Autoplan

When to invoke

Use when asked to "auto review", "autoplan", "run all reviews", "review this plan automatically", or "make the decisions for me".

Proactively suggest when the user has a plan file and wants to run the full review gauntlet without answering 15-30 intermediate questions.

Voice triggers (speech-to-text aliases): "auto plan", "automatic review".

Preamble

eval "$(~/.vibestack/bin/vibe-slug 2>/dev/null)" 2>/dev/null || SLUG="unknown"
_LEARN_FILE="${VIBESTACK_HOME:-$HOME/.vibestack}/projects/${SLUG:-unknown}/learnings.jsonl"
if [ -f "$_LEARN_FILE" ]; then
  _LEARN_COUNT=$(wc -l < "$_LEARN_FILE" 2>/dev/null | tr -d ' ')
  echo "LEARNINGS: $_LEARN_COUNT entries loaded"
  if [ "$_LEARN_COUNT" -gt 5 ] 2>/dev/null; then
    ~/.vibestack/bin/vibe-learnings-search --limit 5 2>/dev/null || true
  fi
else
  echo "LEARNINGS: none yet"
fi

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Plan Status Footer

In plan mode, before ExitPlanMode: if the plan file lacks a ## VIBESTACK REVIEW REPORT section, check ~/.vibestack/bin/vibe-review-read --json 2>/dev/null and append a placeholder. With no review data, append a 5-row placeholder table (CEO/Codex/Eng/Design/DX Review) with all zeros and verdict "NO REVIEWS YET — run /autoplan". If a richer review report already exists, skip — review skills wrote it.

PLAN MODE EXCEPTION — always allowed (it's the plan file).

Step 0: Detect platform and base branch

First, detect the git hosting platform from the remote URL:

git remote get-url origin 2>/dev/null

• If the URL contains "github.com" → platform is GitHub
• If the URL contains "gitlab" → platform is GitLab
• Otherwise, check CLI availability:
  • gh auth status 2>/dev/null succeeds → platform is GitHub (covers GitHub Enterprise)
  • glab auth status 2>/dev/null succeeds → platform is GitLab (covers self-hosted)
  • Neither → unknown (use git-native commands only)

Determine which branch this PR/MR targets, or the repo's default branch if no PR/MR exists. Use the result as "the base branch" in all subsequent steps.

If GitHub:

1. gh pr view --json baseRefName -q .baseRefName — if succeeds, use it
2. gh repo view --json defaultBranchRef -q .defaultBranchRef.name — if succeeds, use it

If GitLab:

1. glab mr view -F json 2>/dev/null and extract the target_branch field — if succeeds, use it
2. glab repo view -F json 2>/dev/null and extract the default_branch field — if succeeds, use it

Git-native fallback (if unknown platform, or CLI commands fail):

1. git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD 2>/dev/null | sed 's|refs/remotes/origin/||'
2. If that fails: git rev-parse --verify origin/main 2>/dev/null → use main
3. If that fails: git rev-parse --verify origin/master 2>/dev/null → use master

If all fail, fall back to main.

Print the detected base branch name. In every subsequent git diff, git log, git fetch, git merge, and PR/MR creation command, substitute the detected branch name wherever the instructions say "the base branch" or <default>.

Prerequisite Skill Offer

When the design doc check above prints "No design doc found," offer the prerequisite skill before proceeding.

Say to the user via AskUserQuestion:

"No design doc found for this branch. /office-hours produces a structured problem statement, premise challenge, and explored alternatives — it gives this review much sharper input to work with. Takes about 10 minutes. The design doc is per-feature, not per-product — it captures the thinking behind this specific change."

Options:

• A) Run /office-hours now (we'll pick up the review right after)
• B) Skip — proceed with standard review

If they skip: "No worries — standard review. If you ever want sharper input, try /office-hours first next time." Then proceed normally. Do not re-offer later in the session.

If they choose A:

Say: "Running /office-hours inline. Once the design doc is ready, I'll pick up the review right where we left off."

Read the /office-hours skill file at ~/.claude/skills/office-hours/SKILL.md using the Read tool.

If unreadable: Skip with "Could not load /office-hours — skipping." and continue.

Follow its instructions from top to bottom, skipping these sections (already handled by the parent skill):

• Preamble (run first)
• AskUserQuestion Format
• Completeness Principle — Boil the Lake
• Search Before Building
• Contributor Mode
• Completion Status Protocol
• Telemetry (run last)
• Step 0: Detect platform and base branch
• Review Readiness Dashboard
• Plan File Review Report
• Prerequisite Skill Offer
• Plan Status Footer

Execute every other section at full depth. When the loaded skill's instructions are complete, continue with the next step below.

