.
+```
+
+Exit cleanly.
+
+**Display phase plan:**
+
+```
+## Phase Plan
+
+| # | Phase | Status |
+|---|-------|--------|
+| 5 | Skill Scaffolding & Phase Discovery | In Progress |
+| 6 | Smart Discuss | Not Started |
+| 7 | Auto-Chain Refinements | Not Started |
+| 8 | Lifecycle Orchestration | Not Started |
+```
+
+**Fetch details for each phase:**
+
+```bash
+DETAIL=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" roadmap get-phase ${PHASE_NUM})
+```
+
+Extract `phase_name`, `goal`, `success_criteria` from each. Store for use in execute_phase and transition messages.
+
+</step>
+
+<step name="execute_phase">
+
+## 3. Execute Phase
+
+For the current phase, display the progress banner:
+
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GSD ► AUTONOMOUS ▸ Phase {N}/{T}: {Name} [████░░░░] {P}%
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+```
+
+Where N = current phase number (from the ROADMAP, e.g., 6), T = total milestone phases (from `phase_count` parsed in initialize step, e.g., 8), P = percentage of all milestone phases completed so far. Calculate P as: (number of phases with `disk_status` "complete" from the latest `roadmap analyze` / T × 100). Use █ for filled and ░ for empty segments in the progress bar (8 characters wide).
+
+**3a. Smart Discuss**
+
+Check if CONTEXT.md already exists for this phase:
+
+```bash
+PHASE_STATE=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" init phase-op ${PHASE_NUM})
+```
+
+Parse `has_context` from JSON.
+
+**If has_context is true:** Skip discuss — context already gathered. Display:
+
+```
+Phase ${PHASE_NUM}: Context exists — skipping discuss.
+```
+
+Proceed to 3b.
+
+**If has_context is false:** Check if discuss is disabled via settings:
+
+```bash
+SKIP_DISCUSS=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" config-get workflow.skip_discuss 2>/dev/null || echo "false")
+```
+
+**If SKIP_DISCUSS is `true`:** Skip discuss entirely — the ROADMAP phase description is the spec. Display:
+
+```
+Phase ${PHASE_NUM}: Discuss skipped (workflow.skip_discuss=true) — using ROADMAP phase goal as spec.
+```
+
+Write a minimal CONTEXT.md so downstream plan-phase has valid input. Get phase details:
+
+```bash
+DETAIL=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" roadmap get-phase ${PHASE_NUM})
+```
+
+Extract `goal` and `requirements` from JSON. Write `${phase_dir}/${padded_phase}-CONTEXT.md` with:
+
+```markdown
+# Phase {PHASE_NUM}: {Phase Name} - Context
+
+**Gathered:** {date}
+**Status:** Ready for planning
+**Mode:** Auto-generated (discuss skipped via workflow.skip_discuss)
+
+<domain>
+## Phase Boundary
+
+{goal from ROADMAP phase description}
+
+</domain>
+
+<decisions>
+## Implementation Decisions
+
+### Claude's Discretion
+All implementation choices are at Claude's discretion — discuss phase was skipped per user setting. Use ROADMAP phase goal, success criteria, and codebase conventions to guide decisions.
+
+</decisions>
+
+<code_context>
+## Existing Code Insights
+
+Codebase context will be gathered during plan-phase research.
+
+</code_context>
+
+<specifics>
+## Specific Ideas
+
+No specific requirements — discuss phase skipped. Refer to ROADMAP phase description and success criteria.
+
+</specifics>
+
+<deferred>
+## Deferred Ideas
+
+None — discuss phase skipped.
+
+</deferred>
+```
+
+Commit the minimal context:
+
+```bash
+node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" commit "docs(${PADDED_PHASE}): auto-generated context (discuss skipped)" --files "${phase_dir}/${padded_phase}-CONTEXT.md"
+```
+
+Proceed to 3b.
+
+**If SKIP_DISCUSS is `false` (or unset):** Execute the smart_discuss step for this phase.
+
+After smart_discuss completes, verify context was written:
+
+```bash
+PHASE_STATE=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" init phase-op ${PHASE_NUM})
+```
+
+Check `has_context`. If false → go to handle_blocker: "Smart discuss for phase ${PHASE_NUM} did not produce CONTEXT.md."
