Phase Plan

Phase Plan

You are expanding one authored phase into its runtime phase sheet, immediately before executing it. The authored plan (plan.toml) says what the phase must achieve; this skill works out how, in the disposable state tree.

Plan each phase in detail just prior to execution — not all phases up front.

Inputs:

• the phase's plan.toml entry — its objective, exit_criteria (EX-), and verification (VT-/VA-/VH-)
• design.md (canonical design reference) and slice-nnn.md (scope)
• the materialised runtime phase sheet state/.../phases/phase-NN.{toml,md}

Process

1. Confirm the phase's entrance_criteria (EN-) are met before planning the detail. If they are not, resolve that first (an earlier phase, a design gap).
2. Re-read design.md and the phase's plan.toml entry — objective, exit criteria, verification expectations.
3. Run /retrieve-memory against the concrete files and subsystems you expect to touch, so scope-bound gotchas and patterns surface before you commit to a task breakdown.
4. Check the research advisory — doctrine slice research <id>. Where it reports drift, refresh only the affected thread sections, then re-stamp the baseline; plan the phase against the refreshed artefact, not the stale one.
5. Fill the runtime phase sheet phase-NN.md (under .doctrine/state/, GITIGNORED and disposable) with:
   • a concrete task breakdown — small, coherent units of work
   • assumptions and constraints carried into execution
   • the verification steps that will satisfy each VT-/VA-/VH- expectation
   • the files / components each task is expected to touch
6. This is runtime state. Never write task detail or progress back into the authored plan.toml / plan.md (the storage rule) — those stay the durable record; the sheet is rm -rf-able working context.
7. If detailing the phase surfaces new design problems, unresolved tradeoffs, or policy ambiguity, stop — /consult, or return to /design if the design itself is the gap. Do not invent your way past it.
8. When the sheet tells a coherent story, flip the phase to in_progress with doctrine slice phase (see using-doctrine.md), then /execute.

Outcomes

• The phase has a concrete, executable task breakdown grounded in the design.
• Verification steps map to the phase's VT- criteria.
• Authored plan and runtime state stay on their correct sides of the storage rule.