# Milestone Rush > Autonomously completes a confirmed milestone by reconciling existing work, parallelizing independent implementation, converging and merging pull requests, and closing the verified milestone. Use when the user runs /milestone-rush for an exact milestone or selects it after /roadmap-review. - Skill: `frostney/milestone-rush` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 5 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add frostney/milestone-rush` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/frostney/milestone-rush/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Product & Planning - License: Unlicense OR MIT - Author: frostney (https://skillmd.com/u/frostney) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/frostney/milestone-rush --- # Milestone rush Finish the named milestone from its actual current state. The run owns execution, not release publication. ## Authority and gates - Require an exact repository and milestone. An explicit invocation authorizes scoped issue comments and replacement issues, branches and worktrees, implementation, validation, commits, plain pushes, pull requests, review remediation, squash merges, branch cleanup, and closing that milestone. - Never create a release. After completion, offer `/run-retro` and wait for explicit approval before invoking it. - Accept either a confirmed `/roadmap-review` handoff or direct invocation. For direct invocation, verify current scope, direction, readiness, dependencies, and measures of success before executing. Stop for material replanning rather than silently changing the milestone. - Treat a confirmed roadmap item as the mini-spec for `/implement-idea automatic` only when it states the outcome, scope and non-goals, and testable measures of success. - Respect project instructions, Definitions of Ready and Done, branch protection, review policy, and the remote default branch. Never amend, bypass a gate, or overwrite unrelated work. Ordinary branches remain merge-only; only `git-workflow` may apply its guarded native-stack rewrite exception. - Before planning or spawning, read and validate repository-root `ORCHESTRATION.md` under [references/orchestration.md](references/orchestration.md), then initialize the ignored event ledger with the bundled one-shot command under [references/event-ledger.md](references/event-ledger.md). ## Reconcile and plan 1. Pull fresh milestone, issue, pull-request, review, check, default-branch, branch, worktree, and relevant local working-tree state. Read current project direction, completion contracts, and the validated orchestration policy or reported provider-neutral fallback. 2. Run every repository-declared lane-admission preflight before adopting or creating a worktree. This includes path/toolchain/resource constraints when the repository declares them. Relocate or reject an unsafe worktree before implementation or a complete local gate; never learn a known environmental limit by burning the full suite. 3. Classify every milestone item and related local change as delivered, open PR, active implementation, ready, blocked, or invalid. Reuse valid work instead of restarting it. 4. Verify closed items against source and merge evidence. When required work was closed without delivery, comment with the evidence, create a linked replacement through `/create-issue automatic`, add it to the milestone, and implement the replacement. Stop when the closure records a material rejected or deferred product decision. 5. Inspect the current delivery surface and include the provider-neutral CI integration recommendation required by the orchestration reference. This is a plan artifact, not authority to change workflows, labels, rulesets, controllers, credentials, or provider configuration. Make a required missing capability an explicit repository-owned prerequisite; otherwise document the safe current-CI fallback and its cost. 6. Build a dependency and likely-conflict graph. A native stack may represent a true dependency chain or a confirmed logical decomposition of one large issue, provided each layer is independently reviewable. Prioritize the longest pole and early risk reduction, then dispatch every independent ready node to isolated subagents and worktrees up to current platform capacity. Do not impose a separate issue, wave, review-round, or retry limit. 7. Maintain the outer workflow's resumable state in the ignored `.agent/HANDOFF.md` after each issue or PR transition. Record the milestone identity, graph, active worktrees, issue-to-PR state, blockers, observed validation, and the stable decision registry. Never stage or commit the checkpoint; reconcile it with live state when resuming. ## Execute and integrate 1. Keep the coordinator thin: it owns confirmed decisions and provenance, graph state, worker admission and replacement, delivery-state promotion, integration, merge, and milestone closure. Detailed investigation, implementation, remediation, and validation belong to bounded workers. 2. Give each worker one context-isolated task packet and its dependencies. Use `/implement-issue automatic` for an issue or `/implement-idea automatic` for a confirmed unfiled roadmap item. In either workflow, replace its required pre-PR review with `/code-review subagents fix-all`; this is a milestone-rush default, not a change to standalone implementation workflows. Automatic mode selects the evidence-backed recommendation but never resolves material ambiguity, risk, or vision conflict on the user's behalf. 