grace-plan

<approved_plan_immutability>

• If plan.xml already exists with status approved, stop before writing.
• Do not refresh BaselineAssertions, TargetAssertions, DurableScope, ObservedWriteScope, or tasks in place.
• Create a new C-* bundle and mark the old bundle superseded with an explicit replacement reference. </approved_plan_immutability>

<must_do> Produce plan.xml from references/change-plan-template.xml as draft unless the user explicitly approves the completed plan. Require a matching C-* wrapper, meaningful intent, non-empty machine-checkable baseline and target assertions, explicit durable and observed scopes, and unique acyclic T-NNN tasks. A scope with no writes must use an explicit <None /> marker; prose such as "none" is invalid. Every task has one Title, one DependsOn element listing zero or more predecessors as canonical comma-separated T-NNN values (for example <DependsOn>T-001, T-002</DependsOn>), non-empty acceptance criteria, and non-empty verification commands. Dependencies form a directed acyclic graph: list only true predecessors and never linearize independent tasks into a chain to express ordering. Surface stale-state and coexistence warnings, and reject unsupported scope glob syntax instead of guessing. </must_do>

<command_phase_rules>

• current is an active-baseline preflight and is valid only before observed writes begin.
• baseline is the selected pre-edit gate, target is selected post-edit evidence, and final is the outer apply/archive gate owned by grace-execute.
• MustPassCommand contains leaf project evidence such as tests, typecheck, build, format, or package checks. Never place grace lint, grace status, or another GRACE lifecycle command inside it.
• Never put --assertions current in TargetAssertions or in task verification that runs after writes. Use selected target/final lint externally instead.
• A MustPassCommand must complete within its declared budgetSeconds (absent, the global --command-timeout applies) on the reference host; declare the budget you have measured rather than inheriting a default that will kill the command mid-gate.
• A whole-suite command whose runtime is dominated by substrate startup — containers, databases, browsers, emulators — belongs in an acceptance tier, not in the gate; never declare both a whole-suite command and the file-level commands it already re-runs. </command_phase_rules>

<hard_rules> Do not implement code, silently approve a plan, overwrite an approved plan, or mutate current graph/verification artifacts while planning. Semantic anchors are canonical XML tags, never attributes. </hard_rules>