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Decompose a specification document into an orchestration execution plan. **Input**: Spec file path (provided as argument or via environment `SPEC_PATH`), optional phase hint via `PHASE_HINT`. **You are a planning agent.** Your job is to analyze a spec document, explore the codebase, and produce an `orchestration-plan.json` that the orchestrator can dispatch.

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SKILL.md
Decompose a specification document into an orchestration execution plan.

**Input**: Spec file path (provided as argument or via environment `SPEC_PATH`), optional phase hint via `PHASE_HINT`.

**You are a planning agent.** Your job is to analyze a spec document, explore the codebase, and produce an `orchestration-plan.json` that the orchestrator can dispatch.

## Steps

1. **Read the spec**
   - If `SPEC_PATH` is a **directory** (multi-file spec):
     - Read the master file first (matching `v*-*.md` or `README.md` at root level)
     - Use the Agent tool (Explore) to analyze domains in parallel — one agent per subdirectory
     - Each agent should return: domain summary, key requirements, cross-references to other domains
     - Combine results into a unified view before decomposing
   - If `SPEC_PATH` is a **single file**:
     - If under 200 lines, read it directly
     - If over 200 lines, use the Agent tool (Explore) to analyze sections — do NOT load the entire spec into context
   - Identify completed items (checkboxes, "done" markers) and focus on incomplete work

2. **Read project context** (if files exist, skip gracefully if not)
   - `set/plugins/project-type.yaml` — verification rules, conventions, project type
   - `set/knowledge/project-knowledge.yaml` — cross-cutting files, feature registry
   - `set/requirements/*.yaml` — active requirements (status: captured or planned)
   - `set/orchestration/config.yaml` or `.claude/orchestration.yaml` — directives

   2b. **Read design-manifest.yaml (v0 pipeline)** — if `docs/design-manifest.yaml` exists
   - Load every route's `path` + `scope_keywords` into planning context
   - The manifest is the AUTHORITATIVE route inventory: every route MUST be accounted for in the plan
   - If no `docs/design-manifest.yaml` exists, skip this step + INFO log; the plan proceeds design-unaware (legacy mode)

3. **Explore the codebase**
   - Use the Agent tool (Explore) to scan for existing implementations matching spec topics
   - Understand what's already built vs what needs to be built
   - Identify shared files that multiple changes would touch (merge hazard)
   - Run multiple Explore agents in parallel for different spec sections

4. **Read the project's memory index**
   ```bash
   cat ~/.claude/projects/<project-slug>/memory/MEMORY.md
   ```
   One line per memory. Open the topic files that look relevant to this spec — past
   decomposition learnings, known pitfalls. There is no semantic search; the index is the
   search, and only its first 200 lines (25 KB) load automatically.

5. **Check existing work**
   ```bash
   openspec list --json
   ```
   List existing specs and active changes to avoid duplication.

6. **Bind design-manifest routes to changes (v0 pipeline)** — skip if `docs/design-manifest.yaml` was absent in step 2b
   - Every manifest route MUST end up in EITHER exactly one change's `design_routes: ["/…"]` OR the plan-level `deferred_design_routes: [{route, reason}]` list
   - A change without UI has `design_routes: []` (explicit empty list)
   - When spec mentions UI for a page with no matching manifest route, emit a `design_gap` ambiguity with options: (a) regenerate v0 to include the page, (b) remove from spec, (c) accept that fidelity gate will skip for that page
   - Emit a `design_route_map` debug section in the plan's `reasoning` field showing each route → change binding

7. **Generate the plan**

   Write `orchestration-plan.json` to the project root with this schema:

   ```json
   {
     "phase_detected": "Description of the phase/section being implemented",
     "reasoning": "Why this decomposition — what's the strategy",
     "changes": [
       {
         "name": "kebab-case-name",
         "scope": "Detailed description of what to implement + test requirements",
         "complexity": "S|M|L",
         "change_type": "<one of the valid change types — see below>",
         "model": "opus|sonnet",
         "has_manual_tasks": false,
         "depends_on": ["other-change-name"],
         "roadmap_item": "The spec section this implements",
         "design_routes": ["/", "/kavek"],
         "spec_files": ["path/relative/to/spec-dir.md"],
         "requirements": ["REQ-DOMAIN-001"],
         "also_affects_reqs": ["REQ-CROSS-001"]
       }
     ],
     "deferred_requirements": [
       {
         "id": "REQ-DOMAIN-002",
         "reason": "Depends on auth system, planned for next phase"
       }
     ],
     "deferred_design_routes": [
       {
         "route": "/admin/settings",
         "reason": "Phase 2 scope, skipped for this run"
       }
     ],
     "source_items": [
       {
         "id": "SI-1",
         "text": "Description of the spec item",
         "change": "assigned-change-name-or-null"
       }
     ]
   }

   **Note:** `spec_files`, `requirements`, and `also_affects_reqs` are only required when working with a multi-file spec that has been digested (`set/orchestration/digest/` exists). For single-file specs, omit these fields.

   **Source items (single-file mode only):** When there is NO digest directory, generate a `source_items` array listing every identifiable spec item (feature, requirement, task, checkbox) with an assigned change name or `null` if intentionally excluded. Omit `source_items` entirely in digest mode (digest uses `requirements.json` instead).

   **Requirement accounting (digest mode only):** When a digest exists, every requirement in `set/orchestration/digest/requirements.json` MUST be accounted for. Either:
   - Assign it to a change via `requirements[]` or `also_affects_reqs[]`, OR
   - List it in `deferred_requirements[]` with a reason explaining why it is deferred (e.g., dependency on another phase, out of scope for this sprint, intentionally excluded)

   Silent omission of requirements — assigning neither to a change nor to `deferred_requirements` — is a planning error. `validate_plan()` will report unaccounted requirements as errors and block dispatch.
   ```

## Decomposition Rules

**The valid `change_type` values — read them, do not recall them.** The list is defined in
exactly one place, the gate profile dictionary, because a change type *is* its gate profile.
Print it:

```bash
python3 -c "from set_orch.gate_profiles import change_type_enum; print(change_type_enum())"
```

This file used to spell the six names out inline, and that copy is why the instruction exists:
the same string had five hand-written copies across the framework, so a type added to the
dictionary reached none of them — including this file, which is **deployed into your project**
and therefore drifts on its own timetable. If the command above fails, stop and say so rather
than guessing a value: an invented `change_type` is not rejected, it silently runs the
strictest gate chain and the operator sees gates nobody configured.

Some types carry an entry condition and are refused when it is unmet — the refusal names what
is missing, so read the error rather than substituting another type.

**Sizing:**
- S: <10 tasks, M: 10-25 tasks, L: 25+ tasks (prefer splitting L into multiple changes)

**Dependency ordering:**
- Infrastructure/test setup → first
- Schema/migrations → before data-layer or API
- Foundational (auth, shared types) → before features
- cleanup-before → before feature changes in same area
- cleanup-after → last

**Shared resource awareness:**
- If 2+ changes touch the same files, chain via `depends_on`
- Cross-cutting files (from project-knowledge.yaml) are merge hazards — serialize changes touching them

**Model selection:**
- `opus` for all code-writing changes
- `sonnet` ONLY for doc-only changes (zero code modifications)

**Manual tasks:**
- Set `has_manual_tasks: true` for changes needing external intervention (API keys, DNS, OAuth setup)

**Design manifest binding (v0 pipeline):**
- When `docs/design-manifest.yaml` exists, every UI change MUST list the routes it implements in `design_routes: ["/…"]`
- Plan-wide every manifest route must land in exactly one change OR `deferred_design_routes`
- Changes without UI use `design_routes: []`
- When the spec mentions a page with no manifest route, flag `design_gap` in the plan's `reasoning` with options (regenerate v0, remove from spec, accept gate skip)

**Project type integration:**
- If `set/plugins/project-type.yaml` exists, use its verification rules to inform change_type and dependency ordering
- Project-type-specific patterns (e.g., "DB migration must be sequential") MUST be reflected

## Context Size Management

- Do NOT read entire large specs into your context — use Agent tool to analyze sections
- Sub-agents should return summaries (key points, requirements), not full file contents
- Project knowledge and requirements files are small — read directly
- Keep your working context focused on the decomposition task

## Output

After writing `orchestration-plan.json`, verify it:
- No circular dependencies
- All `depends_on` reference valid change names within the plan
- Complexity values are S, M, or L
- change_type is one of the valid values
- Every change has a non-empty scope and roadmap_item
- (Digest mode) Every digest requirement is assigned to a change or listed in `deferred_requirements` — none silently omitted

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