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msd-core/docs/features/phase-planning.md
Tom Boucher 36375513b9 feat(#3840): generate docs/FEATURES.md from per-feature fragments (#3845)
* feat(#3840): generate docs/FEATURES.md from per-feature fragments

docs/FEATURES.md was hand-maintained, and every feature PR wrote into two
shared mutable cells: the '### N.' heading whose integer was hand-allocated at
authoring time, and the hand-maintained table of contents. Concurrent PRs all
picked the same next integer, and two PRs adding differently numbered features
still collided on the TOC. #3831 was renumbered 165 -> 166 -> 167 -> 168 across
successive rebases, each collision also costing a full matrix verification run
because the sha-keyed pass marker dies with the rebase.

Mechanism: one fragment per feature at docs/features/<slug>.md carrying
id/title/group (and an optional order) in frontmatter, consolidated by
scripts/gen-features.cjs --write|--check into a marker-delimited region of
docs/FEATURES.md that holds BOTH the TOC and every section body. Group headings
and their order are derived too - a group sorts by its lowest-ordered member -
so there is no shared registry to edit either; optional per-group prose lives in
docs/features/_groups/<slug>.md. A contributor adds exactly one new file.
Wired into regen:derived and lint:generated-sync alongside the eight existing
generators, matching gen-adr-index.cjs's CLI shape and typed-REASON reporting.

Migration froze all 168 existing numbers verbatim: identical section set,
identical order, identical bodies. Two defects found in the tree are fixed
inline rather than carried forward - the '## Related' block had been spliced
into the middle of the document, orphaning §142's Reference line, and four
inbound anchors were already broken on next (FEATURES.md#runtime-identity in
two files, and #143-spec-phase-edge-completeness-probe off by one). Since the
repo has no link checker, --check now validates every inbound
FEATURES.md#anchor by resolved target, so that class cannot ship silently
again; locale FEATURES.md files resolve elsewhere and stay out of scope.

Refs #3840

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(#3840): carry upstream §69 delta into its fragment and harden the generator

Review found section 69 missing '[--strict]' and REQ-STATE-05/06 versus
origin/next. Root cause was a stale base, not extraction loss: those lines
landed in 394bf384b (#3844) AFTER this branch forked at 63abcface, and
'git diff 63abcface origin/next -- docs/FEATURES.md' is exactly that hunk.
Merging origin/next auto-applied the hunk into the GENERATED region, which
--check immediately reported as stale; the delta is now carried in
docs/features/statemd-consistency-gates.md and regenerated from there.

--write is now fail-closed. It previously rendered the region even with
violations outstanding, warning only on stderr and exiting 0, so a
'--write && git commit' chain could commit a FEATURES.md carrying two
colliding sections. It now refuses and exits 1; --force is the explicit
override and says so in the report. The test that pinned the old behavior now
pins the refusal, plus the --force override and its scoping.

Marker forgery is rejected at two layers. A fragment body containing
'<!-- FEATURES:START' or '<!-- FEATURES:END' is a typed
body_forges_region_marker violation (fragments and group notes alike), and
spliceIntoFeatures anchors the end boundary with lastIndexOf instead of
indexOf, so a marker that reaches the document by any other route can only
make the generated region grow, never shrink. Matching is on marker PREFIXES,
so a decorated variant comment cannot slip past.

Symlinked corpus entries are refused with a typed dirent_not_regular_file
rather than read. A fork PR could otherwise commit docs/features/evil.md as a
symlink to any readable path and have the generator inline those bytes into
the committed docs/FEATURES.md on the next regen.

Equivalence re-verified with a method that cannot cancel out. The first
check extracted both operands with the same body-normalising helper, so
anything that helper dropped was dropped on both sides. The replacement runs
two independent passes: a global content-line multiset diff with no
per-section logic at all (0 gained, 19 lost, all 19 the stale hand-written
mini-TOC links this change deliberately deletes), and a per-section
byte-exact body diff carrying a coverage assertion that fails loudly per file
when the extractor accounts for fewer lines than the file contains. That
assertion caught two blind spots in the checker itself. 168/168 sections
present, order identical, one intended body difference (§142 regains the
Reference line orphaned by the misplaced '## Related' block).

Refs #3840

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(#3840): backfill changeset PR number

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: sim <sim@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 22:49:00 -04:00

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id, title, group
id title group
4 Phase Planning Core Features

Command: /gsd-plan-phase [N] [--auto] [--skip-research] [--skip-verify]

Purpose: Research the implementation domain and produce verified, atomic execution plans.

Requirements:

  • REQ-PLAN-01: System MUST spawn a phase researcher to investigate implementation approaches
  • REQ-PLAN-02: System MUST produce plans with 2-3 tasks each, sized for a single context window
  • REQ-PLAN-03: System MUST structure plans as XML with <task> elements containing name, files, action, verify, and done fields
  • REQ-PLAN-04: System MUST include read_first and acceptance_criteria sections in every plan
  • REQ-PLAN-05: System MUST run plan checker verification loop (up to 3 iterations) unless --skip-verify is set
  • REQ-PLAN-06: System MUST support --skip-research flag to bypass research phase
  • REQ-PLAN-07: System MUST prompt user to run /gsd-ui-phase if frontend phase detected and no UI-SPEC.md exists (UI safety gate)
  • REQ-PLAN-08: System MUST include Nyquist validation mapping when workflow.nyquist_validation is enabled
  • REQ-PLAN-09: System MUST verify all phase requirements are covered by at least one plan before planning completes (requirements coverage gate)
  • REQ-PLAN-10: System MUST support an optional <reversibility rating="reversible|costly|one-way"> element recording how costly a decision would be to undo, and MUST insert a checkpoint:decision before the task implementing a one-way decision unless --no-reversibility-gates is set (costly is flagged without blocking; reversible and unrated flow normally)

Produces:

Artifact Description
{phase}-RESEARCH.md Ecosystem research findings
{phase}-{N}-PLAN.md Atomic execution plans (2-3 tasks each)
{phase}-VALIDATION.md Test coverage mapping (Nyquist layer)

Plan Structure (XML):

<task type="auto">
  <name>Create login endpoint</name>
  <files>src/app/api/auth/login/route.ts</files>
  <action>
    Use jose for JWT. Validate credentials against users table.
    Return httpOnly cookie on success.
  </action>
  <verify>curl -X POST localhost:3000/api/auth/login returns 200 + Set-Cookie</verify>
  <done>Valid credentials return cookie, invalid return 401</done>
</task>

Plan Checker Verification (8 Dimensions):

  1. Requirement coverage — Plans address all phase requirements
  2. Task atomicity — Each task is independently committable
  3. Dependency ordering — Tasks sequence correctly
  4. File scope — No excessive file overlap between plans
  5. Verification commands — Each task has testable done criteria
  6. Context fit — Tasks fit within a single context window
  7. Gap detection — No missing implementation steps
  8. Nyquist compliance — Tasks have automated verify commands (when enabled)