Archive a completed milestone, preparing for the next version, marking a milestone complete, shipping a version, or wrapping up milestone work. Triggers include "complete milestone", "finish milestone", "archive milestone", "ship version", "mark milestone done", "milestone complete", "release version", "create release", and "ship milestone".
Scanned 2/12/2026
Install via CLI
openskills install gannonh/kata-orchestrator---
name: kata-complete-milestone
description: Archive a completed milestone, preparing for the next version, marking a milestone complete, shipping a version, or wrapping up milestone work. Triggers include "complete milestone", "finish milestone", "archive milestone", "ship version", "mark milestone done", "milestone complete", "release version", "create release", and "ship milestone".
metadata:
version: "0.1.0"
allowed-tools: Read Write Bash
---
<objective>
Mark milestone {{version}} complete, archive to milestones/, and update ROADMAP.md and REQUIREMENTS.md.
Purpose: Create historical record of shipped version, archive milestone artifacts (roadmap + requirements), and prepare for next milestone.
Output: Milestone archived (roadmap + requirements), PROJECT.md evolved, git tagged.
</objective>
<execution_context>
**Load these files NOW (before proceeding):**
- @./references/milestone-complete.md (main workflow)
- @./references/milestone-archive-template.md (archive template)
- @./references/version-detector.md (version detection functions)
- @./references/changelog-generator.md (changelog generation functions)
</execution_context>
<context>
**Project files:**
- `.planning/ROADMAP.md`
- `.planning/REQUIREMENTS.md`
- `.planning/STATE.md`
- `.planning/PROJECT.md`
**User input:**
- Version: {{version}} (e.g., "1.0", "1.1", "2.0")
</context>
<process>
**Follow milestone-complete.md workflow:**
0. **CRITICAL: Branch setup (if pr_workflow=true)**
**Check pr_workflow config FIRST before any other work:**
```bash
PR_WORKFLOW=$(cat .planning/config.json 2>/dev/null | grep -o '"pr_workflow"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*[^,}]*' | grep -o 'true\|false' || echo "false")
CURRENT_BRANCH=$(git branch --show-current)
```
**If `PR_WORKFLOW=true` AND on `main`:**
You MUST create a release branch BEFORE proceeding. All milestone completion work goes on that branch.
```bash
# Determine version from user input or detect from project files
# (version-detector.md handles detection across project types)
VERSION="X.Y.Z" # Set from user input or detection
# Create release branch
git checkout -b release/v$VERSION
echo "Created release branch: release/v$VERSION"
echo "All milestone completion work will be committed here."
```
Display:
```
⚠ pr_workflow is enabled — creating release branch first.
Branch: release/v$VERSION
All milestone completion commits will go to this branch.
After completion, a PR will be created to merge to main.
```
**If `PR_WORKFLOW=false` OR already on a non-main branch:**
Proceed with current branch (commits go to main or current branch).
**GATE: Do NOT proceed until branch is correct:**
- If pr_workflow=true, you must be on release/vX.Y.Z branch
- If pr_workflow=false, main branch is OK
0.1. **Generate release artifacts:**
Proactively generate changelog and version bump. Follow the release_workflow step in milestone-complete.md (loads version-detector.md and changelog-generator.md) to:
1. Detect version bump type from conventional commits
2. Calculate next version
3. Generate changelog entry
4. Bump version in all project version files detected by version-detector.md
5. Insert changelog entry into CHANGELOG.md
Present all proposed changes for review:
```
## Release Preview
**Current version:** $CURRENT_VERSION
**Bump type:** $BUMP_TYPE
**Next version:** $NEXT_VERSION
**Changelog entry:**
## [$NEXT_VERSION] - $DATE
### Added
[feat commits formatted]
### Fixed
[fix commits formatted]
### Changed
[docs/refactor/perf commits formatted]
**Files updated:**
[list each version file detected and updated]
- CHANGELOG.md → new entry prepended
```
Use AskUserQuestion:
- header: "Release Changes"
- question: "Review the release changes above. Approve?"
