msd-core/get-shit-done/workflows/plan-review-convergence.md

Cross-AI plan convergence loop — automates the manual chain: gsd-plan-phase N → gsd-review N --codex → gsd-plan-phase N --reviews → gsd-review N --codex → ... Each step runs inside an isolated Agent that calls the corresponding Skill. Orchestrator only does: init, loop control, HIGH count check, stall detection, escalation.

<required_reading> Read all files referenced by the invoking prompt's execution_context before starting.

@$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/references/revision-loop.md @$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/references/gates.md @$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/references/agent-contracts.md </required_reading>

1. Parse and Normalize Arguments

Extract from $ARGUMENTS: phase number, reviewer flags (--codex, --gemini, --claude, --opencode, --all), --max-cycles N, --text, --ws.

PHASE=$(echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -oE '[0-9]+\.?[0-9]*' | head -1)

REVIEWER_FLAGS=""
echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -q '\-\-codex' && REVIEWER_FLAGS="$REVIEWER_FLAGS --codex"
echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -q '\-\-gemini' && REVIEWER_FLAGS="$REVIEWER_FLAGS --gemini"
echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -q '\-\-claude' && REVIEWER_FLAGS="$REVIEWER_FLAGS --claude"
echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -q '\-\-opencode' && REVIEWER_FLAGS="$REVIEWER_FLAGS --opencode"
echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -q '\-\-all' && REVIEWER_FLAGS="$REVIEWER_FLAGS --all"
if [ -z "$REVIEWER_FLAGS" ]; then REVIEWER_FLAGS="--codex"; fi

MAX_CYCLES=$(echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -oE '\-\-max-cycles\s+[0-9]+' | awk '{print $2}')
if [ -z "$MAX_CYCLES" ]; then MAX_CYCLES=3; fi

GSD_WS=""
echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -qE '\-\-ws\s+\S+' && GSD_WS=$(echo "$ARGUMENTS" | grep -oE '\-\-ws\s+\S+')

2. Initialize

INIT=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" init plan-phase "$PHASE")
if [[ "$INIT" == @file:* ]]; then INIT=$(cat "${INIT#@file:}"); fi

Parse JSON for: phase_dir, phase_number, padded_phase, phase_name, has_plans, plan_count, commit_docs, text_mode, response_language.

If response_language is set: All user-facing output should be in {response_language}.

Set TEXT_MODE=true if --text is present in $ARGUMENTS OR text_mode from init JSON is true. When TEXT_MODE is active, replace every AskUserQuestion call with a plain-text numbered list and ask the user to type their choice number.

3. Validate Phase + Pre-flight Gate

PHASE_INFO=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" roadmap get-phase "${PHASE}")

If found is false: Error with available phases. Exit.

Display startup banner:

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 GSD ► PLAN CONVERGENCE — Phase {phase_number}
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

 Reviewers: {REVIEWER_FLAGS}
 Max cycles: {MAX_CYCLES}

4. Initial Planning (if no plans exist)

If has_plans is true: Skip to step 5. Display: Plans found: {plan_count} PLAN.md files — skipping initial planning.

If has_plans is false:

Display: ◆ No plans found — spawning initial planning agent...

Agent(
  description="Initial planning Phase {PHASE}",
  prompt="Run /gsd:plan-phase for Phase {PHASE}.

Execute: Skill(skill='gsd-plan-phase', args='{PHASE} {GSD_WS}')

Complete the full planning workflow. Do NOT return until planning is complete and PLAN.md files are committed.",
  mode="auto"
)

After agent returns, verify plans were created:

PLAN_COUNT=$(ls ${phase_dir}/${padded_phase}-*-PLAN.md 2>/dev/null | wc -l)

If PLAN_COUNT == 0: Error — initial planning failed. Exit.

Display: Initial planning complete: ${PLAN_COUNT} PLAN.md files created.

5. Convergence Loop

Initialize loop variables:

cycle = 0
prev_high_count = Infinity

5a. Review (Spawn Agent)

Increment cycle.

Display: ◆ Cycle {cycle}/{MAX_CYCLES} — spawning review agent...

Agent(
  description="Cross-AI review Phase {PHASE} cycle {cycle}",
  prompt="Run /gsd:review for Phase {PHASE}.