+
+**3a.5. UI Design Contract (Frontend Phases)**
+
+Check if this phase has frontend indicators and whether a UI-SPEC already exists:
+
+```bash
+PHASE_SECTION=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" roadmap get-phase ${PHASE_NUM} 2>/dev/null)
+echo "$PHASE_SECTION" | grep -iE "UI|interface|frontend|component|layout|page|screen|view|form|dashboard|widget" > /dev/null 2>&1
+HAS_UI=$?
+UI_SPEC_FILE=$(ls "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-UI-SPEC.md 2>/dev/null | head -1)
+```
+
+Check if UI phase workflow is enabled:
+
+```bash
+UI_PHASE_CFG=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" config-get workflow.ui_phase 2>/dev/null || echo "true")
+```
+
+**If `HAS_UI` is 0 (frontend indicators found) AND `UI_SPEC_FILE` is empty (no UI-SPEC exists) AND `UI_PHASE_CFG` is not `false`:**
+
+Display:
+
+```
+Phase ${PHASE_NUM}: Frontend phase detected — generating UI design contract...
+```
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gsd:ui-phase", args="${PHASE_NUM}")
+```
+
+Verify UI-SPEC was created:
+
+```bash
+UI_SPEC_FILE=$(ls "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-UI-SPEC.md 2>/dev/null | head -1)
+```
+
+**If `UI_SPEC_FILE` is still empty after ui-phase:** Display warning `Phase ${PHASE_NUM}: UI-SPEC generation did not produce output — continuing without design contract.` and proceed to 3b.
+
+**If `HAS_UI` is 1 (no frontend indicators) OR `UI_SPEC_FILE` is not empty (UI-SPEC already exists) OR `UI_PHASE_CFG` is `false`:** Skip silently to 3b.
+
+**3b. Plan**
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gsd:plan-phase", args="${PHASE_NUM}")
+```
+
+Verify plan produced output — re-run `init phase-op` and check `has_plans`. If false → go to handle_blocker: "Plan phase ${PHASE_NUM} did not produce any plans."
+
+**3c. Execute**
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gsd:execute-phase", args="${PHASE_NUM} --no-transition")
+```
+
+**3d. Post-Execution Routing**
+
+After execute-phase returns, read the verification result:
+
+```bash
+VERIFY_STATUS=$(grep "^status:" "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-VERIFICATION.md 2>/dev/null | head -1 | cut -d: -f2 | tr -d ' ')
+```
+
+Where `PHASE_DIR` comes from the `init phase-op` call already made in step 3a. If the variable is not in scope, re-fetch:
+
+```bash
+PHASE_STATE=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" init phase-op ${PHASE_NUM})
+```
+
+Parse `phase_dir` from the JSON.
+
+**If VERIFY_STATUS is empty** (no VERIFICATION.md or no status field):
+
+Go to handle_blocker: "Execute phase ${PHASE_NUM} did not produce verification results."
+
+**If `passed`:**
+
+Display:
+```
+Phase ${PHASE_NUM} ✅ ${PHASE_NAME} — Verification passed
+```
+
+Proceed to iterate step.
+
+**If `human_needed`:**
+
+Read the human_verification section from VERIFICATION.md to get the count and items requiring manual testing.
+
+Display the items, then ask user via AskUserQuestion:
+- **question:** "Phase ${PHASE_NUM} has items needing manual verification. Validate now or continue to next phase?"
+- **options:** "Validate now" / "Continue without validation"
+
+On **"Validate now"**: Present the specific items from VERIFICATION.md's human_verification section. After user reviews, ask:
+- **question:** "Validation result?"
+- **options:** "All good — continue" / "Found issues"
+
+On "All good — continue": Display `Phase ${PHASE_NUM} ✅ Human validation passed` and proceed to iterate step.
+
+On "Found issues": Go to handle_blocker with the user's reported issues as the description.
+
+On **"Continue without validation"**: Display `Phase ${PHASE_NUM} ⏭ Human validation deferred` and proceed to iterate step.
+
+**If `gaps_found`:**
+
+Read gap summary from VERIFICATION.md (score and missing items). Display:
+```
+⚠ Phase ${PHASE_NUM}: ${PHASE_NAME} — Gaps Found
+Score: {N}/{M} must-haves verified
+```
+
+Ask user via AskUserQuestion:
+- **question:** "Gaps found in phase ${PHASE_NUM}. How to proceed?"
