# Plan Review Convergence

> <purpose>

- Skill: `auto-skiller/plan-review-convergence` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add auto-skiller/plan-review-convergence`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/auto-skiller/plan-review-convergence/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: Auto-Skiller (https://skillmd.com/u/auto-skiller)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/auto-skiller/plan-review-convergence

---

<purpose>
Cross-AI plan convergence loop — automates the manual chain:
gsd-plan-phase N → gsd-review N --codex → gsd-plan-phase N --reviews → gsd-review N --codex → ...
Each step runs inside an isolated Agent that calls the corresponding Skill.
Orchestrator only does: init, loop control, HIGH count check, stall detection, escalation.
</purpose>

<required_reading>
Read all files referenced by the invoking prompt's execution_context before starting.

@$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/references/revision-loop.md
@$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/references/gates.md
@$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/references/agent-contracts.md
</required_reading>

<process>

## 1. Parse and Normalize Arguments

Extract from $ARGUMENTS: phase number, reviewer flags (`--codex`, `--gemini`, `--claude`, `--opencode`, `--all`), `--max-cycles N`, `--text`, `--ws`.

```bash
PHASE=$(echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -oE '[0-9]+\.?[0-9]*' | head -1)

REVIEWER_FLAGS=""
echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -q '\-\-codex' && REVIEWER_FLAGS="$REVIEWER_FLAGS --codex"
echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -q '\-\-gemini' && REVIEWER_FLAGS="$REVIEWER_FLAGS --gemini"
echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -q '\-\-claude' && REVIEWER_FLAGS="$REVIEWER_FLAGS --claude"
echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -q '\-\-opencode' && REVIEWER_FLAGS="$REVIEWER_FLAGS --opencode"
echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -q '\-\-all' && REVIEWER_FLAGS="$REVIEWER_FLAGS --all"
if [ -z "$REVIEWER_FLAGS" ]; then REVIEWER_FLAGS="--codex"; fi

MAX_CYCLES=$(echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -oE '\-\-max-cycles\s+[0-9]+' | awk '{print $2}')
if [ -z "$MAX_CYCLES" ]; then MAX_CYCLES=3; fi

GSD_WS=""
echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -qE '\-\-ws\s+\S+' && GSD_WS=$(echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -oE '\-\-ws\s+\S+')
```

## 2. Initialize

```bash
INIT=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" init plan-phase "$PHASE")
if [[ "$INIT" == @file:* ]]; then INIT=$(cat "${INIT#@file:}"); fi
```

Parse JSON for: `phase_dir`, `phase_number`, `padded_phase`, `phase_name`, `has_plans`, `plan_count`, `commit_docs`, `text_mode`, `response_language`.

**If `response_language` is set:** All user-facing output should be in `{response_language}`.

Set `TEXT_MODE=true` if `--text` is present in $ARGUMENTS OR `text_mode` from init JSON is `true`. When `TEXT_MODE` is active, replace every `AskUserQuestion` call with a plain-text numbered list and ask the user to type their choice number.

## 3. Validate Phase + Pre-flight Gate

```bash
PHASE_INFO=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" roadmap get-phase "${PHASE}")
```

**If `found` is false:** Error with available phases. Exit.

Display startup banner:

```text
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 GSD ► PLAN CONVERGENCE — Phase {phase_number}
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

 Reviewers: {REVIEWER_FLAGS}
 Max cycles: {MAX_CYCLES}
```

## 4. Initial Planning (if no plans exist)

**If `has_plans` is true:** Skip to step 5. Display: `Plans found: {plan_count} PLAN.md files — skipping initial planning.`

**If `has_plans` is false:**

Display: `◆ No plans found — spawning initial planning agent...`

```text
Agent(
  description="Initial planning Phase {PHASE}",
  prompt="Run /gsd-plan-phase for Phase {PHASE}.

Execute: Skill(skill='gsd-plan-phase', args='{PHASE} {GSD_WS}')

Complete the full planning workflow. Do NOT return until planning is complete and PLAN.md files are committed.",
  mode="auto"
)
```

After agent returns, verify plans were created:
```bash
PLAN_COUNT=$(ls ${phase_dir}/${padded_phase}-*-PLAN.md 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
```

If PLAN_COUNT == 0: Error — initial planning failed. Exit.

Display: `Initial planning complete: ${PLAN_COUNT} PLAN.md files created.`

## 5. Convergence Loop

Initialize loop variables:

```text
cycle = 0
prev_high_count = Infinity
```

### 5a. Review (Spawn Agent)

Increment `cycle`.