- options:
- "Approve" — Keep changes and proceed to verify readiness
- "Edit changelog first" — Pause for user edits, then confirm
- "Revert and skip release" — Undo release file changes, proceed to verify readiness without release artifacts
1. **Check for audit:**
- Look for `.planning/v{{version}}-MILESTONE-AUDIT.md`
- If missing or stale: recommend `/kata-audit-milestone` first
- If audit status is `gaps_found`: recommend `/kata-plan-milestone-gaps` first
- If audit status is `passed`: proceed to step 1
```markdown
## Pre-flight Check
{If no v{{version}}-MILESTONE-AUDIT.md:}
⚠ No milestone audit found. Run `/kata-audit-milestone` first to verify
requirements coverage, cross-phase integration, and E2E flows.
{If audit has gaps:}
⚠ Milestone audit found gaps. Run `/kata-plan-milestone-gaps` to create
phases that close the gaps, or proceed anyway to accept as tech debt.
{If audit passed:}
✓ Milestone audit passed. Proceeding with completion.
```
1. **Verify readiness:**
- Check all phases in milestone have completed plans (SUMMARY.md exists)
- Present milestone scope and stats
- Wait for confirmation
2. **Gather stats:**
- Count phases, plans, tasks
- Calculate git range, file changes, LOC
- Extract timeline from git log
- Present summary, confirm
3. **Extract accomplishments:**
- Read all phase SUMMARY.md files in milestone range
- Extract 4-6 key accomplishments
- Present for approval
4. **Archive milestone:**
- Create `.planning/milestones/v{{version}}-ROADMAP.md`
- Extract full phase details from ROADMAP.md
- Fill milestone-archive.md template
- Update ROADMAP.md to one-line summary with link
5. **Archive requirements:**
- Create `.planning/milestones/v{{version}}-REQUIREMENTS.md`
- Mark all v1 requirements as complete (checkboxes checked)
- Note requirement outcomes (validated, adjusted, dropped)
- Delete `.planning/REQUIREMENTS.md` (fresh one created for next milestone)
6. **Update PROJECT.md:**
- Add "Current State" section with shipped version
- Add "Next Milestone Goals" section
- Archive previous content in `<details>` (if v1.1+)
6.5. **Review Documentation (Non-blocking):**
Before committing, offer final README review:
Use AskUserQuestion:
- header: "Final README Review"
- question: "Revise README before completing milestone v{{version}}?"
- options:
- "Yes, draft an update for my review" — Revise README and present to the user for approval
- "No, I'll make the edits myself" — Pause for user review, wait for "continue"
- "Skip for now" — Proceed directly to commit
**If "Yes, I'll review now":**
```
Review README.md for the complete v{{version}} milestone.
Ensure all shipped features are documented.
Say "continue" when ready to proceed.
```
**If "Show README":**
Display README.md, then use AskUserQuestion:
- header: "README Accuracy"
- question: "Does this look accurate for v{{version}}?"
- options:
- "Yes, looks good" — Proceed to Step 7
- "Needs updates" — Pause for user edits, wait for "continue"
**If "Skip" or review complete:** Proceed to Step 7.
*Non-blocking: milestone completion continues regardless of choice.*
6.7. **Close GitHub Milestone:**
If github.enabled, close the GitHub Milestone for this version.
See milestone-complete.md `close_github_milestone` step for details.