+- **options:** "Run gap closure" / "Continue without fixing" / "Stop autonomous mode"
+
+On **"Run gap closure"**: Execute gap closure cycle (limit: 1 attempt):
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gsd:plan-phase", args="${PHASE_NUM} --gaps")
+```
+
+Verify gap plans were created — re-run `init phase-op ${PHASE_NUM}` and check `has_plans`. If no new gap plans → go to handle_blocker: "Gap closure planning for phase ${PHASE_NUM} did not produce plans."
+
+Re-execute:
+```
+Skill(skill="gsd:execute-phase", args="${PHASE_NUM} --no-transition")
+```
+
+Re-read verification status:
+```bash
+VERIFY_STATUS=$(grep "^status:" "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-VERIFICATION.md 2>/dev/null | head -1 | cut -d: -f2 | tr -d ' ')
+```
+
+If `passed` or `human_needed`: Route normally (continue or ask user as above).
+
+If still `gaps_found` after this retry: Display "Gaps persist after closure attempt." and ask via AskUserQuestion:
+- **question:** "Gap closure did not fully resolve issues. How to proceed?"
+- **options:** "Continue anyway" / "Stop autonomous mode"
+
+On "Continue anyway": Proceed to iterate step.
+On "Stop autonomous mode": Go to handle_blocker.
+
+This limits gap closure to 1 automatic retry to prevent infinite loops.
+
+On **"Continue without fixing"**: Display `Phase ${PHASE_NUM} ⏭ Gaps deferred` and proceed to iterate step.
+
+On **"Stop autonomous mode"**: Go to handle_blocker with "User stopped — gaps remain in phase ${PHASE_NUM}".
+
+**3d.5. UI Review (Frontend Phases)**
+
+> Run after any successful execution routing (passed, human_needed accepted, or gaps deferred/accepted) — before proceeding to the iterate step.
+
+Check if this phase had a UI-SPEC (created in step 3a.5 or pre-existing):
+
+```bash
+UI_SPEC_FILE=$(ls "${PHASE_DIR}"/*-UI-SPEC.md 2>/dev/null | head -1)
+```
+
+Check if UI review is enabled:
+
+```bash
+UI_REVIEW_CFG=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" config-get workflow.ui_review 2>/dev/null || echo "true")
+```
+
+**If `UI_SPEC_FILE` is not empty AND `UI_REVIEW_CFG` is not `false`:**
+
+Display:
+
+```
+Phase ${PHASE_NUM}: Frontend phase with UI-SPEC — running UI review audit...
+```
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gsd:ui-review", args="${PHASE_NUM}")
+```
+
+Display the review result summary (score from UI-REVIEW.md if produced). Continue to iterate step regardless of score — UI review is advisory, not blocking.
+
+**If `UI_SPEC_FILE` is empty OR `UI_REVIEW_CFG` is `false`:** Skip silently to iterate step.
+
+</step>
+
+<step name="smart_discuss">
+
+## Smart Discuss
+
+Run smart discuss for the current phase. Proposes grey area answers in batch tables — the user accepts or overrides per area. Produces identical CONTEXT.md output to regular discuss-phase.
+
+> **Note:** Smart discuss is an autonomous-optimized variant of the `gsd:discuss-phase` skill. It produces identical CONTEXT.md output but uses batch table proposals instead of sequential questioning. The original `discuss-phase` skill remains unchanged (per CTRL-03). Future milestones may extract this to a separate skill file.
+
+**Inputs:** `PHASE_NUM` from execute_phase. Run init to get phase paths:
+
+```bash
+PHASE_STATE=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" init phase-op ${PHASE_NUM})
+```
+
+Parse from JSON: `phase_dir`, `phase_slug`, `padded_phase`, `phase_name`.
+
+---
+
+### Sub-step 1: Load prior context
+
+Read project-level and prior phase context to avoid re-asking decided questions.
