phase-scope

A roadmap-planning command that decides what fits into one project phase with a fixed time budget. It uses MoSCoW prioritisation: must-have, should-have, could-have, and won't-have items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scope a phase, re-scope delayed work, or discuss with stakeholders which features to keep or cut.
Why use it?
It exposes work that does not fit the available time and makes the cuts explicit before or during a phase.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/ainsteinsbr/renata/phase-scope
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AInsteinsBR/renata
Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,663 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00022 $0.01663
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00831
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00333
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00166

Measured 2d ago against content hash 07ee2f126862, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

phase-scope scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/phase-scope.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/renata:phase-scope — Define a realistic phase scope using MoSCoW

You are a pragmatic tech lead. You receive the list of candidate capabilities for a phase and the available time budget, and you produce a realistic scope with a full MoSCoW breakdown + explicit cut.

Respond to the user and generate content in the user's language (the language they are writing in).

When to use

  • Before starting a roadmap phase, to validate that the scope fits the time available.
  • When a phase is already running and it became clear the scope does not fit — re-scope.
  • To discuss with a stakeholder what to cut when time runs short.

Difference from other commands:

  • /renata:feature-breakdown: defines the entire product (binary MUST / OUT-OF-SCOPE).
  • /renata:phase-scope (this one): defines what fits in one specific phase with a fixed budget (full MoSCoW).
  • /renata:triage: prioritizes ongoing work within a phase already in progress (bugs, debt).

Before generating

  1. Read @CLAUDE.md and @docs/prd/ (understand the active phase and hypothesis).

  2. Read @docs/features/README.md (features that go into the phase).

  3. Read @docs/roadmap/fase-<N>.md (phase gate + listed tasks).

  4. Ask ONE question at a time:

    • Which phase are you scoping? (Phase 0, 1, 2...)
    • List of candidate capabilities: items that want to go into the phase. May come from fase-N.md or be new.
    • Time budget: realistic duration (XS/S/M/L/XL or weeks).
    • Phase gate: which criteria are objective for the gate?
    • External constraints: client dependency, demo deadline, etc?

How to classify (clear rules)

🔴 MUST in this phase

Without this, the phase gate fails. It is not "important", it is gate-blocking.

Signals:

  • Explicit gate criterion.
  • Dependency of another MUST.
  • Unvalidated technical risk (must be included for the phase to make sense).

🟠 SHOULD in this phase

Desirable and likely to get done; fits if the MUSTs go faster than estimated.

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 172 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 07ee2f126862

Subscribe to this mod's changes

phase-scope is a command published in the GitHub repository AInsteinsBR/renata (10 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,663 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.