Display: `◆ Cycle {cycle}/{MAX_CYCLES} — spawning review agent...`

```text
Agent(
  description="Cross-AI review Phase {PHASE} cycle {cycle}",
  prompt="Run /gsd-review for Phase {PHASE}.

Execute: Skill(skill='gsd-review', args='--phase {PHASE} {REVIEWER_FLAGS} {GSD_WS}')

Complete the full review workflow. Do NOT return until REVIEWS.md is committed.",
  mode="auto"
)
```

After agent returns, verify REVIEWS.md exists:
```bash
REVIEWS_FILE=$(ls ${phase_dir}/${padded_phase}-REVIEWS.md 2>/dev/null)
```

If REVIEWS_FILE is empty: Error — review agent did not produce REVIEWS.md. Exit.

### 5b. Check for HIGH Concerns

```bash
HIGH_COUNT=$(grep -c '\*\*HIGH' "${REVIEWS_FILE}" 2>/dev/null || true)
HIGH_COUNT=${HIGH_COUNT:-0}
HIGH_LINES=$(grep -B0 -A1 '\*\*HIGH' "${REVIEWS_FILE}" 2>/dev/null)
```

**If HIGH_COUNT == 0 (converged):**

```bash
node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" state planned-phase --phase "${PHASE}" --name "${phase_name}" --plans "${PLAN_COUNT}"
```

Display:
```text
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 GSD ► CONVERGENCE COMPLETE ✓
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

 Phase {phase_number} converged in {cycle} cycle(s).
 No HIGH concerns remaining.

 REVIEWS.md: {REVIEWS_FILE}
 Next: /gsd-execute-phase {PHASE}
```

Exit — convergence achieved.

**If HIGH_COUNT > 0:** Continue to 5c.

### 5c. Stall Detection + Escalation Check

Display: `◆ Cycle {cycle}/{MAX_CYCLES} — {HIGH_COUNT} HIGH concerns found`

**Stall detection:** If `HIGH_COUNT >= prev_high_count`:
```text
⚠ Convergence stalled — HIGH concern count not decreasing
  ({HIGH_COUNT} HIGH concerns, previous cycle had {prev_high_count})
```

**Max cycles check:** If `cycle >= MAX_CYCLES`:

If `TEXT_MODE` is true, present as plain-text numbered list:
```text
Plan convergence did not complete after {MAX_CYCLES} cycles.
{HIGH_COUNT} HIGH concerns remain:

{HIGH_LINES}

How would you like to proceed?

1. Proceed anyway — Accept plans with remaining HIGH concerns and move to execution
2. Manual review — Stop here, review REVIEWS.md and address concerns manually

Enter number:
```

Otherwise use AskUserQuestion:
```js
AskUserQuestion([
  {
    question: "Plan convergence did not complete after {MAX_CYCLES} cycles. {HIGH_COUNT} HIGH concerns remain:\n\n{HIGH_LINES}\n\nHow would you like to proceed?",
    header: "Convergence",
    multiSelect: false,
    options: [
      { label: "Proceed anyway", description: "Accept plans with remaining HIGH concerns and move to execution" },
      { label: "Manual review", description: "Stop here — review REVIEWS.md and address concerns manually" }
    ]
  }
])
```

If "Proceed anyway": Display final status and exit.
If "Manual review":
```text
Review the concerns in: {REVIEWS_FILE}

To replan manually:  /gsd-plan-phase {PHASE} --reviews
To restart loop:     /gsd-plan-review-convergence {PHASE} {REVIEWER_FLAGS}
```
Exit workflow.

### 5d. Replan (Spawn Agent)

**If under max cycles:**

Update `prev_high_count = HIGH_COUNT`.

Display: `◆ Spawning replan agent with review feedback...`

```text
Agent(
  description="Replan Phase {PHASE} with review feedback cycle {cycle}",
  prompt="Run /gsd-plan-phase with --reviews for Phase {PHASE}.

Execute: Skill(skill='gsd-plan-phase', args='{PHASE} --reviews --skip-research {GSD_WS}')

This will replan incorporating cross-AI review feedback from REVIEWS.md.
Do NOT return until replanning is complete and updated PLAN.md files are committed.

IMPORTANT: When gsd-plan-phase outputs '## PLANNING COMPLETE', that means replanning is done. Return at that point.",
  mode="auto"
)
```

After agent returns → go back to **step 5a** (review again).

</process>

<success_criteria>
- [ ] Initial planning via Agent → Skill("gsd-plan-phase") if no plans exist
- [ ] Review via Agent → Skill("gsd-review") — isolated, not inline
- [ ] Replan via Agent → Skill("gsd-plan-phase --reviews") — isolated, not inline
- [ ] Orchestrator only does: init, loop control, grep HIGHs, stall detection, escalation
- [ ] Each Agent fully completes its Skill before returning
- [ ] Loop exits on: no HIGH concerns (converged) OR max cycles (escalation)
- [ ] Stall detection reported when HIGH count not decreasing
- [ ] STATE.md updated on convergence completion
</success_criteria>