$ca-sprint — autonomous sprint
The autonomy mode. Brainstorm a sprint spec with the user — the one interactive gate — then execute
the approved plan end-to-end without per-batch checkpoints, deciding "as the user" via SMARTS on
every non-hard-gate point. Every auto-decision lands in .codearbiter/sprint-log.md (append-only)
with a confidence flag; the low-confidence entries are exactly what the user reviews afterward.
Nothing is hidden behind autonomy.
Flow
Load and follow ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/SPRINT.md — it is the procedure. In brief:
- Sprint spec (STOP) —
brainstormingscoped to a sprint, thenwriting-plans. Explicit user approval of spec AND plan before autonomy begins. - Autonomous execution (BLOCK) —
subagent-driven-developmentruns the plan; test-first viatdd, two-pass reviewed, fresh-run verified. SMARTS decides non-hard-gate points; everything logs. - Land & summarize (BLOCK) —
commit-gate, thenfinishing-a-development-branch, which auto-selects open-PR.$ca-sprintnever merges and never discards; the merge decision is the user's.
Hard gates — security-controls, crypto/secrets/auth, irreversible ops, /override, an
unresolvable [CONFIRM-NN], merge-to-default — are NEVER auto-decided. They halt and surface.
Arguments
"goal"— seed for the sprint-spec brainstorm.--farm— cost-arbitrage backend: cheap workers implement under the same gates; Claude still authors spec, failing tests, plan, and reviews everything. Pre-flightsFARM_API_KEY.
Routes to
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/SPRINT.md (mode body), which routes through brainstorming,
writing-plans, subagent-driven-development, commit-gate, finishing-a-development-branch.
When NOT to use
- A single feature with human checkpoints →
$ca-feature. - Work whose spec cannot be made concrete up front — the one interactive gate is load-bearing; a thin spec makes hard-gate stops frequent instead of rare.