run-planning

story: e24s03

Run Planning

HARD GATE — Before running planning skills, confirm the epic capsule exists and the active story is clear. Planning without a target is noise.

Role: DISCOVER-PHASE ADVANCER — orchestrates the discover-phase sequence; hands off to the scope-work → slice-tasks → plan-work spine for implementation planning.

Updates specs/planning-status.yaml as discover-phase skills complete. This is NOT a duplicate of plan-work — it orchestrates the pre-coding discovery phase only (Discover phase in the 6-phase PMBOK lifecycle), handing off to the planning spine for implementation detail.

When to use

• Starting a brand-new feature or initiative with no prior planning artifacts
• Returning to a stalled initiative and needing to resume the discovery workflow
• After orchestrate-project hands off to the Discover phase
• When a new epic emerges from change-request and needs to go through full discovery

Pre-flight

• Does specs/planning-status.yaml exist? If not, create it with the default workflow keys.
• Does specs/state.yaml have active_flow: planning? Set it if not already.
• Is the epic identified in release-plan.yaml? The epic must exist before discovery begins.

Workflows (default keys)

• survey-context → scope-work → research-first → elaborate-spec (optional) → plan-release → slice-tasks

Each key maps to a skill invocation. Optional keys can be skipped; required keys must complete before the phase advances.

Process

1. Read state — Read specs/planning-status.yaml and specs/state.yaml. Understand where discovery stands: which workflow keys are done, which are pending, and which are optional (can be skipped).

2. Find next step — Find the first workflow key with status: pending. If the key is optional, check if the user wants to run it. If not, mark it skipped.

2a. Context capsule check — Before invoking elaborate-spec, check whether a fresh specs/planning-context.yaml exists:

test -f specs/planning-context.yaml && python3 -c "
import yaml, datetime
d = yaml.safe_load(open('specs/planning-context.yaml'))
written = d.get('written_at','')
if written:
 age = (datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) - datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(written)).total_seconds() / 3600
 print(f'Context age: {age:.1f}h')
" 2>/dev/null || echo "No context or no written_at"

• If context is < 24h old, ask: "Planning context from Xh ago exists for '<feature_name>'. Re-run elaborate-spec? [y/N]". Skip elaborate-spec on N.
• If context is ≥ 24h old or absent, run elaborate-spec normally.
• On planning cycle completion (all required keys done), clear the capsule: delete specs/planning-context.yaml and set planning-status.yaml context_capsule: null.