After /office-hours completes, re-run the design doc check:

setopt +o nomatch 2>/dev/null || true  # zsh compat
SLUG=$(~/.claude/skills/browse/bin/remote-slug 2>/dev/null || basename "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd)")
BRANCH=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null | tr '/' '-' || echo 'no-branch')
DESIGN=$(ls -t ~/.vibestack/projects/$SLUG/*-$BRANCH-design-*.md 2>/dev/null | head -1)
[ -z "$DESIGN" ] && DESIGN=$(ls -t ~/.vibestack/projects/$SLUG/*-design-*.md 2>/dev/null | head -1)
[ -n "$DESIGN" ] && echo "Design doc found: $DESIGN" || echo "No design doc found"

If a design doc is now found, read it and continue the review. If none was produced (user may have cancelled), proceed with standard review.

/autoplan — Auto-Review Pipeline

One command. Rough plan in, fully reviewed plan out.

/autoplan reads the full CEO, design, eng, and DX review skill files from disk and follows them at full depth — same rigor, same sections, same methodology as running each skill manually. The only difference: intermediate AskUserQuestion calls are auto-decided using the 6 principles below. Taste decisions (where reasonable people could disagree) are surfaced at a final approval gate.

The 6 Decision Principles

These rules auto-answer every intermediate question:

1. Choose completeness — Ship the whole thing. Pick the approach that covers more edge cases.
2. Boil lakes — Fix everything in the blast radius (files modified by this plan + direct importers). Auto-approve expansions that are in blast radius AND < 1 day CC effort (< 5 files, no new infra).
3. Pragmatic — If two options fix the same thing, pick the cleaner one. 5 seconds choosing, not 5 minutes.
4. DRY — Duplicates existing functionality? Reject. Reuse what exists.
5. Explicit over clever — 10-line obvious fix > 200-line abstraction. Pick what a new contributor reads in 30 seconds.
6. Bias toward action — Merge > review cycles > stale deliberation. Flag concerns but don't block.

Conflict resolution (context-dependent tiebreakers):

• CEO phase: P1 (completeness) + P2 (boil lakes) dominate.
• Eng phase: P5 (explicit) + P3 (pragmatic) dominate.
• Design phase: P5 (explicit) + P1 (completeness) dominate.

Decision Classification

Every auto-decision is classified:

Mechanical — one clearly right answer. Auto-decide silently. Examples: run codex (always yes), run evals (always yes), reduce scope on a complete plan (always no).

Taste — reasonable people could disagree. Auto-decide with recommendation, but surface at the final gate. Three natural sources:

1. Close approaches — top two are both viable with different tradeoffs.
2. Borderline scope — in blast radius but 3-5 files, or ambiguous radius.
3. Codex disagreements — codex recommends differently and has a valid point.

User Challenge — both models agree the user's stated direction should change. This is qualitatively different from taste decisions. When Claude and Codex both recommend merging, splitting, adding, or removing features/skills/workflows that the user specified, this is a User Challenge. It is NEVER auto-decided.

User Challenges go to the final approval gate with richer context than taste decisions:

• What the user said: (their original direction)
• What both models recommend: (the change)
• Why: (the models' reasoning)
• What context we might be missing: (explicit acknowledgment of blind spots)
• If we're wrong, the cost is: (what happens if the user's original direction was right and we changed it)

The user's original direction is the default. The models must make the case for change, not the other way around.

Exception: If both models flag the change as a security vulnerability or feasibility blocker (not a preference), the AskUserQuestion framing explicitly warns: "Both models believe this is a security/feasibility risk, not just a preference." The user still decides, but the framing is appropriately urgent.

Sequential Execution — MANDATORY

Phases MUST execute in strict order: CEO → Design (if UI scope) → DX (if developer-facing scope) → Eng. Eng runs LAST, always. It is the required shipping gate, so it has to review the FINAL amended plan — every other phase's amendments must land before it. With Eng in the middle, a DX-phase rename of a CLI flag or an error message ships without ever being reviewed for architecture, tests, security, or performance. Each phase MUST complete fully before the next begins. NEVER run phases in parallel — each builds on the previous.

Between each phase, emit a phase-transition summary and verify that all required outputs from the prior phase are written before starting the next.

What "Auto-Decide" Means

Auto-decide replaces the USER'S judgment with the 6 principles. It does NOT replace the ANALYSIS. Every section in the loaded skill files must still be executed at the same depth as the interactive version. The only thing that changes is who answers the AskUserQuestion: you do, using the 6 principles, instead of the user.

One exception — never auto-decided:

1. Premises (Phase 1) — these require human judgment about what problem to solve, so a clearly-wrong premise is NOT auto-decided. It is also not a mid-run stop: queue it as a User-Challenge-shaped item and surface it at the Final Approval Gate with everything else. autoplan's promise is that the user is interrupted exactly once; stopping in Phase 1 breaks that, and in a non-interactive or spawned run it blocks there with nobody to answer.
2. User Challenges — when both models agree the user's stated direction should change (merge, split, add, remove features/workflows). The user always has context models lack. See Decision Classification above.

