# Ingest Docs

> Ingest Docs Workflow

- Skill: `auto-skiller/ingest-docs` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add auto-skiller/ingest-docs`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/auto-skiller/ingest-docs/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Productivity
- Author: Auto-Skiller (https://skillmd.com/u/auto-skiller)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/auto-skiller/ingest-docs

---

# Ingest Docs Workflow

Scan a repo for mixed planning documents (ADR, PRD, SPEC, DOC), synthesize them into a consolidated context, and bootstrap or merge into `.planning/`.

- `[path]` — optional target directory to scan (defaults to repo root)
- `--mode new|merge` — override auto-detect (defaults: `new` if `.planning/` absent, `merge` if present)
- `--manifest <file>` — YAML file listing `{path, type, precedence?}` per doc; overrides heuristic classification
- `--resolve auto|interactive` — conflict resolution (v1: only `auto` is supported; `interactive` is reserved)

---

<step name="banner">

Display the stage banner:

```
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 GSD ► INGEST DOCS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
```

</step>

<step name="parse_arguments">

Parse `$ARGUMENTS`:

- First positional token (if not a flag) → `SCAN_PATH` (default: `.`)
- `--mode new|merge` → `MODE` (default: auto-detect)
- `--manifest <file>` → `MANIFEST_PATH` (optional)
- `--resolve auto|interactive` → `RESOLVE_MODE` (default: `auto`; reject `interactive` in v1 with message "interactive resolution is planned for a future release")

**Validate paths:**

```bash
case "{SCAN_PATH}" in *..*) echo "SECURITY_ERROR: path contains traversal sequence"; exit 1 ;; esac
test -d "{SCAN_PATH}" || echo "PATH_NOT_FOUND"
if [ -n "{MANIFEST_PATH}" ]; then
  case "{MANIFEST_PATH}" in *..*) echo "SECURITY_ERROR: manifest path contains traversal"; exit 1 ;; esac
  test -f "{MANIFEST_PATH}" || echo "MANIFEST_NOT_FOUND"
fi
```

**Containment (required):** After resolving `SCAN_PATH` and `MANIFEST_PATH` relative to the repo root, canonicalize each with `realpath` (or platform equivalent) and assert the result is under `realpath("$REPO_ROOT")`. Reject absolute paths outside the repo (e.g. `/tmp`, `C:\Windows`) even when they do not contain `..`.

If `PATH_NOT_FOUND` or `MANIFEST_NOT_FOUND`: display error and exit.

</step>

<step name="init_and_mode_detect">

Run the init query:

```bash
INIT=$(gsd-sdk query init.ingest-docs)
```

Parse `project_exists`, `planning_exists`, `has_git`, `project_path` from INIT.

**Auto-detect MODE** if not set:
- `planning_exists: true` → `MODE=merge`
- `planning_exists: false` → `MODE=new`

If user passed `--mode new` but `.planning/` already exists: display warning and require explicit confirm via `AskUserQuestion` (approve-revise-abort from `references/gate-prompts.md`) before overwriting.

If `has_git: false` and `MODE=new`: initialize git:
```bash
git init
```

**Detect runtime** using the same pattern as `new-project.md`:
- execution_context path `/.codex/` → `RUNTIME=codex`
- `/.gemini/` → `RUNTIME=gemini`
- `/.opencode/` or `/.config/opencode/` → `RUNTIME=opencode`
- else → `RUNTIME=claude`

Fall back to env vars (`CODEX_HOME`, `GEMINI_CONFIG_DIR`, `OPENCODE_CONFIG_DIR`) if execution_context is unavailable.

</step>

<step name="discover_docs">

Build the doc list from three sources, in order:

**1. Manifest (if provided)** — authoritative:

Read `MANIFEST_PATH`. Expected YAML shape:

```yaml
docs:
  - path: docs/adr/0001-db.md
    type: ADR
    precedence: 0   # optional, lower = higher precedence
  - path: docs/prd/auth.md
    type: PRD
```

Each entry provides `path` (required, relative to repo root) + `type` (required, one of ADR|PRD|SPEC|DOC) + `precedence` (optional integer).

