Pm Decision Router

PM Decision Router

Purpose

Classify incoming evidence before starting a heavier workflow so the kit can decide what to do inside its own system: update a task, create a task, run discovery, challenge scope, prioritize, create a document, log a decision, archive-only, or ask the user for missing intent.

The router is a preflight, not a replacement for downstream workflows. After routing, the selected workflow still owns durable writes and validation.

Router Schema

Every routing pass returns exactly these fields:

{
  "intent": "task_update | new_task | discovery | scope_challenge | prioritize | create_doc | decision_log | archive_only | ask_user",
  "routing_target": ".agent/workflows/<workflow>.md",
  "confidence": 0.0,
  "evidence": [],
  "candidate_updates": [],
  "blocking_questions": []
}

Use system/scripts/pm_decision_router.py --text "<input>" for deterministic classification when input text is available. For screenshots or binary files, extract visible text first, then route the text.

Routing Rules

• task_update: existing task ID, explicit progress, blocker, owner, due-date, or status signal. Route to /track and update the existing task before creating anything new.
• new_task: actionable request without an existing task match. Route to /track and apply the task-manager Priority Gate before acceptance.
• discovery: problem-space, assumptions, user research, opportunity, experiment, or validation work. Route to /discover.
• scope_challenge: scope creep, PO-level filler, day-to-day engineering support, release ownership, legacy integration/UI work, or unclear PM ownership. Route to /track for Priority Gate handling, but do not create an active task until the user confirms.
• prioritize: ranking, scoring, cut-line, RICE, ICE, Kano, MoSCoW, or capacity allocation. Route to /prioritize.
• create_doc: PRD, spec, one-pager, six-pager, brief, or stakeholder-ready document request. Route to /create.
• decision_log: explicit decision, go/no-go, tradeoff, alignment, or option selection. Route through /track to 5. Trackers/DECISION_LOG.md.
• archive_only: FYI, reference-only, no-action note, or evidence with no current work signal. Route to /archive or the relevant local evidence archive.
• ask_user: insufficient signal. Return concrete blocking questions instead of guessing.

Quality Bar

For task_update, new_task, discovery, prioritize, create_doc, and decision_log, carry forward:

• outcome metric
• owner
• due date or gate date
• scope boundary
• evidence strength
• dependency
• next decision gate

If these are missing for committed work, list them in blocking_questions or candidate updates. Do not silently convert ambiguous work into active task state.

Obsidian MCP

Obsidian is optional read/search context only. Use system/scripts/obsidian_mcp_health.py to check whether a local Obsidian MCP endpoint is configured.

• Allowed v1 behavior: search, read, list, get document map, get active file path, list tags, open a file in Obsidian.
• Disallowed v1 behavior: write, append, patch, delete, move, execute arbitrary Obsidian commands, or use Obsidian as the task source of truth.
• If Obsidian MCP is unavailable, fall back to repo-local rg searches over the canonical kit files.