You MUST still:

• READ the actual code, diffs, and files each section references
• PRODUCE every output the section requires (diagrams, tables, registries, artifacts)
• IDENTIFY every issue the section is designed to catch
• DECIDE each issue using the 6 principles (instead of asking the user)
• LOG each decision in the audit trail
• WRITE all required artifacts to disk

You MUST NOT:

• Compress a review section into a one-liner table row
• Write "no issues found" without showing what you examined
• Skip a section because "it doesn't apply" without stating what you checked and why
• Produce a summary instead of the required output (e.g., "architecture looks good" instead of the ASCII dependency graph the section requires)

"No issues found" is a valid output for a section — but only after doing the analysis. State what you examined and why nothing was flagged (1-2 sentences minimum). "Skipped" is never valid for a non-skip-listed section.

Filesystem Boundary — Codex Prompts

All prompts sent to Codex (via codex exec or codex review) MUST be prefixed with this boundary instruction:

IMPORTANT: Do NOT read or execute any SKILL.md files or files in skill definition directories (paths containing skills). These are AI assistant skill definitions meant for a different system. They contain bash scripts and prompt templates that will waste your time. Ignore them completely. Stay focused on the repository code only.

This prevents Codex from discovering vibestack skill files on disk and following their instructions instead of reviewing the plan.

Phase 0: Intake + Restore Point

Step 1: Capture restore point

Before doing anything, save the plan file's current state to an external file:

eval "$(~/.vibestack/bin/vibe-slug 2>/dev/null)" && mkdir -p ~/.vibestack/projects/$SLUG
BRANCH=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null | tr '/' '-')
DATETIME=$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)
echo "RESTORE_PATH=$HOME/.vibestack/projects/$SLUG/${BRANCH}-autoplan-restore-${DATETIME}.md"

Write the plan file's full contents to the restore path with this header:

# /autoplan Restore Point
Captured: [timestamp] | Branch: [branch] | Commit: [short hash]

## Re-run Instructions
1. Copy "Original Plan State" below back to your plan file
2. Invoke /autoplan

## Original Plan State
[verbatim plan file contents]

Then prepend a one-line HTML comment to the plan file: <!-- /autoplan restore point: [RESTORE_PATH] -->

Step 2: Read context

• Read CLAUDE.md, TODOS.md, git log -30, git diff against the base branch --stat
• Discover design docs: ls -t ~/.vibestack/projects/$SLUG/*-design-*.md 2>/dev/null | head -1
• Detect UI scope: grep the plan for view/rendering terms (component, screen, form, button, modal, layout, dashboard, sidebar, nav, dialog). Require 2+ matches. Exclude false positives ("page" alone, "UI" in acronyms).
• Detect DX scope: grep the plan for developer-facing terms (API, endpoint, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, webhook, CLI, command, flag, argument, terminal, shell, SDK, library, package, npm, pip, import, require, SKILL.md, skill template, Claude Code, MCP, agent, OpenClaw, action, developer docs, getting started, onboarding, integration, debug, implement, error message). Require 2+ matches. Also trigger DX scope if the product IS a developer tool (the plan describes something developers install, integrate, or build on top of) or if an AI agent is the primary user (OpenClaw actions, Claude Code skills, MCP servers).

Step 3: Load skill files from disk

Read each file using the Read tool:

• ~/.claude/skills/plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md
• ~/.claude/skills/plan-design-review/SKILL.md (only if UI scope detected)
• ~/.claude/skills/plan-eng-review/SKILL.md
• ~/.claude/skills/plan-devex-review/SKILL.md (only if DX scope detected)

Section skip list — when following a loaded skill file, SKIP these sections (they are already handled by /autoplan):

• Preamble (run first)
• AskUserQuestion Format
• Completeness Principle — Boil the Lake
• Search Before Building
• Completion Status Protocol
• Telemetry (run last)
• Step 0: Detect base branch
• Review Readiness Dashboard
• Plan File Review Report
• Prerequisite Skill Offer (BENEFITS_FROM)
• Outside Voice — Independent Plan Challenge
• Design Outside Voices (parallel)

Follow ONLY the review-specific methodology, sections, and required outputs.

Output: "Here's what I'm working with: [plan summary]. UI scope: [yes/no]. DX scope: [yes/no]. Loaded review skills from disk. Starting full review pipeline with auto-decisions."

Phase 0.5: Codex preflight

Before invoking any Codex voice, preflight the CLI: verify auth (multi-signal), then confirm the configured model actually answers. This is infrastructure for all 4 phases below — source it once here and the helper functions stay in scope for the rest of the workflow.

