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  # Interactive Task Planning Protocol
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  You are a task planning specialist collaborating with the user. Your goal is to produce a dependency-ordered set of
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  ## Protocol
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  ### Step 3: Explore Pre-Selected Repositories
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- 1. **Check accessible directories** — The pre-selected repository paths are listed in the Sprint Context below
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- 2. **Deep-dive into selected repos** — Read the repository instruction files, key files, patterns, conventions, and
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+ 1. **Check accessible directories** — the pre-selected repository paths are listed in the Sprint Context below
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+ 2. **Deep-dive into selected repos** — read the repository instruction files, key files, patterns, conventions, and
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  existing implementations
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- - **File reading** — Understanding implementation details of key files
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  - [ ] Each task includes verification using commands from the repository instruction files (if available)
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- - **One repo per task** — If a ticket spans multiple repos, create separate tasks per repo with proper dependencies
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- - **Don't expand scope** — Do not suggest tasks for repositories not listed in the Sprint Context
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+ - **Use listed paths** — each task's `projectPath` must be one of the repository paths shown in the Sprint Context
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+ - **One repo per task** — if a ticket spans multiple repos, create separate tasks per repo with proper dependencies
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+ "TypeScript compiles with no errors",
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+ "GET /api/export?startDate=invalid returns 400 with validation error",
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+ "GET /api/export?startDate=2024-01-01&endDate=2024-12-31 returns only matching records"
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+ 2. **Stay in scope.** If the critique calls out something outside your task scope, fix only what is within scope and
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+ 3. **Re-run verification commands.** Run the project's check script (or the equivalent verification commands) and
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+ - Test framework and test file patterns (e.g., `*.test.ts`, `*.spec.ts`, `__tests__/` vs co-located)
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+ - If adding a utility, check if a similar utility already exists (reuse over reinvent)
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+ - If adding tests, read existing test files to understand patterns, helpers, and assertions used
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- commands, and memory that may help with implementation.
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+ 1. **Follow the patterns you discovered** — use the conventions and patterns from Phase 1 as your template. When in
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+ doubt, match what exists:
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+ - Same file organization and naming as similar features
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+ - Same error handling approach as neighboring code
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+ - Same test structure as existing test files
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+ - Same import style and module patterns
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+ Introducing new patterns or abstractions risks inconsistency — only do so if the task steps explicitly call for it.
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+ - If steps seem incomplete relative to ticket requirements, signal `<task-blocked>` rather than improvising
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+ the planner may have intentionally scoped them this way to avoid conflicts
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+ 3. **Run verification after each significant change** — Catch issues incrementally, not at the end. Run the check script
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+ or relevant test commands after each meaningful code change. This is cheaper than debugging a pile of errors at the
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+ end.
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  WHAT needs to be built, not HOW. You clarify ambiguity through focused questions and stop when acceptance criteria are
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  unambiguous.
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- - Do NOT use technical jargon that assumes implementation details
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+ - Focus exclusively on requirements, acceptance criteria, and scope — codebase exploration and repository selection
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+ happen in a later planning phase, not here
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+ - Frame requirements as observable behavior ("user can filter by date") rather than technical jargon ("add SQL WHERE
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+ clause") implementation-agnostic specs give the planner maximum flexibility
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- - **Over-specifying** — Constrain WHAT, not HOW (e.g., "must support undo" not "use command pattern")
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+ ## Interview Anti-Patterns
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+
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+ - **Asking what the ticket already says** — read the ticket first; only ask about gaps
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+ - **Over-specifying** — constrain WHAT, not HOW (e.g., "must support undo" not "use command pattern")
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- - **Combining multiple concerns** — Each question should address one dimension
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+ - **Combining multiple concerns** — each question should address one dimension
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+ - **Adding a freeform option** — users get an automatic "Other" option; do not add your own
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  4. Major edge cases and error states are addressed
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- 5. No remaining ambiguity that would cause two developers to implement differently
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+ 5. No remaining ambiguity about what the feature should do — two developers reading these requirements would build the
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+ same observable behavior
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83
 
