To Acceptance Plan

to-acceptance-plan

Create the durable behavioral and interface contract at docs/acceptance/<slug>.md, then stop at the delivery-specific handoff: a Split plan PR or a prepared Combined branch.

Contract

Claude Code's disable-model-invocation: true prevents model-initiated invocation in that host. It does not protect mecatl or any other harness. Another harness must require an explicit user request before creating a worktree or branch, committing, pushing, or opening a PR. Without that request, draft and report only; do not perform those side effects.

• Before classification or drafting, load references/WORK-CLASSIFICATION.md. Spike and Routine bypass this skill. Continue only for Bounded or Architectural work; if evidence is insufficient, escalate or stop for human-authorized Spike work rather than silently downgrading.
• Use the eventual delivery branch in exactly one validated writable worktree. Split uses a dedicated plan/<slug> branch; Combined uses the eventual combined implementation branch. Never write in the primary checkout when operating from an isolated worktree.
• Start at draft; new and materially amended plans use exact **Contract:** human-reviewed/v2 metadata plus a concise **Work classification:** Bounded|Architectural — <rationale>. Existing v1 plans remain valid until materially amended. A Bounded plan records **Decision record:** None — <substantive rationale>; an Architectural plan links the new or superseding ADR for its genuinely durable decision. Existing ADRs may still be cited. Never create an ADR merely to narrate Routine or Bounded work. Unresolved human judgments about material behavior or interfaces are unchecked items in ## Human decisions and keep the plan draft.
• Set proposed only when ## Human decisions declares None — <rationale> or every decision is checked and records — Decision: ...; record whether the path is Split or Combined.
• Default to Split. Combined is a narrow exception for a compact one-task, exactly one-### Scenario change only when it declares exact **Expected tasks:** 1 metadata, a non-placeholder **Combined rationale:** explaining why separate plan review adds no value, and gRPC/protobuf, exported Go APIs/interfaces, tool schemas, CLI/config, events/persistence, and security/authority each begin None — <rationale>; compatibility/migration may describe workflow migration. A workflow-only meta-change may instead treat repository process documents and skills as the interface reviewed in that same PR.
• Split opens a dedicated Plan / Interface PR and stops. Combined opens no plan PR: /plan-orchestrate must be explicitly invoked to add implementation on the same branch and open the sole Combined PR.
• Never implement code, merge, or use a closing issue keyword.

Authoring

1. Read AGENTS.md, docs/architecture.md, docs/acceptance/README.md, relevant ADRs, and docs/design/IMPLEMENTATION-NOTES.md when applicable.

2. Draft from references/ACCEPTANCE-PLAN-TEMPLATE.md. Keep focused work compact. Every scenario has numbered AC<n>.<m>: assertions, non-empty verify: lines, and at least one repository citation.

3. Complete mandatory ## Human decisions with exactly one machine-readable shape: None — <rationale>, or checklist items where open decisions are - [ ] ... and resolved decisions are - [x] ... — Decision: .... Place every material behavior/interface judgment there; do not hide one as a deferred decision. Any unchecked item keeps the plan draft.

4. Complete ## Interface contract using all seven exact canonical labels from the template: gRPC/protobuf, exported Go APIs, tool schemas, CLI/config, events/persistence, security/authority, and compatibility/migration. Every category needs non-placeholder content; use None — <rationale> only when genuinely absent. Public or material decisions may not be deferred to implementation.

5. Apply the declared decision-record outcome. Create a new ADR only for the Architectural decision named by the plan; update living docs where behavior changes. Add the plan to docs/acceptance/README.md.

6. Run:

   bash .claude/skills/to-acceptance-plan/scripts/check-acceptance-plan.sh docs/acceptance/<slug>.md
   bash .claude/skills/to-acceptance-plan/scripts/check-acceptance-plan-test.sh
   task docs
   

   The regression fixture script is also wired through task docs:check and therefore task docs; the explicit command makes its authoring-time coverage visible.

7. Run one advisory devils-advocate pass and at most two relevant specialist spot-checks. Fold clear corrections in; batch material open decisions for the human. Re-run checks.

Amendment mode

Use amendment mode only after a blocked-contract-drift handoff and a separate, explicit user authorization to invoke /to-acceptance-plan for that amendment. The orchestrator cannot authorize or perform it. Amend the durable plan and related decision/task docs using the Split Plan / Interface PR flow regardless of the original delivery mode: run the checker and docs gates, open the amendment PR, then stop for human review. Merging the amended Plan / Interface PR is the approval event; no separate status-line edit is required. Report the amendment PR and full merged commit so /plan-orchestrate can prove approval by git ancestry, correct a lagging proposed label if needed, record both in run.md, establish the required ancestry, regenerate decomposition and briefs, and only then resume dispatch. The normal side-effect authority rules above still apply; amendment mode does not imply permission to branch, commit, push, or open a PR.

Worktree ownership record

Before any permitted branch/worktree side effect, create .scratch/orchestrate/<slug>/run.md and record the integration/plan worktree path, owner classification (harness-owned-native, orchestrator-created-disposable, or primary-current where applicable), branch, creation baseline, and cleanup eligibility. On resume, verify the record against git worktree list. Only an explicitly orchestrator-created-disposable worktree that completed successfully may be eligible for removal; never infer ownership from its path.

Delivery handoff

For Split, explicitly stage only the plan/interface docs and generated docs, commit on plan/<slug>, push that branch, and open a PR with stage Plan / Interface. Use Relates to #N or Tracking: #N as ordinary text. GitHub has no Related-to keyword: do not use closing keywords or sidebar-link this PR as the issue-closing PR. Report the PR URL, branch, worktree, checker result, and docs result, then STOP. Merging the PR is the approval event — no separate status-line edit is required before merge; /plan-orchestrate proves approval by git ancestry and corrects the label if it lags.

For Combined, prepare the proposed plan on the eventual combined implementation branch and STOP without pushing or opening a separate plan PR. If the explicit user request authorizes a local commit, commit the plan there; otherwise leave it as the recorded handoff and let the explicitly invoked orchestrator make the first combined candidate commit before dispatch. The user must explicitly invoke /plan-orchestrate to add the one-task implementation, verify the combined candidate, and open the sole Combined PR.