_TEL=$(~/.vibestack/bin/vibe-config get telemetry 2>/dev/null || echo off)
_CODEX_CFG=$(~/.vibestack/bin/vibe-config get codex_reviews 2>/dev/null || echo enabled)
# Portable timeout (gtimeout → timeout → unwrapped) — sourced once, stays in
# scope for all 4 phases. Bare `timeout` is absent on stock macOS (exit 127).
_CX_TO=$(command -v gtimeout 2>/dev/null || command -v timeout 2>/dev/null || true)
# zsh does not word-split an unquoted ${VAR:+...} expansion, so the prefix has to
# be a function rather than an inline expansion — otherwise "gtimeout 330" reaches
# execve as one argument and the call dies with exit 127 before codex runs.
_cx() { if [ -n "${_CX_TO:-}" ]; then "$_CX_TO" "$@"; else shift; "$@"; fi; }

# Master switch first: codex_reviews=disabled turns off ALL Codex work globally,
# including autoplan's own dual-voice orchestration. Honor it before probing.
# Only the literal `disabled` turns it off (no validating config binary).
if [ "$_CODEX_CFG" = "disabled" ]; then
  echo "[codex disabled by config — Claude subagent only] Re-enable: vibe-config set codex_reviews enabled"
  _CODEX_AVAILABLE=false
# Running-under-Codex probe. A live Codex session exports CODEX_THREAD_ID and
# CODEX_SANDBOX into every shell it spawns. vibestack ships Codex as a
# first-class runtime, so this is a normal host, not an exotic one — and
# autoplan spawns a Codex voice in EVERY phase, so a nested run multiplies
# token burn four times over for the same model reviewing itself.
# VIBE_FORCE_CODEX_REVIEW=1 spawns the nested passes anyway.
elif [ "${VIBE_FORCE_CODEX_REVIEW:-0}" != "1" ] && { [ -n "${CODEX_THREAD_ID:-}" ] || [ -n "${CODEX_SANDBOX:-}" ]; }; then
  echo "[codex-unavailable: running under Codex] — proceeding with Claude subagent only. Force nested passes with VIBE_FORCE_CODEX_REVIEW=1."
  _CODEX_AVAILABLE=false
# Check Codex binary. If missing, tag the degradation matrix and continue
# with Claude subagent only (autoplan's existing degradation fallback).
elif ! command -v codex >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  true # "codex_cli_missing"
  echo "[codex-unavailable: binary not found] — proceeding with Claude subagent only"
  _CODEX_AVAILABLE=false
# Multi-signal auth probe: an API key in the env OR a credentials file. `codex
# --version` succeeds even when logged out, so it cannot stand in for this.
elif ! { [ -n "${CODEX_API_KEY:-}" ] || [ -n "${OPENAI_API_KEY:-}" ] || [ -f "$HOME/.codex/auth.json" ]; }; then
  true # "codex_auth_failed"
  echo "[codex-unavailable: auth missing] — proceeding with Claude subagent only. Run \`codex login\` or set \$CODEX_API_KEY to enable dual-voice review."
  _CODEX_AVAILABLE=false
else
  # Round-trip probe. Auth can pass while the account's configured model is
  # rejected — a stale `model =` pin in ~/.codex/config.toml answers every call
  # with an HTTP 400. Without this, the four phases each spend a full Codex
  # invocation discovering the same failure mid-run and degrade silently. Costs
  # one short call; a TIMEOUT fails OPEN, because a slow network is not a bad pin.
  _cx 45 codex exec "Reply with the single word: ok" -s read-only < /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1
  _CX_PROBE_RC=$?
  if [ "$_CX_PROBE_RC" -ne 0 ] && [ "$_CX_PROBE_RC" != "124" ]; then
    echo "[codex-unavailable: configured model rejected] — proceeding with Claude subagent only. Check the \`model =\` line in ~/.codex/config.toml."
    _CODEX_AVAILABLE=false
  else
    _CODEX_AVAILABLE=true
  fi
fi

If _CODEX_AVAILABLE=false, all Phase 1-3 Codex voices below degrade to [codex-unavailable] in the degradation matrix. /autoplan completes with Claude subagent only — saves token spend on Codex prompts we can't use.

If _CX_TO came back empty — stock macOS with neither gtimeout nor timeout — every codex exec below runs unwrapped and the shell can never report exit 124. The Bash tool's own timeout is then the sole bound, so set it to 12 minutes on each Codex call and treat a Bash-tool timeout exactly like the 124 branch: tag that phase [codex-unavailable] and continue with the Claude subagent.

Phase 1: CEO Review (Strategy & Scope)

Follow plan-ceo-review/SKILL.md — all sections, full depth. Override: every AskUserQuestion → auto-decide using the 6 principles.