**2. Directory conventions** (skipped when manifest is provided):

```bash
# ADRs
find {SCAN_PATH} -type f \( -path '*/adr/*' -o -path '*/adrs/*' -o -name 'ADR-*.md' -o -regex '.*/[0-9]\{4\}-.*\.md' \) 2>/dev/null

# PRDs
find {SCAN_PATH} -type f \( -path '*/prd/*' -o -path '*/prds/*' -o -name 'PRD-*.md' \) 2>/dev/null

# SPECs / RFCs
find {SCAN_PATH} -type f \( -path '*/spec/*' -o -path '*/specs/*' -o -path '*/rfc/*' -o -path '*/rfcs/*' -o -name 'SPEC-*.md' -o -name 'RFC-*.md' \) 2>/dev/null

# Generic docs (fall-through candidates)
find {SCAN_PATH} -type f -path '*/docs/*' -name '*.md' 2>/dev/null
```

De-duplicate the union (a file matched by multiple patterns is one doc).

**3. Content heuristics** (run during classification, not here) — the classifier handles frontmatter `type:` and H1 inspection for docs that didn't match a convention.

**Cap:** hard limit of 50 docs per invocation (documented v1 constraint). If the discovered set exceeds 50:

```
GSD > Discovered {N} docs, which exceeds the v1 cap of 50.
      Use --manifest to narrow the set to ≤ 50 files, or run
      /gsd-ingest-docs again with a narrower <path>.
```

Exit without proceeding.

**Display discovered set** and request approval (see `references/gate-prompts.md` — `yes-no-pick` pattern works; or `approve-revise-abort`):

```
Discovered {N} documents:
  {N} ADR | {N} PRD | {N} SPEC | {N} DOC | {N} unclassified

  docs/adr/0001-architecture.md       [ADR]    (from manifest|directory|heuristic)
  docs/adr/0002-database.md           [ADR]    (directory)
  docs/prd/auth.md                    [PRD]    (manifest)
  ...
```

**Text mode:** apply the same `--text`/`text_mode` rule as other workflows — replace `AskUserQuestion` with a numbered list.

Use `AskUserQuestion` (approve-revise-abort):
- question: "Proceed with classification of these {N} documents?"
- header: "Approve?"
- options: Approve | Revise | Abort

On Abort: exit cleanly with "Ingest cancelled."
On Revise: exit with guidance to re-run with `--manifest` or a narrower path.

</step>

<step name="classify_parallel">

Create staging directory:

```bash
mkdir -p .planning/intel/classifications/
```

For each discovered doc, spawn `gsd-doc-classifier` in parallel. In Claude Code, issue all Task calls in a single message with multiple tool uses so the harness runs them concurrently. For Copilot / sequential runtimes, fall back to sequential dispatch.

Per-spawn prompt fields:
- `FILEPATH` — absolute path to the doc
- `OUTPUT_DIR` — `.planning/intel/classifications/`
- `MANIFEST_TYPE` — the type from the manifest if present, else omit
- `MANIFEST_PRECEDENCE` — the precedence integer from the manifest if present, else omit
- `<required_reading>` — `agents/gsd-doc-classifier.md` (the agent definition itself)

Collect the one-line confirmations from each classifier. If any classifier errors out, surface the error and abort without touching `.planning/` further.

</step>

<step name="synthesize">

Spawn `gsd-doc-synthesizer` once:

```
Task({
  subagent_type: "gsd-doc-synthesizer",
  prompt: "
    CLASSIFICATIONS_DIR: .planning/intel/classifications/
    INTEL_DIR: .planning/intel/
    CONFLICTS_PATH: .planning/INGEST-CONFLICTS.md
    MODE: {MODE}
    EXISTING_CONTEXT: {paths to existing .planning files if MODE=merge, else empty}
    PRECEDENCE: {array from manifest defaults or default ['ADR','SPEC','PRD','DOC']}

    <required_reading>
    - agents/gsd-doc-synthesizer.md
    - get-shit-done/references/doc-conflict-engine.md
    </required_reading>
  "
})
```

The synthesizer writes:
- `.planning/intel/decisions.md`, `.planning/intel/requirements.md`, `.planning/intel/constraints.md`, `.planning/intel/context.md`
- `.planning/intel/SYNTHESIS.md`
- `.planning/INGEST-CONFLICTS.md`

</step>

<step name="conflict_gate">

Read `.planning/INGEST-CONFLICTS.md`. Count entries in each bucket (the synthesizer always writes the three-bucket header; parse the `### BLOCKERS ({N})`, `### WARNINGS ({N})`, `### INFO ({N})` lines).

Apply the safety semantics from `references/doc-conflict-engine.md`. Operation noun: `ingest`.

**If BLOCKERS > 0:**

Render the report to the user, then display:

```
GSD > BLOCKED: {N} blockers must be resolved before ingest can proceed.
```

Exit WITHOUT writing PROJECT.md, REQUIREMENTS.md, ROADMAP.md, or STATE.md. The staging intel files remain for inspection. The safety gate holds — no destination files are written when blockers exist.