Execute: Skill(skill='gsd-review', args='--phase {PHASE} {REVIEWER_FLAGS} {GSD_WS}')

Complete the full review workflow. Do NOT return until REVIEWS.md is committed.",
  mode="auto"
)

After agent returns, verify REVIEWS.md exists:

REVIEWS_FILE=$(ls ${phase_dir}/${padded_phase}-REVIEWS.md 2>/dev/null)

If REVIEWS_FILE is empty: Error — review agent did not produce REVIEWS.md. Exit.

5b. Check for HIGH Concerns

HIGH_COUNT=$(grep -c '\*\*HIGH' "${REVIEWS_FILE}" 2>/dev/null || true)
HIGH_COUNT=${HIGH_COUNT:-0}
HIGH_LINES=$(grep -B0 -A1 '\*\*HIGH' "${REVIEWS_FILE}" 2>/dev/null)

If HIGH_COUNT == 0 (converged):

node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" state planned-phase --phase "${PHASE}" --name "${phase_name}" --plans "${PLAN_COUNT}"

Display:

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 GSD ► CONVERGENCE COMPLETE ✓
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

 Phase {phase_number} converged in {cycle} cycle(s).
 No HIGH concerns remaining.

 REVIEWS.md: {REVIEWS_FILE}
 Next: /gsd:execute-phase {PHASE}

Exit — convergence achieved.

If HIGH_COUNT > 0: Continue to 5c.

5c. Stall Detection + Escalation Check

Display: ◆ Cycle {cycle}/{MAX_CYCLES} — {HIGH_COUNT} HIGH concerns found

Stall detection: If HIGH_COUNT >= prev_high_count:

⚠ Convergence stalled — HIGH concern count not decreasing
  ({HIGH_COUNT} HIGH concerns, previous cycle had {prev_high_count})

Max cycles check: If cycle >= MAX_CYCLES:

If TEXT_MODE is true, present as plain-text numbered list:

Plan convergence did not complete after {MAX_CYCLES} cycles.
{HIGH_COUNT} HIGH concerns remain:

{HIGH_LINES}

How would you like to proceed?

1. Proceed anyway — Accept plans with remaining HIGH concerns and move to execution
2. Manual review — Stop here, review REVIEWS.md and address concerns manually

Enter number:

Otherwise use AskUserQuestion:

AskUserQuestion([
  {
    question: "Plan convergence did not complete after {MAX_CYCLES} cycles. {HIGH_COUNT} HIGH concerns remain:\n\n{HIGH_LINES}\n\nHow would you like to proceed?",
    header: "Convergence",
    multiSelect: false,
    options: [
      { label: "Proceed anyway", description: "Accept plans with remaining HIGH concerns and move to execution" },
      { label: "Manual review", description: "Stop here — review REVIEWS.md and address concerns manually" }
    ]
  }
])

If "Proceed anyway": Display final status and exit. If "Manual review":

Review the concerns in: {REVIEWS_FILE}

To replan manually:  /gsd:plan-phase {PHASE} --reviews
To restart loop:     /gsd:plan-review-convergence {PHASE} {REVIEWER_FLAGS}

Exit workflow.

5d. Replan (Spawn Agent)

If under max cycles:

Update prev_high_count = HIGH_COUNT.

Display: ◆ Spawning replan agent with review feedback...

Agent(
  description="Replan Phase {PHASE} with review feedback cycle {cycle}",
  prompt="Run /gsd:plan-phase with --reviews for Phase {PHASE}.

Execute: Skill(skill='gsd-plan-phase', args='{PHASE} --reviews --skip-research {GSD_WS}')

This will replan incorporating cross-AI review feedback from REVIEWS.md.
Do NOT return until replanning is complete and updated PLAN.md files are committed.

IMPORTANT: When gsd-plan-phase outputs '## PLANNING COMPLETE', that means replanning is done. Return at that point.",
  mode="auto"
)

After agent returns → go back to step 5a (review again).

<success_criteria>

• Initial planning via Agent → Skill("gsd-plan-phase") if no plans exist
• Review via Agent → Skill("gsd-review") — isolated, not inline
• Replan via Agent → Skill("gsd-plan-phase --reviews") — isolated, not inline
• Orchestrator only does: init, loop control, grep HIGHs, stall detection, escalation
• Each Agent fully completes its Skill before returning
• Loop exits on: no HIGH concerns (converged) OR max cycles (escalation)
• Stall detection reported when HIGH count not decreasing
• STATE.md updated on convergence completion </success_criteria>