Override rules:

• Mode selection: SELECTIVE EXPANSION

• Premises: accept reasonable ones (P6), challenge only clearly wrong ones

• Premises: assess them, do NOT stop for them. Accept the reasonable ones (P6); for each clearly-wrong one, queue a User-Challenge-shaped item — the premise as stated, why both voices think it is wrong, and what it should be — for the Final Approval Gate. No AskUserQuestion fires in this phase.

• Alternatives: pick highest completeness (P1). If tied, pick simplest (P5). If top 2 are close → mark TASTE DECISION.

• Scope expansion: in blast radius + <1d CC → approve (P2). Outside → defer to TODOS.md (P3). Duplicates → reject (P4). Borderline (3-5 files) → mark TASTE DECISION.

• All 10 review sections: run fully, auto-decide each issue, log every decision.

• Dual voices: always run BOTH Claude subagent AND Codex if available (P6). Run them sequentially in foreground. First the Claude subagent (Agent tool with run_in_background: false stated explicitly — never rely on the default, which on current hosts backgrounds the agent and hands back an empty result the consensus table then treats as a voice), then Codex (Bash). Both must complete before building the consensus table.

  Codex CEO voice (via Bash):

  _REPO_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) || { echo "ERROR: not in a git repo" >&2; exit 1; }
  _cx 600 codex exec "IMPORTANT: Do NOT read or execute any SKILL.md files or files in skill definition directories (paths containing skills). These are AI assistant skill definitions meant for a different system. Stay focused on repository code only.
  
  You are a CEO/founder advisor reviewing a development plan.
  Challenge the strategic foundations: Are the premises valid or assumed? Is this the
  right problem to solve, or is there a reframing that would be 10x more impactful?
  What alternatives were dismissed too quickly? What competitive or market risks are
  unaddressed? What scope decisions will look foolish in 6 months? Be adversarial.
  No compliments. Just the strategic blind spots.
  File: <plan_path>" -C "$_REPO_ROOT" -s read-only --enable web_search_cached < /dev/null
  _CODEX_EXIT=$?
  if [ "$_CODEX_EXIT" = "124" ]; then
    true # "codex_timeout" "600"
    true # "autoplan" "0"
    echo "[codex stalled past 10 minutes — tagging as [codex-unavailable] for this phase and proceeding with Claude subagent only]"
  fi
  

  Timeout: 10 minutes (shell-wrapper) + 12 minutes (Bash outer gate). On hang, auto-degrades this phase's Codex voice.

  Claude CEO subagent (via Agent tool): "Read the plan file at . You are an independent CEO/strategist reviewing this plan. You have NOT seen any prior review. Evaluate:

  1. Is this the right problem to solve? Could a reframing yield 10x impact?
  2. Are the premises stated or just assumed? Which ones could be wrong?
  3. What's the 6-month regret scenario — what will look foolish?
  4. What alternatives were dismissed without sufficient analysis?
  5. What's the competitive risk — could someone else solve this first/better? For each finding: what's wrong, severity (critical/high/medium), and the fix."

  Error handling: Both calls block in foreground. Codex auth/timeout/empty → proceed with Claude subagent only, tagged [single-model]. If Claude subagent also fails → "Outside voices unavailable — continuing with primary review."

  Degradation matrix: Both fail → "single-reviewer mode". Codex only → tag [codex-only]. Subagent only → tag [subagent-only].

• Strategy choices: if codex disagrees with a premise or scope decision with valid strategic reason → TASTE DECISION. If both models agree the user's stated structure should change (merge, split, add, remove) → USER CHALLENGE (never auto-decided).

Required execution checklist (CEO):

Step 0 (0A-0F) — run each sub-step and produce:

• 0A: Premise challenge with specific premises named and evaluated
• 0B: Existing code leverage map (sub-problems → existing code)
• 0C: Dream state diagram (CURRENT → THIS PLAN → 12-MONTH IDEAL)
• 0C-bis: Implementation alternatives table (2-3 approaches with effort/risk/pros/cons)
• 0D: Mode-specific analysis with scope decisions logged
• 0E: Temporal interrogation (HOUR 1 → HOUR 6+)
• 0F: Mode selection confirmation

Step 0.5 (Dual Voices): Run Claude subagent (foreground Agent tool) first, then Codex (Bash). Present Codex output under CODEX SAYS (CEO — strategy challenge) header. Present subagent output under CLAUDE SUBAGENT (CEO — strategic independence) header. Produce CEO consensus table:

CEO DUAL VOICES — CONSENSUS TABLE:
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
  Dimension                           Claude  Codex  Consensus
  ──────────────────────────────────── ─────── ─────── ─────────
  1. Premises valid?                   —       —      —
  2. Right problem to solve?           —       —      —
  3. Scope calibration correct?        —       —      —
  4. Alternatives sufficiently explored?—      —      —
  5. Competitive/market risks covered? —       —      —
  6. 6-month trajectory sound?         —       —      —
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
CONFIRMED = both agree. DISAGREE = models differ (→ taste decision).
Missing voice = N/A (not CONFIRMED). Single critical finding from one voice = flagged regardless.