+
+**Read project files:**
+
+```bash
+cat .planning/PROJECT.md 2>/dev/null || true
+cat .planning/REQUIREMENTS.md 2>/dev/null || true
+cat .planning/STATE.md 2>/dev/null || true
+```
+
+Extract from these:
+- **PROJECT.md** — Vision, principles, non-negotiables, user preferences
+- **REQUIREMENTS.md** — Acceptance criteria, constraints, must-haves vs nice-to-haves
+- **STATE.md** — Current progress, decisions logged so far
+
+**Read all prior CONTEXT.md files:**
+
+```bash
+(find .planning/phases -name "*-CONTEXT.md" 2>/dev/null || true) | sort
+```
+
+For each CONTEXT.md where phase number < current phase:
+- Read the `<decisions>` section — these are locked preferences
+- Read `<specifics>` — particular references or "I want it like X" moments
+- Note patterns (e.g., "user consistently prefers minimal UI", "user rejected verbose output")
+
+**Build internal prior_decisions context** (do not write to file):
+
+```
+<prior_decisions>
+## Project-Level
+- [Key principle or constraint from PROJECT.md]
+- [Requirement affecting this phase from REQUIREMENTS.md]
+
+## From Prior Phases
+### Phase N: [Name]
+- [Decision relevant to current phase]
+- [Preference that establishes a pattern]
+</prior_decisions>
+```
+
+If no prior context exists, continue without — expected for early phases.
+
+---
+
+### Sub-step 2: Scout Codebase
+
+Lightweight codebase scan to inform grey area identification and proposals. Keep under ~5% context.
+
+**Check for existing codebase maps:**
+
+```bash
+ls .planning/codebase/*.md 2>/dev/null || true
+```
+
+**If codebase maps exist:** Read the most relevant ones (CONVENTIONS.md, STRUCTURE.md, STACK.md based on phase type). Extract reusable components, established patterns, integration points. Skip to building context below.
+
+**If no codebase maps, do targeted grep:**
+
+Extract key terms from the phase goal. Search for related files:
+
+```bash
+grep -rl "{term1}\|{term2}" src/ app/ --include="*.ts" --include="*.tsx" --include="*.js" --include="*.jsx" 2>/dev/null | head -10 || true
+ls src/components/ src/hooks/ src/lib/ src/utils/ 2>/dev/null || true
+```
+
+Read the 3-5 most relevant files to understand existing patterns.
+
+**Build internal codebase_context** (do not write to file):
+- **Reusable assets** — existing components, hooks, utilities usable in this phase
+- **Established patterns** — how the codebase does state management, styling, data fetching
+- **Integration points** — where new code connects (routes, nav, providers)
+
+---
+
+### Sub-step 3: Analyze Phase and Generate Proposals
+
+**Get phase details:**
+
+```bash
+DETAIL=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" roadmap get-phase ${PHASE_NUM})
+```
+
+Extract `goal`, `requirements`, `success_criteria` from the JSON response.
+
+**Infrastructure detection — check FIRST before generating grey areas:**
+
+A phase is pure infrastructure when ALL of these are true:
+1. Goal keywords match: "scaffolding", "plumbing", "setup", "configuration", "migration", "refactor", "rename", "restructure", "upgrade", "infrastructure"
+2. AND success criteria are all technical: "file exists", "test passes", "config valid", "command runs"
+3. AND no user-facing behavior is described (no "users can", "displays", "shows", "presents")
+
+**If infrastructure-only:** Skip Sub-step 4. Jump directly to Sub-step 5 with minimal CONTEXT.md. Display:
+
+```
+Phase ${PHASE_NUM}: Infrastructure phase — skipping discuss, writing minimal context.
+```
+
+Use these defaults for the CONTEXT.md:
+- `<domain>`: Phase boundary from ROADMAP goal
+- `<decisions>`: Single "### Claude's Discretion" subsection — "All implementation choices are at Claude's discretion — pure infrastructure phase"
+- `<code_context>`: Whatever the codebase scout found
+- `<specifics>`: "No specific requirements — infrastructure phase"
+- `<deferred>`: "None"
+
+**If NOT infrastructure — generate grey area proposals:**
+
+Determine domain type from the phase goal:
+- Something users **SEE** → visual: layout, interactions, states, density
+- Something users **CALL** → interface: contracts, responses, errors, auth
+- Something users **RUN** → execution: invocation, output, behavior modes, flags
+- Something users **READ** → content: structure, tone, depth, flow
+- Something being **ORGANIZED** → organization: criteria, grouping, exceptions, naming
+
+Check prior_decisions — skip grey areas already decided in prior phases.