**If WARNINGS > 0 and BLOCKERS = 0:**

Render the report, then ask via AskUserQuestion (approve-revise-abort):
- question: "Review the competing variants above. Resolve manually and proceed, or abort?"
- header: "Approve?"
- options: Approve | Abort

On Abort: exit cleanly with "Ingest cancelled. Staged intel preserved at `.planning/intel/`."

**If BLOCKERS = 0 and WARNINGS = 0:**

Proceed to routing silently, or optionally display `GSD > No conflicts. Auto-resolved: {N}.`

</step>

<step name="route_new_mode">

**Applies only when MODE=new.**

Audit PROJECT.md field requirements that `gsd-roadmapper` expects. For fields derivable from `.planning/intel/SYNTHESIS.md` (project scope, goals/non-goals, constraints, locked decisions), synthesize from the intel. For fields NOT derivable (project name, developer-facing success metric, target runtime), prompt via `AskUserQuestion` one at a time — minimal question set, no interrogation.

Delegate to `gsd-roadmapper`:

```
Task({
  subagent_type: "gsd-roadmapper",
  prompt: "
    Mode: new-project-from-ingest
    Intel: .planning/intel/SYNTHESIS.md (entry point)
    Per-type intel: .planning/intel/{decisions,requirements,constraints,context}.md
    User-supplied fields: {collected in previous step}

    Produce:
    - .planning/PROJECT.md
    - .planning/REQUIREMENTS.md
    - .planning/ROADMAP.md
    - .planning/STATE.md

    Treat ADR-locked decisions as locked in PROJECT.md <decisions> blocks.
  "
})
```

</step>

<step name="route_merge_mode">

**Applies only when MODE=merge.**

Load existing `.planning/ROADMAP.md`, `.planning/PROJECT.md`, `.planning/REQUIREMENTS.md`, all `CONTEXT.md` files under `.planning/phases/`.

The synthesizer has already hard-blocked on any LOCKED-in-ingest vs LOCKED-in-existing contradiction; if we reach this step, no such blockers remain.

Plan the merge:
- **New requirements** from synthesized `.planning/intel/requirements.md` that do not overlap existing REQUIREMENTS.md entries → append to REQUIREMENTS.md
- **New decisions** from synthesized `.planning/intel/decisions.md` that do not overlap existing CONTEXT.md `<decisions>` blocks → write to a new phase's CONTEXT.md or append to the next milestone's requirements
- **New scope** → derive phase additions following the `new-milestone.md` pattern; append phases to `.planning/ROADMAP.md`

Preview the merge diff to the user and gate via approve-revise-abort before writing.

</step>

<step name="finalize">

Commit the ingest results:

```bash
gsd-sdk query commit "docs: ingest {N} docs from {SCAN_PATH} (#2387)" \
  .planning/PROJECT.md \
  .planning/REQUIREMENTS.md \
  .planning/ROADMAP.md \
  .planning/STATE.md \
  .planning/intel/ \
  .planning/INGEST-CONFLICTS.md
```

(For merge mode, substitute the actual set of modified files.)

Display completion:

```
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 GSD ► INGEST DOCS COMPLETE
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
```

Show:
- Mode ran (new or merge)
- Docs ingested (count + type breakdown)
- Decisions locked, requirements created, constraints captured
- Conflict report path (`.planning/INGEST-CONFLICTS.md`)
- Next step: `/gsd-plan-phase 1` (new mode) or `/gsd-plan-phase N` (merge, pointing at the first newly-added phase)

</step>

---

## Anti-Patterns

Do NOT:
- Violate the shared conflict-engine contract in `references/doc-conflict-engine.md` (no markdown tables, no new severity labels, no bypass of the BLOCKER gate)
- Write PROJECT.md, REQUIREMENTS.md, ROADMAP.md, or STATE.md when BLOCKERs exist in the conflict report
- Skip the 50-doc cap — larger sets must use `--manifest` to narrow the scope
- Auto-resolve LOCKED-vs-LOCKED ADR contradictions — those are BLOCKERs in both modes
- Merge competing PRD acceptance variants into a combined criterion — preserve all variants for user resolution
- Bypass the discovery approval gate — users must see the classified doc list before classifiers spawn
- Skip path validation on `SCAN_PATH` or `MANIFEST_PATH`
- Implement `--resolve interactive` in this v1 — the flag is reserved; reject with a future-release message