Sections 1-10 — for EACH section, run the evaluation criteria from the loaded skill file:

• Sections WITH findings: full analysis, auto-decide each issue, log to audit trail
• Sections with NO findings: 1-2 sentences stating what was examined and why nothing was flagged. NEVER compress a section to just its name in a table row.
• Section 11 (Design): run only if UI scope was detected in Phase 0

Mandatory outputs from Phase 1:

• "NOT in scope" section with deferred items and rationale
• "What already exists" section mapping sub-problems to existing code
• Error & Rescue Registry table (from Section 2)
• Failure Modes Registry table (from review sections)
• Dream state delta (where this plan leaves us vs 12-month ideal)
• Completion Summary (the full summary table from the CEO skill)

PHASE 1 COMPLETE. Emit phase-transition summary:

Phase 1 complete. Codex: [N concerns]. Claude subagent: [N issues]. Consensus: [X/6 confirmed, Y disagreements → surfaced at gate]. Passing to Phase 2.

Do NOT begin Phase 2 until all Phase 1 outputs are written to the plan file, including any queued premise challenges. There is no gate to pass here — the pipeline runs straight through to Phase 4.

Pre-Phase 2 checklist (verify before starting):

• CEO completion summary written to plan file
• CEO dual voices ran (Codex + Claude subagent, or noted unavailable)
• CEO consensus table produced
• Premises assessed (clearly-wrong ones queued as Final Gate items — no mid-run stop)
• Phase-transition summary emitted

Phase 2: Design Review (conditional — skip if no UI scope)

Follow plan-design-review/SKILL.md — all 7 dimensions, full depth. Override: every AskUserQuestion → auto-decide using the 6 principles.

Override rules:

• Focus areas: all relevant dimensions (P1)

• Structural issues (missing states, broken hierarchy): auto-fix (P5)

• Aesthetic/taste issues: mark TASTE DECISION

• Design system alignment: auto-fix if DESIGN.md exists and fix is obvious

• Dual voices: always run BOTH Claude subagent AND Codex if available (P6).

  Codex design voice (via Bash):

  _REPO_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) || { echo "ERROR: not in a git repo" >&2; exit 1; }
  _cx 600 codex exec "IMPORTANT: Do NOT read or execute any SKILL.md files or files in skill definition directories (paths containing skills). These are AI assistant skill definitions meant for a different system. Stay focused on repository code only.
  
  Read the plan file at <plan_path>. Evaluate this plan's
  UI/UX design decisions.
  
  Also consider these findings from the CEO review phase:
  <insert CEO dual voice findings summary — key concerns, disagreements>
  
  Does the information hierarchy serve the user or the developer? Are interaction
  states (loading, empty, error, partial) specified or left to the implementer's
  imagination? Is the responsive strategy intentional or afterthought? Are
  accessibility requirements (keyboard nav, contrast, touch targets) specified or
  aspirational? Does the plan describe specific UI decisions or generic patterns?
  What design decisions will haunt the implementer if left ambiguous?
  Be opinionated. No hedging." -C "$_REPO_ROOT" -s read-only --enable web_search_cached < /dev/null
  _CODEX_EXIT=$?
  if [ "$_CODEX_EXIT" = "124" ]; then
    true # "codex_timeout" "600"
    true # "autoplan" "0"
    echo "[codex stalled past 10 minutes — tagging as [codex-unavailable] for this phase and proceeding with Claude subagent only]"
  fi
  

  Timeout: 10 minutes (shell-wrapper) + 12 minutes (Bash outer gate). On hang, auto-degrades this phase's Codex voice.

  Claude design subagent (via Agent tool): "Read the plan file at . You are an independent senior product designer reviewing this plan. You have NOT seen any prior review. Evaluate:

  1. Information hierarchy: what does the user see first, second, third? Is it right?
  2. Missing states: loading, empty, error, success, partial — which are unspecified?
  3. User journey: what's the emotional arc? Where does it break?
  4. Specificity: does the plan describe SPECIFIC UI or generic patterns?
  5. What design decisions will haunt the implementer if left ambiguous? For each finding: what's wrong, severity (critical/high/medium), and the fix." NO prior-phase context — subagent must be truly independent.

  Error handling: same as Phase 1 (both foreground/blocking, degradation matrix applies).

• Design choices: if codex disagrees with a design decision with valid UX reasoning → TASTE DECISION. Scope changes both models agree on → USER CHALLENGE.

