Recipe Front Adjust

Context: UI adjustment on already-implemented features. The verification loop (edit → check against the design source → refine) runs in the parent session.

Execution Pattern

Core Identity: "I am a guided executor. I run the adjustment and the verification loop myself; subagents handle one-shot tasks."

Execution Protocol:

1. Delegate to subagents (one-shot calls): ui-analyzer, work-planner, quality-fixer-frontend.
2. Run in the parent session (multi-step loops and user dialogs): external-resource hearing via AskUserQuestion, write-set confirmation, scale judgment, adjustment edits, verification against the design source, iteration until acceptance.
3. Stop at every [Stop: ...] marker before proceeding.

Initial Mandatory Tasks

Task Registration: Before Step 1, register the recipe's execution flow using TaskCreate so progress is trackable. Register Steps 1-7 below as individual tasks plus a final task "Verify completion against Completion Criteria". Update status using TaskUpdate as each step starts and completes.

Workflow Overview

Adjustment request → external resource hearing (parent session, AskUserQuestion)
                                  ↓
                     ui-analyzer (subagent: fetch external sources + analyze code + propose candidateWriteSet)
                                  ↓
                     write-set confirmation (parent session, AskUserQuestion)
                                  ↓
                     scale judgment on confirmed write set (documentation-criteria matrix)
                                  ↓
            ┌────────────────────┴────────────────────┐
            ↓                                          ↓
   (1-2 files: inline)                  (3-5 files: work-planner subagent → [Stop])
            ↓                                          ↓
            └─→ adjustment + verification (parent session) ←──┘
                                  ↓
                     quality-fixer-frontend (subagent: typecheck/lint/test)
                                  ↓
                     commit

Scope Boundaries

Included in this skill:

• External resource hearing per the external-resource-context skill
• UI fact gathering via ui-analyzer
• Scale judgment via documentation-criteria's Creation Decision Matrix
• Optional work plan creation via work-planner
• Adjustment edits and verification against the design source (run in this session)
• Quality verification via quality-fixer-frontend
• Commit per adjustment unit

Responsibility Boundary: This skill completes when the adjustment is committed and quality has passed. Adjustment work is end-to-end within this recipe; parent session owns edits, verification loops, quality-result routing, and commits.

Escalation Boundary: Escalate to the full frontend design phase when the request requires PRD, UI Spec, Design Doc, new architecture, multi-screen redesign, or any ADR Creation Condition from documentation-criteria.

Adjustment request: $ARGUMENTS

Execution Flow

Step 1: External Resource Hearing

Run the hearing protocol per the external-resource-context skill (frontend domain).

Step 2: UI Fact Gathering

• Invoke ui-analyzer using Agent tool
  • subagent_type: "dev-workflows-frontend:ui-analyzer"
  • description: "UI fact gathering for adjustment"
  • prompt: "requirement_analysis: { affectedFiles: [files inferred from the adjustment request], scale: 'small', purpose: 'UI adjustment', technicalConsiderations: [] }. requirements: [adjustment request]. target_components: [components named in the request]. ui_spec_path: [path if an existing UI Spec covers the affected components, else absent]. Read docs/project-context/external-resources.md, fetch external UI sources via the declared access methods, and analyze the existing UI codebase. Populate candidateWriteSet[] with the files most likely to require modification."

Step 3: Scale Judgment

1. Read candidateWriteSet[] from ui-analyzer output.
2. Present the candidate list to the user via AskUserQuestion: "Confirmed write set for this adjustment? (a) accept high-confidence entries / (b) accept all entries / (c) edit list manually". On c, send a follow-up plain message asking the user to paste the edited file list, then proceed with that list.
3. Apply the Creation Decision Matrix from the documentation-criteria skill to the confirmed write set count:
   • 0 files: The adjustment request did not map to any existing file. Escalate to the user with the message "No write target identified from the adjustment request. Please clarify which component(s) should change, or run the full frontend design phase if this is a new feature." Stop this recipe.
   • 1-2 files: Direct adjustment, no work plan.
   • 3-5 files: Work plan required.
   • 6+ files OR any ADR Creation Condition triggered (architecture changes, contract changes affecting 3+ locations, complex multi-state logic, etc.): Adjustment scope exceeded. Escalate the user to the full frontend design phase. Stop this recipe.

Step 4: Plan Creation (Conditional)

Branch on the scale outcome.

Branch A — 1-2 files

No work plan. Build a minimal adjustment context for the parent session:

• Adjustment request (verbatim)
• ui-analyzer focusAreas[] (raw fact_id; the ui: prefix is only applied when merging with codebase-analysis facts in a Fact Disposition Table, which Branch A does not do)
• Affected files list
• External resources fetched_summary and access methods that the verification loop will use

Present the adjustment context to the user for review.

• [STOP]: User confirms the adjustment context covers the work.