+
+Generate **3-4 grey areas** with **~4 questions each**. For each question:
+- **Pre-select a recommended answer** based on: prior decisions (consistency), codebase patterns (reuse), domain conventions (standard approaches), ROADMAP success criteria
+- Generate **1-2 alternatives** per question
+- **Annotate** with prior decision context ("You decided X in Phase N") and code context ("Component Y exists with Z variants") where relevant
+
+---
+
+### Sub-step 4: Present Proposals Per Area
+
+Present grey areas **one at a time**. For each area (M of N):
+
+Display a table:
+
+```
+### Grey Area {M}/{N}: {Area Name}
+
+| # | Question | ✅ Recommended | Alternative(s) |
+|---|----------|---------------|-----------------|
+| 1 | {question} | {answer} — {rationale} | {alt1}; {alt2} |
+| 2 | {question} | {answer} — {rationale} | {alt1} |
+| 3 | {question} | {answer} — {rationale} | {alt1}; {alt2} |
+| 4 | {question} | {answer} — {rationale} | {alt1} |
+```
+
+Then prompt the user via **AskUserQuestion**:
+- **header:** "Area {M}/{N}"
+- **question:** "Accept these answers for {Area Name}?"
+- **options:** Build dynamically — always "Accept all" first, then "Change Q1" through "Change QN" for each question (up to 4), then "Discuss deeper" last. Cap at 6 explicit options max (AskUserQuestion adds "Other" automatically).
+
+**On "Accept all":** Record all recommended answers for this area. Move to next area.
+
+**On "Change QN":** Use AskUserQuestion with the alternatives for that specific question:
+- **header:** "{Area Name}"
+- **question:** "Q{N}: {question text}"
+- **options:** List the 1-2 alternatives plus "You decide" (maps to Claude's Discretion)
+
+Record the user's choice. Re-display the updated table with the change reflected. Re-present the full acceptance prompt so the user can make additional changes or accept.
+
+**On "Discuss deeper":** Switch to interactive mode for this area only — ask questions one at a time using AskUserQuestion with 2-3 concrete options per question plus "You decide". After 4 questions, prompt:
+- **header:** "{Area Name}"
+- **question:** "More questions about {area name}, or move to next?"
+- **options:** "More questions" / "Next area"
+
+If "More questions", ask 4 more. If "Next area", display final summary table of captured answers for this area and move on.
+
+**On "Other" (free text):** Interpret as either a specific change request or general feedback. Incorporate into the area's decisions, re-display updated table, re-present acceptance prompt.
+
+**Scope creep handling:** If user mentions something outside the phase domain:
+
+```
+"{Feature} sounds like a new capability — that belongs in its own phase.
+I'll note it as a deferred idea.
+
+Back to {current area}: {return to current question}"
+```
+
+Track deferred ideas internally for inclusion in CONTEXT.md.
+
+---
+
+### Sub-step 5: Write CONTEXT.md
+
+After all areas are resolved (or infrastructure skip), write the CONTEXT.md file.
+
+**File path:** `${phase_dir}/${padded_phase}-CONTEXT.md`
+
+Use **exactly** this structure (identical to discuss-phase output):
+
+```markdown
+# Phase {PHASE_NUM}: {Phase Name} - Context
+
+**Gathered:** {date}
+**Status:** Ready for planning
+
+<domain>
+## Phase Boundary
+
+{Domain boundary statement from analysis — what this phase delivers}
+
+</domain>
+
+<decisions>
+## Implementation Decisions
+
+### {Area 1 Name}
+- {Accepted/chosen answer for Q1}
+- {Accepted/chosen answer for Q2}
+- {Accepted/chosen answer for Q3}
+- {Accepted/chosen answer for Q4}
+
+### {Area 2 Name}
+- {Accepted/chosen answer for Q1}
+- {Accepted/chosen answer for Q2}
+...
