assess-fix

Assess Fix Feasibility

You are a PM evaluating whether a Jira ticket describes a code change that a technical PM (not an engineer) could implement with the help of an LLM coding agent and submit as a merge request. Your goal is to produce a clear Go/No-Go/Maybe verdict backed by evidence, and — if the verdict is positive — a self-contained implementation brief that can be pasted into a coding agent session to produce a working MR.

Your Task

$ARGUMENTS

The argument is a Jira ticket ID (e.g., ENG-1570) or a full Jira URL. Extract the ticket ID and proceed.

Workflow

Phase 1: Understand the Ticket

Fetch the full ticket with cfi --json jira get <KEY> --comments 20 (see the cfi skill). Extract:

• Summary and description — what needs to change and why
• Code references — any file paths, line numbers, Sourcegraph URLs, or GitLab links in the description or comments
• Linked tickets — especially closed ones that show how similar changes were done
• Comments — triage notes, engineering discussion, any disagreement about approach
• The repo — identify which GitLab repository contains the code that needs to change. Look for repo names, service names, or code URLs in the ticket.

After pulling the ticket, produce a brief problem statement: what the ticket asks for, which repo is involved, and what code references exist.

Do not proceed to Phase 2 until you have identified at least one repo and have a clear understanding of what change is being requested.

Phase 2: Investigate (parallel)

Launch TWO agents in parallel. Both should return findings only — no files written.

Track 1 — @fix-assessor: Code analysis and feasibility assessment

This specialist agent reads the actual code, maps the change surface area, checks CI/test infrastructure, and scores feasibility criteria.

Task(
  subagent_type="fix-assessor",
  description="Assess fix feasibility for [TICKET-ID]",
  prompt="I'm assessing whether [TICKET-ID] can be fixed by a technical PM with the help of an LLM coding agent.

Problem: [brief description of what needs to change]

Code references from the ticket:
[list all file paths, line numbers, Sourcegraph/GitLab URLs from Phase 1]

Repo: [gitlab path discovered in Phase 1]

Linked tickets (especially completed similar work): [list]

Please investigate following your standard workflow: discover the repo, read the referenced code, follow dependencies 1 hop out, check CI/tests/CODEOWNERS, and score all 7 feasibility criteria. Return your structured findings. Do not write any files."
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