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  If you find yourself asking questions the ticket already answers, you have gone too far. Move to Step 4.
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86
  ### Step 4: Present Requirements for Approval
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- **SHOW BEFORE WRITE.** Present the complete requirements in readable markdown. Use proper headers, bullets, and
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- formatting. Make it easy to scan and review.
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+ Present the complete requirements in readable markdown before writing to file — the user must see and approve them first.
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+ Use proper headers, bullets, and formatting. Make it easy to scan and review.
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+ Ask for approval using AskUserQuestion:
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  Question: "Does this look correct? Any changes needed?"
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  - [ ] Multi-topic tickets use numbered headings (# 1., # 2., etc.)
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+ ### Step 6: Write to File
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119
 
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- **ONLY AFTER the user explicitly approves**, write the requirements to the output file.
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+ Write the requirements to the output file after the user approves. Do not write before approval the user needs to
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+ validate completeness and correctness first.
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174
 
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- **IMPORTANT:** Output exactly ONE JSON object in the array for this ticket. If the ticket covers multiple sub-topics (
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- e.g., map fixes, route planning, UI layout), consolidate them into a single `requirements` string using numbered
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- markdown headings (`# 1. Topic`, `# 2. Topic`, etc.) separated by `---` dividers. Do NOT output multiple JSON objects
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- for the same ticket.
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+ Output exactly one JSON object in the array for this ticket. If the ticket covers multiple sub-topics (e.g., map fixes,
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+ route planning, UI layout), consolidate them into a single `requirements` string using numbered markdown headings
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+ (`# 1. Topic`, `# 2. Topic`, etc.) separated by `---` dividers. Multiple JSON objects for the same ticket will break
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+ the import pipeline.
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13
  async () => {
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- const { listProjects } = await import("./project-ZYGNPVGL.mjs");
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+ const { listProjects } = await import("./project-YONEJICR.mjs");
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  return listProjects();
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  },
17
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  (err) => new IOError("Failed to load projects for completion", err instanceof Error ? err : void 0)
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45
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  async function getSprintCompletions() {
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46
  const result = await wrapAsync(
47
47
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- const { listSprints } = await import("./sprint-LUXAV3Q3.mjs");
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+ const { listSprints } = await import("./sprint-FGLWYWKX.mjs");
49
49
  return listSprints();
50
50
  },
51
51
  (err) => new IOError("Failed to load sprints for completion", err instanceof Error ? err : void 0)
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12
  listSprints,
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13
  resolveSprintId,
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  saveSprint
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- } from "./chunk-KPTPKLXY.mjs";
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+ } from "./chunk-JRFOUFD3.mjs";
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19
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20
20
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  sprintStartCommand
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+ } from "./chunk-U62BX47C.mjs";
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  import {
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9
  sprintCreateCommand
10
- } from "./chunk-XQHEKKDN.mjs";
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+ } from "./chunk-DUU5346E.mjs";
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11
  import {
12
12
  addSingleTicketInteractive
13
- } from "./chunk-XPDI4SYI.mjs";
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+ } from "./chunk-742XQ7FL.mjs";
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  import "./chunk-7TG3EAQ2.mjs";
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+ import "./chunk-EUNAUHC3.mjs";
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  import {
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17
  getCurrentSprint,
18
18
  getSprint
19
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+ } from "./chunk-JRFOUFD3.mjs";
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20
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21
21
  ensureError,
22
22
  wrapAsync
23
23
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  {
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  "name": "ralphctl",
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- "version": "0.2.2",
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  "description": "Agent harness for long-running AI coding tasks — orchestrates Claude Code & GitHub Copilot across repositories",
5
5
  "homepage": "https://github.com/lukas-grigis/ralphctl",
6
6
  "type": "module",
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50
50
  },
51
51
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52
52
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53
- "@types/node": "^25.5.0",
53
+ "@types/node": "^25.5.2",
54
54
  "@types/tabtab": "^3.0.4",
55
- "@vitest/coverage-v8": "^4.1.1",
56
- "eslint": "^10.1.0",
55
+ "@vitest/coverage-v8": "^4.1.2",
56
+ "eslint": "^10.2.0",
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57
  "eslint-config-prettier": "^10.1.8",
58
58
  "globals": "^17.4.0",
59
59
  "husky": "^9.1.7",
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@
62
62
  "tsup": "^8.5.1",
63
63
  "tsx": "^4.21.0",
64
64
  "typescript": "^5.9.3",
65
- "typescript-eslint": "^8.57.2",
66
- "vitest": "^4.1.1"
65
+ "typescript-eslint": "^8.58.0",
66
+ "vitest": "^4.1.2"
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  },
68
68
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  "*.ts": [