+
+### Claude's Discretion
+{Any "You decide" answers collected — note Claude has flexibility here}
+
+</decisions>
+
+<code_context>
+## Existing Code Insights
+
+### Reusable Assets
+- {From codebase scout — components, hooks, utilities}
+
+### Established Patterns
+- {From codebase scout — state management, styling, data fetching}
+
+### Integration Points
+- {From codebase scout — where new code connects}
+
+</code_context>
+
+<specifics>
+## Specific Ideas
+
+{Any specific references or "I want it like X" from discussion}
+{If none: "No specific requirements — open to standard approaches"}
+
+</specifics>
+
+<deferred>
+## Deferred Ideas
+
+{Ideas captured but out of scope for this phase}
+{If none: "None — discussion stayed within phase scope"}
+
+</deferred>
+```
+
+Write the file.
+
+**Commit:**
+
+```bash
+node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" commit "docs(${PADDED_PHASE}): smart discuss context" --files "${phase_dir}/${padded_phase}-CONTEXT.md"
+```
+
+Display confirmation:
+
+```
+Created: {path}
+Decisions captured: {count} across {area_count} areas
+```
+
+</step>
+
+<step name="iterate">
+
+## 4. Iterate
+
+After each phase completes, re-read ROADMAP.md to catch phases inserted mid-execution (decimal phases like 5.1):
+
+```bash
+ROADMAP=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" roadmap analyze)
+```
+
+Re-filter incomplete phases using the same logic as discover_phases:
+- Keep phases where `disk_status !== "complete"` OR `roadmap_complete === false`
+- Apply `--from N` filter if originally provided
+- Sort by number ascending
+
+Read STATE.md fresh:
+
+```bash
+cat .planning/STATE.md
+```
+
+Check for blockers in the Blockers/Concerns section. If blockers are found, go to handle_blocker with the blocker description.
+
+If incomplete phases remain: proceed to next phase, loop back to execute_phase.
+
+If all phases complete, proceed to lifecycle step.
+
+</step>
+
+<step name="lifecycle">
+
+## 5. Lifecycle
+
+After all phases complete, run the milestone lifecycle sequence: audit → complete → cleanup.
+
+Display lifecycle transition banner:
+
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GSD ► AUTONOMOUS ▸ LIFECYCLE
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+ All phases complete → Starting lifecycle: audit → complete → cleanup
+ Milestone: {milestone_version} — {milestone_name}
+```
+
+**5a. Audit**
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gsd:audit-milestone")
+```
+
+After audit completes, detect the result:
+
+```bash
+AUDIT_FILE=".planning/v${milestone_version}-MILESTONE-AUDIT.md"
+AUDIT_STATUS=$(grep "^status:" "${AUDIT_FILE}" 2>/dev/null | head -1 | cut -d: -f2 | tr -d ' ')
+```
+
+**If AUDIT_STATUS is empty** (no audit file or no status field):
+
+Go to handle_blocker: "Audit did not produce results — audit file missing or malformed."
+
+**If `passed`:**
+
+Display:
+```
+Audit ✅ passed — proceeding to complete milestone
+```
+
+Proceed to 5b (no user pause — per CTRL-01).
+
+**If `gaps_found`:**
+
+Read the gaps summary from the audit file. Display:
+```
+⚠ Audit: Gaps Found
+```
+
+Ask user via AskUserQuestion:
+- **question:** "Milestone audit found gaps. How to proceed?"
+- **options:** "Continue anyway — accept gaps" / "Stop — fix gaps manually"
+
+On **"Continue anyway"**: Display `Audit ⏭ Gaps accepted — proceeding to complete milestone` and proceed to 5b.
+
+On **"Stop"**: Go to handle_blocker with "User stopped — audit gaps remain. Run /gsd:audit-milestone to review, then /gsd:complete-milestone when ready."
+
+**If `tech_debt`:**
+
+Read the tech debt summary from the audit file. Display:
+```
+⚠ Audit: Tech Debt Identified
+```
+
+Show the summary, then ask user via AskUserQuestion:
+- **question:** "Milestone audit found tech debt. How to proceed?"
+- **options:** "Continue with tech debt" / "Stop — address debt first"
+
+On **"Continue with tech debt"**: Display `Audit ⏭ Tech debt acknowledged — proceeding to complete milestone` and proceed to 5b.
+
+On **"Stop"**: Go to handle_blocker with "User stopped — tech debt to address. Run /gsd:audit-milestone to review details."