3. Adopt an existing PR when it satisfies the issue and project gates. Adopt relevant local state only when its ownership and scope are clear; preserve ambiguous, dirty, pre-existing, or unrelated state and report it. 4. Let the implementation workflow validate, review, and hand off through `/create-pr`. As each ordinary PR becomes ready, run `/address-pr-feedback automatic-merge`. For a native stack, invoke `/address-stack-feedback ` once for the stack identity. Accept only its exact-topology, exact-head whole-stack `ready` result; then recheck that same snapshot and atomically merge the complete ready stack through `git-workflow`. Never merge a prefix beneath a required top fix layer. 5. Keep remediation validation focused on the changed behavior. Run the repository's complete local gate once only after implementation and bounded review fixes converge on the intended head, unless a new material source change invalidates it. Do not repeatedly use a complete suite as the diagnostic loop. 6. Treat heavyweight full CI as terminal promotion evidence, never as a remote debugger. Dispatch it only after the current base, required PR checks, and every active review tool have converged on the candidate head. Cancel superseded runs when the CI service supports safe cancellation; record otherwise unavoidable waste. A later head, base, topology, or review change invalidates the proof. 7. Integrate continuously rather than waiting for a batch. After every squash merge, refresh milestone and default-branch state; merge the updated remote default into every affected remaining branch and rerun its applicable gates. Review and CI evidence is valid only for the current PR head. 8. Add newly discovered work to the milestone only when evidence shows it is required by an existing requirement, dependency, regression, or Definition of Done. Keep tightly coupled fixes in the current PR; create an issue for independently trackable required work. Record desirable follow-ups without expanding the milestone. 9. Re-pull scope after every merge. Absorb externally added issues only when they clearly fit the confirmed plan; stop for material scope expansion. 10. When a milestone merge causes an integrated regression, create and implement the required repair. Treat unrelated or materially ambiguous failures as blockers. Manage implementation and review workers within the host's shared capacity. Keep implementation nodes running while useful work remains, and queue review review-axis lanes until slots free up; temporary slot exhaustion is not sub-agent unavailability. If review sub-agents are unsupported, remain unavailable after bounded retry, or return incomplete evidence, the implementation worker completes those lanes directly and records the fallback for the milestone report. Normalize every material lifecycle, decision, wait, gate, usage, retry, rework, and integration transition, then pass it to the event-ledger `ingest` command. Host adapters own translation from native events; never add provider transcript parsers to this skill. Inner delivery and review loops launch the bundled deterministic foreground waits; the outer milestone loop passively awaits worker or command completion and reconciles its checkpoint after each returned transition. Notify the coordinator only on changed, terminal, or exceptional state. Unsupported passive waiting required by repository policy blocks spawning; never substitute model heartbeats. ## Blockers and completion - Quarantine a blocked node and its dependents, then continue every independent runnable node. Pause only when no further safe progress remains. Never close a milestone with blocked or unverified work. - Retry transient review, CI, issue, and pull-request states through event-driven waits under the host's platform limits. Use an exact safe `retry_at` when available. A rate limit or missing verdict is pending, not green. - Before closure, re-fetch milestone, issue, pull-request, review, and CI state and verify that every in-scope item is delivered and closed with evidence; no milestone PR, required check, review thread, or active review-tool pass remains pending; and the synced default branch passes the applicable full project gate. A failure resumes execution. - Run the event-ledger `validate` and `summarize` commands for the current `runId` before closure. Missing required event classes, unclosed spans, ambiguous counter streams, silent null usage/resource fields, or absent command/CI identities block closure until corrected or explicitly marked unavailable under the schema. - Close the milestone only after that integrated gate passes. Remove only clean, merged worktrees created by this run; preserve and report every other worktree. ## Report Return one audit-style summary covering: - initial and final scope, including scope drift; - issue, worker/worktree, PR, and squash-merge mapping; - each PR's review-axis-to-lane map, completed or incomplete lanes, and every single-agent fallback with its reason; - reused local or PR state; - orchestration policy status, decision IDs and conflicts, CI integration recommendation, prerequisites or fallback cost, worker context modes, and any monitoring fallback; - event-ledger path and completeness, intervention checkpoints, and unavailable telemetry fields; - validation and reviewer evidence for final PR heads and integrated default; - required additions, deferred follow-ups, blockers, and remaining work; - cleanup or preserved state and milestone closure status. If the milestone closed, ask whether to run `/run-retro`. Do not invoke it without explicit approval.