7. **Commit and finalize:**
- Stage: MILESTONES.md, PROJECT.md, ROADMAP.md, STATE.md, archive files
- Commit: `chore: complete v{{version}} milestone`
**PR workflow handling (branch was created in step 0):**
```bash
PR_WORKFLOW=$(cat .planning/config.json 2>/dev/null | grep -o '"pr_workflow"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*[^,}]*' | grep -o 'true\|false' || echo "false")
CURRENT_BRANCH=$(git branch --show-current)
```
**If `PR_WORKFLOW=true` (on release/vX.Y.Z branch):**
Push branch and create PR:
```bash
# Push branch
git push -u origin "$CURRENT_BRANCH"
# Collect all phase issues for this milestone
GITHUB_ENABLED=$(cat .planning/config.json 2>/dev/null | grep -o '"enabled"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*[^,}]*' | head -1 | grep -o 'true\|false' || echo "false")
ISSUE_MODE=$(cat .planning/config.json 2>/dev/null | grep -o '"issueMode"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*"[^"]*"' | grep -o '"[^"]*"$' | tr -d '"' || echo "never")
CLOSES_LINES=""
if [ "$GITHUB_ENABLED" = "true" ] && [ "$ISSUE_MODE" != "never" ]; then
# Get all phase issue numbers for this milestone
# --state all includes already-closed issues (GitHub ignores redundant Closes #X,
# but including them ensures PR body reflects all related work)
PHASE_ISSUES=$(gh issue list --label phase --milestone "v{{version}}" \
--state all --json number --jq '.[].number' 2>/dev/null)
if [ -z "$PHASE_ISSUES" ]; then
echo "Note: No phase issues found for milestone v{{version}}. This is expected for milestones without GitHub issues."
fi
# Build multi-line closes section
for num in ${PHASE_ISSUES}; do
CLOSES_LINES="${CLOSES_LINES}Closes #${num}
"
done
fi
# Create PR
gh pr create \
--title "v{{version}}: [Milestone Name]" \
--body "$(cat <<EOF
## Summary
Completes milestone v{{version}}.
**Key accomplishments:**
- [accomplishment 1]
- [accomplishment 2]
- [accomplishment 3]
## Release Files
[list version files that were updated]
- `CHANGELOG.md` — v{{version}} entry added
## After Merge
Create GitHub Release with tag `v{{version}}`.
## Closes
${CLOSES_LINES}
EOF
)"
```
Display:
```
✓ PR created: [PR URL]
After merge:
→ Create GitHub Release with tag v{{version}}
```
**If `PR_WORKFLOW=false` (on main):**
Create tag locally:
- Tag: `git tag -a v{{version}} -m "[milestone summary]"`
- Ask about pushing tag
2. **Post-release verification:**
After the release PR is merged (or tag is pushed), prompt for verification:
```
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
POST-RELEASE CHECKLIST
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Before moving on, verify the release:
☐ CI/CD pipeline passed (if configured)
☐ Release artifacts published successfully
☐ Quick smoke test confirms basic functionality
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
```
Use AskUserQuestion:
- header: "Verification"
- question: "Release verification complete?"
- options:
- "Yes, verified" — Continue to completion
- "Something failed" — Stop and investigate
- "Skip" — Continue without verifying
**If "Something failed":** Stop and help debug the issue.
**If "Yes" or "Skip":** Continue to step 9.
3. **Offer next steps:**
- `/kata-add-milestone` — start next milestone (questioning → research → requirements → roadmap)
</process>
<success_criteria>
- Milestone archived to `.planning/milestones/v{{version}}-ROADMAP.md`
- Requirements archived to `.planning/milestones/v{{version}}-REQUIREMENTS.md`
- `.planning/REQUIREMENTS.md` deleted (fresh for next milestone)
- ROADMAP.md collapsed to one-line entry
- PROJECT.md updated with current state
- Git tag v{{version}} created (if pr_workflow=false) OR PR created/instructions given (if pr_workflow=true)
- GitHub Milestone v{{version}} closed (if github.enabled)
- Commit successful
- User knows next steps (including need for fresh requirements)
**If release workflow was run:**
- CHANGELOG.md updated with v{{version}} entry (reviewed and approved)
- Version bumped in all detected project version files
- GitHub Release created (if pr_workflow=false) OR instructions provided (if pr_workflow=true)
</success_criteria>
<critical_rules>
- **Load workflow first:** Read milestone-complete.md before executing
- **Verify completion:** All phases must have SUMMARY.md files
- **User confirmation:** Wait for approval at verification gates
- **Archive before deleting:** Always create archive files before updating/deleting originals
- **One-line summary:** Collapsed milestone in ROADMAP.md should be single line with link
- **Context efficiency:** Archive keeps ROADMAP.md and REQUIREMENTS.md constant size per milestone
- **Fresh requirements:** Next milestone starts with `/kata-add-milestone` which includes requirements definition
</critical_rules>
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