+
+**5b. Complete Milestone**
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gsd:complete-milestone", args="${milestone_version}")
+```
+
+After complete-milestone returns, verify it produced output:
+
+```bash
+ls .planning/milestones/v${milestone_version}-ROADMAP.md 2>/dev/null || true
+```
+
+If the archive file does not exist, go to handle_blocker: "Complete milestone did not produce expected archive files."
+
+**5c. Cleanup**
+
+```
+Skill(skill="gsd:cleanup")
+```
+
+Cleanup shows its own dry-run and asks user for approval internally — this is an acceptable pause per CTRL-01 since it's an explicit decision about file deletion.
+
+**5d. Final Completion**
+
+Display final completion banner:
+
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GSD ► AUTONOMOUS ▸ COMPLETE 🎉
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+ Milestone: {milestone_version} — {milestone_name}
+ Status: Complete ✅
+ Lifecycle: audit ✅ → complete ✅ → cleanup ✅
+
+ Ship it! 🚀
+```
+
+</step>
+
+<step name="handle_blocker">
+
+## 6. Handle Blocker
+
+When any phase operation fails or a blocker is detected, present 3 options via AskUserQuestion:
+
+**Prompt:** "Phase {N} ({Name}) encountered an issue: {description}"
+
+**Options:**
+1. **"Fix and retry"** — Re-run the failed step (discuss, plan, or execute) for this phase
+2. **"Skip this phase"** — Mark phase as skipped, continue to the next incomplete phase
+3. **"Stop autonomous mode"** — Display summary of progress so far and exit cleanly
+
+**On "Fix and retry":** Loop back to the failed step within execute_phase. If the same step fails again after retry, re-present these options.
+
+**On "Skip this phase":** Log `Phase {N} ⏭ {Name} — Skipped by user` and proceed to iterate.
+
+**On "Stop autonomous mode":** Display progress summary:
+
+```
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+ GSD ► AUTONOMOUS ▸ STOPPED
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+ Completed: {list of completed phases}
+ Skipped: {list of skipped phases}
+ Remaining: {list of remaining phases}
+
+ Resume with: /gsd:autonomous --from {next_phase}
+```
+
+</step>
+
+</process>
+
+<success_criteria>
+- [ ] All incomplete phases executed in order (smart discuss → ui-phase → plan → execute → ui-review each)
+- [ ] Smart discuss proposes grey area answers in tables, user accepts or overrides per area
+- [ ] Progress banners displayed between phases
+- [ ] Execute-phase invoked with --no-transition (autonomous manages transitions)
+- [ ] Post-execution verification reads VERIFICATION.md and routes on status
+- [ ] Passed verification → automatic continue to next phase
+- [ ] Human-needed verification → user prompted to validate or skip
+- [ ] Gaps-found → user offered gap closure, continue, or stop
+- [ ] Gap closure limited to 1 retry (prevents infinite loops)
+- [ ] Plan-phase and execute-phase failures route to handle_blocker
+- [ ] ROADMAP.md re-read after each phase (catches inserted phases)
+- [ ] STATE.md checked for blockers before each phase
+- [ ] Blockers handled via user choice (retry / skip / stop)
+- [ ] Final completion or stop summary displayed
+- [ ] After all phases complete, lifecycle step is invoked (not manual suggestion)
+- [ ] Lifecycle transition banner displayed before audit
+- [ ] Audit invoked via Skill(skill="gsd:audit-milestone")
+- [ ] Audit result routing: passed → auto-continue, gaps_found → user decides, tech_debt → user decides
+- [ ] Audit technical failure (no file/no status) routes to handle_blocker
+- [ ] Complete-milestone invoked via Skill() with ${milestone_version} arg
+- [ ] Cleanup invoked via Skill() — internal confirmation is acceptable (CTRL-01)
+- [ ] Final completion banner displayed after lifecycle
+- [ ] Progress bar uses phase number / total milestone phases (not position among incomplete)
+- [ ] Smart discuss documents relationship to discuss-phase with CTRL-03 note
+- [ ] Frontend phases get UI-SPEC generated before planning (step 3a.5) if not already present
+- [ ] Frontend phases get UI review audit after successful execution (step 3d.5) if UI-SPEC exists
+- [ ] UI phase and UI review respect workflow.ui_phase and workflow.ui_review config toggles
+- [ ] UI review is advisory (non-blocking) — phase proceeds to iterate regardless of score
+</success_criteria>