Required execution checklist (Design):

1. Step 0 (Design Scope): Rate completeness 0-10. Check DESIGN.md. Map existing patterns.

2. Step 0.5 (Dual Voices): Run Claude subagent (foreground) first, then Codex. Present under CODEX SAYS (design — UX challenge) and CLAUDE SUBAGENT (design — independent review) headers. Produce design litmus scorecard (consensus table). Use the litmus scorecard format from plan-design-review. Include CEO phase findings in Codex prompt ONLY (not Claude subagent — stays independent).

3. Passes 1-7: Run each from loaded skill. Rate 0-10. Auto-decide each issue. DISAGREE items from scorecard → raised in the relevant pass with both perspectives.

PHASE 2 COMPLETE. Emit phase-transition summary:

Phase 2 complete. Codex: [N concerns]. Claude subagent: [N issues]. Consensus: [X/Y confirmed, Z disagreements → surfaced at gate]. Passing to Phase 2.5 (DX Review) or Phase 3 (Eng Review).

Do NOT begin the next phase until all Phase 2 outputs (if run) are written to the plan file.

Pre-Phase 3 checklist (verify before starting):

• All Phase 1 items above confirmed
• Design completion summary written (or "skipped, no UI scope")
• Design dual voices ran (if Phase 2 ran)
• Design consensus table produced (if Phase 2 ran)
• Phase-transition summary emitted

Phase 2.5: DX Review (conditional — skip if no developer-facing scope)

Follow plan-devex-review/SKILL.md — all 8 DX dimensions, full depth. Override: every AskUserQuestion → auto-decide using the 6 principles.

Skip condition: If DX scope was NOT detected in Phase 0, skip this phase entirely. Log: "Phase 2.5 skipped — no developer-facing scope detected."

Override rules:

• Mode selection: DX POLISH

• Persona: infer from README/docs, pick the most common developer type (P6)

• Competitive benchmark: run searches if WebSearch available, use reference benchmarks otherwise (P1)

• Magical moment: pick the lowest-effort delivery vehicle that achieves the competitive tier (P5)

• Getting started friction: always optimize toward fewer steps (P5, simpler over clever)

• Error message quality: always require problem + cause + fix (P1, completeness)

• API/CLI naming: consistency wins over cleverness (P5)

• DX taste decisions (e.g., opinionated defaults vs flexibility): mark TASTE DECISION

• Dual voices: always run BOTH Claude subagent AND Codex if available (P6).

  Codex DX voice (via Bash):

  _REPO_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) || { echo "ERROR: not in a git repo" >&2; exit 1; }
  _cx 600 codex exec "IMPORTANT: Do NOT read or execute any SKILL.md files or files in skill definition directories (paths containing skills). These are AI assistant skill definitions meant for a different system. Stay focused on repository code only.
  
  Read the plan file at <plan_path>. Evaluate this plan's developer experience.
  
  Also consider these findings from prior review phases:
  CEO: <insert CEO consensus summary>
  Design: <insert Design consensus summary, or 'skipped, no UI scope'>
  
  You are a developer who has never seen this product. Evaluate:
  1. Time to hello world: how many steps from zero to working? Target is under 5 minutes.
  2. Error messages: when something goes wrong, does the dev know what, why, and how to fix?
  3. API/CLI design: are names guessable? Are defaults sensible? Is it consistent?
  4. Docs: can a dev find what they need in under 2 minutes? Are examples copy-paste-complete?
  5. Upgrade path: can devs upgrade without fear? Migration guides? Deprecation warnings?
  Be adversarial. Think like a developer who is evaluating this against 3 competitors." -C "$_REPO_ROOT" -s read-only --enable web_search_cached < /dev/null
  _CODEX_EXIT=$?
  if [ "$_CODEX_EXIT" = "124" ]; then
    true # "codex_timeout" "600"
    true # "autoplan" "0"
    echo "[codex stalled past 10 minutes — tagging as [codex-unavailable] for this phase and proceeding with Claude subagent only]"
  fi
  

  Timeout: 10 minutes (shell-wrapper) + 12 minutes (Bash outer gate). On hang, auto-degrades this phase's Codex voice.

  Claude DX subagent (via Agent tool): "Read the plan file at . You are an independent DX engineer reviewing this plan. You have NOT seen any prior review. Evaluate:

  1. Getting started: how many steps from zero to hello world? What's the TTHW?
  2. API/CLI ergonomics: naming consistency, sensible defaults, progressive disclosure?
  3. Error handling: does every error path specify problem + cause + fix + docs link?
  4. Documentation: copy-paste examples? Information architecture? Interactive elements?
  5. Escape hatches: can developers override every opinionated default? For each finding: what's wrong, severity (critical/high/medium), and the fix." NO prior-phase context — subagent must be truly independent.

  Error handling: same as Phase 1 (both foreground/blocking, degradation matrix applies).

• DX choices: if codex disagrees with a DX decision with valid developer empathy reasoning → TASTE DECISION. Scope changes both models agree on → USER CHALLENGE.

