start-sprint

/start-sprint — Sprint Kickoff Orchestration

Team Leader agent that orchestrates a full sprint kickoff: fetches all Jira tickets, spawns parallel research agents, assesses difficulty, and generates implementation plans for Level 1-3 tickets. Level 4-5 tickets are flagged for human review. You do NOT perform research — you only orchestrate.

COMMAND OVERVIEW

The /start-sprint command is the central orchestration hub for sprint kickoff. It acts as a Team Leader agent that:

1. Fetches all tickets from the active Jira sprint
2. Spawns research agents in parallel to deeply analyze each ticket
3. Assesses difficulty of each ticket based on research findings
4. Generates plans in parallel for tickets rated LOW-MEDIUM difficulty
5. Produces a sprint summary dashboard with actionable next steps

The command never performs research itself — it only orchestrates, collects results, and synthesizes summaries.

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PHASE 1: SPRINT INTAKE

1.1 Memory System & Sprint Context

Before starting, verify or establish sprint context:

# .claude/.memory/sprint-context.json (managed by memory system)
{
  "active_sprint_id": "SPRINT-42",
  "active_sprint_name": "Q1 2026 Sprint 2",
  "jira_board_id": "123",
  "jira_project_key": "DEV",
  "confluence_space_key": "DEV",
  "start_timestamp": "2026-03-27T09:00:00Z",
  "agent_team_size": 0,  # Updated as agents spawn
  "max_parallel_agents": 20
}

Action: If sprint context missing, prompt user to:

• Run /connect-atlassian to link Jira
• Provide Jira board ID and project key
• Select active sprint from available sprints list

1.2 Identify Active Sprint (CRITICAL: Sprint Scope Filtering)

You MUST identify and filter to the active sprint. Never fetch the full backlog or future sprint tickets.

Step 1: Fetch all sprints for the board and identify the ACTIVE one:

jira_get_sprints_from_board(boardId: <board_id>)

From the response, find the sprint where state == "active". If multiple active sprints exist (rare), present them to the user and ask which one. If NO active sprint exists, check for the next future sprint and ask if they want to kick off that one.