prjct-cli 2.14.2 → 2.15.0
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- package/CHANGELOG.md +34 -1
- package/bin/prjct +15 -0
- package/dist/bin/prjct-core.mjs +638 -594
- package/dist/bin/prjct.mjs +1 -1
- package/dist/daemon/entry.mjs +509 -465
- package/dist/mcp/server.mjs +323 -275
- package/dist/templates.json +1 -1
- package/package.json +1 -1
- package/templates/sdd-canonical-sequence.md +85 -0
- package/templates/skills/prjct/SKILL.md +416 -0
- package/templates/spec-reviewer-rubrics/architecture.md +47 -0
- package/templates/spec-reviewer-rubrics/design.md +38 -0
- package/templates/spec-reviewer-rubrics/strategic.md +32 -0
- package/templates/spec-template.md +94 -0
- /package/templates/{planning-methodology.md → planning-methodology-deep.md} +0 -0
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# SDD canonical sequence — prjct
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Spec-Driven Development is prjct's default flow for substantive work. The six stations:
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## Stations
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The user describes a feature, fix, or initiative WITH goals or stakes. You don't run `task` yet. You run `prjct spec "<title>"` and walk the forcing questions:
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- acceptance criteria (testable, observable list)
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The CLI persists this in the `specs` table; the vault renders to `_generated/specs/<slug>.md`.
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### 2. `audit-spec`
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Before writing any code: harden the spec. Run `prjct audit-spec <id>` — it emits a dispatch prompt for THREE review subagents that you run IN PARALLEL (one tool-use block per reviewer in the SAME message):
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Each returns a verdict (pass | fail) + notes. You write each back via `prjct spec record-review`. When all three pass, the spec auto-promotes from `draft` → `reviewed`.
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If any reviewer fails: revise the spec via `prjct spec update`, re-audit. The cost of iteration is minutes; the cost of mid-implementation rework is hours-to-days.
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prjct task "implement rate-limit middleware" --spec <id>
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description: "Spec-Driven Development runtime + project memory. When the user describes a feature, fix, or initiative WITH goals or stakes attached (think rate-limiting an endpoint, fixing onboarding, building feature X that solves Y) draft a spec FIRST via `prjct spec` (Goal/Acceptance/Scope/Risks) then `audit-spec` (three parallel reviewers) then `task --spec <id>` then `ship` (acceptance gate). For routine work (single-file fix, doc tweak, GTD capture) skip the spec and use the matching verb directly. Recognize the intent in any language (es/en) and run the verb yourself — never make the user type commands. Routine captures (capture, remember, tag) auto-execute and confirm in one line; destructive verbs (ship, status done) suggest-and-confirm. Heavy reviews (audit, review, security, investigate, audit-spec) dispatch as parallel subagents. Lookup-first: check the vault before re-reading source."
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known gotchas). The verb intent map below applies in both states.
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- `prjct spec "<title>"` — frame work BEFORE coding (Goal/Acceptance/Scope/Risks)
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- `prjct audit-spec <id>` — dispatch parallel strategic/architecture/design review
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- `prjct capture "<anything>"` — inbox dump (zero ceremony)
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- `prjct remember <type> "<content>" [--tags]` — typed memory entry
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- `prjct context memory [topic]` — recall with optional keyword filter
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Base memory types: `fact · decision · learning · gotcha · pattern · anti-pattern · shipped · inbox · todo · idea · insight · question · source · person · spec`. Any lowercase string works (e.g. `recipe`, `okr`, `stakeholder`).
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- **audit-spec** — spec exists, before any code. Dispatch three review subagents in PARALLEL (strategic / architecture / design). Each returns pass|fail + notes. All three pass → spec auto-promotes draft → reviewed → safe to start `task`.
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Signals: the user describes a feature, fix, or initiative WITH goals/stakes attached — "we need to add rate limiting", "the onboarding is broken", "let's build SDD into prjct". Distinguishing tells vs `task`: the user mentions WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE or WHY IT MATTERS or ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA. They're not just naming a unit of work — they're framing one.
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What to do: SUGGEST `prjct spec "<title>"` in one line ("I'll draft a spec — Goal/Acceptance/Scope/Risks. ~30 sec, then we audit and start the task. Ok?"). On green light, create the spec and walk the forcing questions: goal, eli10, stakes, acceptance criteria, scope, out_of_scope, risks, test_plan. Persist via `prjct spec update <id> --json '{...}'`. Then suggest `prjct audit-spec <id>` to harden it before any code.
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5. Surface the ranked list. For high-severity items that touch shared infra (`risk-areas/` cross-reference), use the decision-brief format before any auto-fix.
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6. Persist: each finding → `prjct remember gotcha` with `--tags workflow:audit,subagent:<a|b|c>,severity:<level>`.
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# Design reviewer rubric — `audit-spec`
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3. **Consistency** — does it match the surrounding system's conventions? 0 = a foreign body; 10 = indistinguishable from neighboring features.
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4. **Accessibility** — for UI: keyboard / screen-reader / contrast / motion. For API/CLI: discoverability, error messages, --help, machine-readable output. 0 = unusable for entire categories of users; 10 = enables everyone.
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## Verdict rule
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**Fail:** "clarity=4 ergonomics=6 consistency=7 accessibility=7. Clarity tanks because the verb name `prjct shimmer` doesn't telegraph the action; rename to `prjct refresh` or `prjct rebuild` and re-rate. Other dimensions are healthy."
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- Ignoring accessibility for "internal tools" — internal users include the colorblind and the blind.
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- Failing on aesthetic taste alone (color, typography). Design rubric is about USE, not opinion.
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# Strategic reviewer rubric — `audit-spec`
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## Questions to ask
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1. **Is the goal real?** Does this solve a problem the user (or org) actually has? Or is it a tools-team-flavored solution looking for a problem?
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2. **Is the goal worth the cost?** Crude estimate of build cost vs. impact. If goal is small but cost is large, fail.
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3. **Is `out_of_scope` coherent with `goal`?** Goal that says "fix onboarding" with `out_of_scope: ["welcome email", "first-login flow"]` — what's left? Fail if scope evaporates the goal.
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4. **Is the spec OVER-scoped?** Trying to ship a quarter's work in one PR. Boil-the-lake principle says completeness is cheap when it costs minutes — fail when it costs months.
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5. **Is the spec UNDER-scoped?** Acceptance criteria so narrow that shipping doesn't move the needle. Fail when meeting all criteria still leaves the user's problem unsolved.
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6. **Are stakes honest?** "Users will be frustrated" is too vague. "Auth fails for 3% of sessions during peak load" is testable.
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verdict: pass | fail
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notes: 2–4 sentences. If pass, name the strongest framing element. If fail, name the SINGLE
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biggest gap and how to close it.
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## Examples
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**Pass:** "Goal is concrete (sub-200ms p95 on dashboard) and the stakes are measurable (lost engagement on slow widgets). Scope and out_of_scope draw a clean line. The strongest element is the explicit 'no caching layer in this PR' — that's the right anti-creep."
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**Fail:** "Goal says 'improve auth UX' but acceptance_criteria all measure backend latency. Either rewrite the goal (this is a perf spec, not UX) or rewrite the criteria (add a usability metric). Currently the spec would pass review on a perf change that didn't move UX at all."
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- Praising the spec without naming a strength (`pass: looks good!` — useless).
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- Failing without proposing a fix (the next iteration of the spec needs a path forward).
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- Auto-failing because the spec is "ambitious" — strategic review measures soundness, not size.
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