Branch B — 3-5 files

Create a right-sized work plan. Invoke work-planner using Agent tool:

• subagent_type: "dev-workflows-frontend:work-planner"
• description: "Adjustment work plan"
• prompt: "Create a work plan for this UI adjustment. Adjustment request: [verbatim]. ui_analysis: [ui-analyzer JSON]. External resources: docs/project-context/external-resources.md. Scale: 3-5 files (no Design Doc, no ADR). Each phase should be implementable as 1-3 commits. Include a quality checklist matched to the affected components: visual verification, accessibility, i18n parity, generated artifact regeneration when relevant. Output path: docs/plans/[YYYYMMDD]-adjust-[short-description].md."

After work-planner returns:

• Present the work plan to the user.
• [STOP]: Wait for plan approval or revision request. If the user requests changes, re-invoke work-planner with revised guidance.

Step 5: Adjustment + Verification (parent session)

For each adjustment unit (per file in Branch A; per work plan phase in Branch B):

1. Plan the edit based on ui-analyzer focusAreas and the relevant external resource (e.g., design origin's fetched_summary).
2. Apply the edit using Edit / Write / MultiEdit on the affected files.
3. Verify against external sources using whichever access method docs/project-context/external-resources.md declares for each axis:
   • Design origin: compare current rendering against the design source via the declared access method (e.g., design-tool MCP, WebFetch from a public URL, file read from a specification path)
   • Visual rendering: capture screenshot or run a smoke check via the declared visual verification method (e.g., browser MCP, E2E test runner CLI invoked via Bash, dev-server URL inspection, Storybook URL)
   • Design system tokens / variants: confirm against the declared design system source (e.g., design-system MCP, package import, Storybook URL, internal documentation path)
4. Refine and re-verify until the adjustment matches the design source, or matches the user-confirmed adjustment target when no separate design source exists.
5. When the adjustment unit converges, proceed to Step 6 for that unit.

When the project-tier file declares no automated verification mechanism for an axis, ask the user to confirm the result manually, or use file-based comparison when a specification file is available.

Step 6: Quality Verification (per adjustment unit)

• Invoke quality-fixer-frontend using Agent tool
  • subagent_type: "dev-workflows-frontend:quality-fixer-frontend"
  • description: "Quality verification for adjustment unit"
  • Build the prompt by branch. Scope is always filesModified; task_file (when passed) is a supplementary hint that quality-fixer-frontend may use to read the document's "Quality Assurance Mechanisms" section.
    • Branch A (1-2 files): omit task_file. Pass filesModified: [list of files edited in this adjustment unit].
    • Branch B (3-5 files): pass task_file: <work plan path> (supplementary hint) AND filesModified: [list of files edited in this adjustment unit] (primary scope).
  • Example (Branch A): prompt: "filesModified: [src/components/Card/Card.tsx, src/components/Card/Card.module.css]. Run quality checks across the listed files."
  • Example (Branch B): prompt: "task_file: docs/plans/[plan-name].md. filesModified: [src/components/Card/Card.tsx, src/components/Card/Card.module.css]. Run quality checks across the listed files."
• Route the quality-fixer-frontend response by status:
  • approved → proceed to Step 7
  • stub_detected → return to Step 5 to complete the implementation for this unit, then re-invoke quality-fixer-frontend
  • blocked → read reason. When "Cannot determine due to unclear specification", surface blockingIssues[] to the user and stop. When "Execution prerequisites not met", surface missingPrerequisites[] with resolutionSteps to the user and stop

Step 7: Commit (per adjustment unit)

Commit the adjustment unit on quality approval. Include the affected files and any regenerated artifacts (CSS module typings, message catalog typings, etc.) flagged by ui-analyzer's generatedArtifacts section.

Then loop back to Step 5 for the next unit (Branch B work plan phase, or next file in Branch A) until all units are committed.

Completion Criteria

• External resource hearing executed (project-tier file written or update explicitly skipped)
• ui-analyzer returned a JSON output, including externalResources fetch_status per axis and candidateWriteSet
• Write set confirmed by the user before scale judgment
• Scale judgment applied to the confirmed write set; 6+ files or ADR conditions escalated to the design phase
• Branch A: adjustment context presented and confirmed; Branch B: work plan approved
• All adjustment units edited and verified using the project's declared verification mechanism (manual confirmation when no automated mechanism is declared)
• Each adjustment unit passed quality-fixer-frontend with explicit filesModified scoping
• Each adjustment unit committed

Output Example

Frontend adjustment completed.
- External resources: docs/project-context/external-resources.md (updated|unchanged)
- UI fact gathering: ui-analyzer focused on [N] components, [M] focus areas, external sources [fetched|partial|not_recorded]
- Scale: <1-2 files | 3-5 files>
- Work plan: <path | not required>
- Adjustment units committed: [count]
- Quality status: all passed