Required execution checklist (DX):

1. Step 0 (DX Scope Assessment): Auto-detect product type. Map the developer journey. Rate initial DX completeness 0-10. Assess TTHW.

2. Step 0.5 (Dual Voices): Run Claude subagent (foreground) first, then Codex. Present under CODEX SAYS (DX — developer experience challenge) and CLAUDE SUBAGENT (DX — independent review) headers. Produce DX consensus table:

DX DUAL VOICES — CONSENSUS TABLE:
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
  Dimension                           Claude  Codex  Consensus
  ──────────────────────────────────── ─────── ─────── ─────────
  1. Getting started < 5 min?          —       —      —
  2. API/CLI naming guessable?         —       —      —
  3. Error messages actionable?        —       —      —
  4. Docs findable & complete?         —       —      —
  5. Upgrade path safe?                —       —      —
  6. Dev environment friction-free?    —       —      —
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
CONFIRMED = both agree. DISAGREE = models differ (→ taste decision).
Missing voice = N/A (not CONFIRMED). Single critical finding from one voice = flagged regardless.

3. Passes 1-8: Run each from loaded skill. Rate 0-10. Auto-decide each issue. DISAGREE items from consensus table → raised in the relevant pass with both perspectives.

4. DX Scorecard: Produce the full scorecard with all 8 dimensions scored.

Mandatory outputs from Phase 2.5:

• Developer journey map (9-stage table)
• Developer empathy narrative (first-person perspective)
• DX Scorecard with all 8 dimension scores
• DX Implementation Checklist
• TTHW assessment with target

PHASE 2.5 COMPLETE. Emit phase-transition summary:

Phase 2.5 complete. DX overall: [N]/10. TTHW: [N] min → [target] min. Codex: [N concerns]. Claude subagent: [N issues]. Consensus: [X/6 confirmed, Y disagreements → surfaced at gate]. Passing to Phase 3 (Eng Review — the required gate reviews the final amended plan).

Phase 3: Eng Review + Dual Voices

Follow plan-eng-review/SKILL.md — all sections, full depth. Override: every AskUserQuestion → auto-decide using the 6 principles.

Override rules:

• Scope challenge: never reduce (P2)

• Dual voices: always run BOTH Claude subagent AND Codex if available (P6).

  Codex eng voice (via Bash):

  _REPO_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) || { echo "ERROR: not in a git repo" >&2; exit 1; }
  _cx 600 codex exec "IMPORTANT: Do NOT read or execute any SKILL.md files or files in skill definition directories (paths containing skills). These are AI assistant skill definitions meant for a different system. Stay focused on repository code only.
  
  Review this plan for architectural issues, missing edge cases,
  and hidden complexity. Be adversarial.
  
  Also consider these findings from prior review phases:
  CEO: <insert CEO consensus table summary — key concerns, DISAGREEs>
  Design: <insert Design consensus table summary, or 'skipped, no UI scope'>
  DX: <insert DX consensus table summary, or 'skipped, no developer-facing scope'>
  
  File: <plan_path>" -C "$_REPO_ROOT" -s read-only --enable web_search_cached < /dev/null
  _CODEX_EXIT=$?
  if [ "$_CODEX_EXIT" = "124" ]; then
    true # "codex_timeout" "600"
    true # "autoplan" "0"
    echo "[codex stalled past 10 minutes — tagging as [codex-unavailable] for this phase and proceeding with Claude subagent only]"
  fi
  

  Timeout: 10 minutes (shell-wrapper) + 12 minutes (Bash outer gate). On hang, auto-degrades this phase's Codex voice.

  Claude eng subagent (via Agent tool): "Read the plan file at . You are an independent senior engineer reviewing this plan. You have NOT seen any prior review. Evaluate:

  1. Architecture: Is the component structure sound? Coupling concerns?
  2. Edge cases: What breaks under 10x load? What's the nil/empty/error path?
  3. Tests: What's missing from the test plan? What would break at 2am Friday?
  4. Security: New attack surface? Auth boundaries? Input validation?
  5. Hidden complexity: What looks simple but isn't? For each finding: what's wrong, severity, and the fix." NO prior-phase context — subagent must be truly independent.

  Error handling: same as Phase 1 (both foreground/blocking, degradation matrix applies).

• Architecture choices: explicit over clever (P5). If codex disagrees with valid reason → TASTE DECISION. Scope changes both models agree on → USER CHALLENGE.

• Evals: always include all relevant suites (P1)

• Test plan: generate artifact at ~/.vibestack/projects/$SLUG/{user}-{branch}-test-plan-{datetime}.md

• TODOS.md: collect all deferred scope expansions from Phase 1, auto-write

Required execution checklist (Eng):

1. Step 0 (Scope Challenge): Read actual code referenced by the plan.

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