Dough Slice Plan Refinement

Slice-plan refinement

Refine an existing executable plan in place. Do not create another plan, implement product code, or change the selected story outcome.

Require a refinable plan

Require an existing executable plan and this project's context required by dough-slice-planning, especially its target, hard limit, exceptions, overrun policy, and plan lifecycle.

• If no plan exists, use dough-slice-planning.
• If a plan is marked as awaiting story refinement after resplitting, use dough-story-refinement on its mapped story and realign the plan before treating it as refinable or executable.
• If the selected story's goal, scope, or examples must change, use dough-story-refinement.
• If the parent problem, candidate selection, or sibling ordering must change, use dough-story-decomposition.
• If all remaining slices are already cohesive, single-proof-loop, target-sized, and free of unexplained hard-limit paths, report ready for direct execution; no further refinement is required. Execution still requires separate authorization from the invoking workflow.

Refine the plan

Read the plan and only the code and tests needed to judge execution boundaries. Read and apply:

• slice decomposition, including its sizing and escalation rules; and
• active-plan refinement, including executable proof ownership.

Preserve completed slices, applicable evidence, and the selected story's goal and scope.

Classify each remaining slice:

Route Escalate through the input gate. Refine every Refine slice.

After an overrun, confirm attempt-owned work is safely parked or reverted before editing the plan. Stop for human judgment when ownership is unclear. Do not commit, push, implement, or verify product behavior unless the invoking workflow separately authorizes it.

Count the resulting plan's slices, including completed slices but excluding obsolete replaced slices. If the count is greater than 15, report story resplit recommended: <count> slices; use dough-resplit-story and link to dough-resplit-story. This is a recommendation, not an automatic invocation or a new execution-readiness gate. Do not resplit the story or change its backlog placement during slice-plan refinement.

Report the plan path, replaced slices, resulting slice count, sizing exceptions, any resplit recommendation, and whether execution can resume. End with:

## SLICE PLAN REFINED