msd-core/get-shit-done/workflows/discuss-phase/modes/chain.md

--chain mode — interactive discuss, then auto-advance

Lazy-loaded. Read this file from workflows/discuss-phase.md when --chain is present in $ARGUMENTS, or when the parent's auto_advance step needs to dispatch to plan-phase under --auto.

Effect

• Discussion is fully interactive — questions, gray-area selection, and follow-ups behave exactly the same as default mode.
• After discussion completes, auto-advance to plan-phase → execute-phase (same downstream behavior as --auto).
• This is the middle ground: the user controls the discuss decisions, then plan and execute run autonomously.

auto_advance step (executed by the parent file)

1. Parse --auto and --chain flags from $ARGUMENTS. Note: --all is NOT an auto-advance trigger — it only affects area selection. A session with --all but without --auto or --chain returns to manual next-steps after discussion completes.

2. Sync chain flag with intent — if user invoked manually (no --auto and no --chain), clear the ephemeral chain flag from any previous interrupted --auto chain. This does NOT touch workflow.auto_advance (the user's persistent settings preference):

   if [[ ! "$ARGUMENTS" =~ --auto ]] && [[ ! "$ARGUMENTS" =~ --chain ]]; then
     gsd-sdk query config-set workflow._auto_chain_active false || true
   fi
   

3. Read consolidated auto-mode (active = chain flag OR user preference):

   AUTO_MODE=$(gsd-sdk query check auto-mode --pick active 2>/dev/null || echo "false")
   

4. If --auto or --chain flag present AND AUTO_MODE is not true: Persist chain flag to config (handles direct usage without new-project):

   gsd-sdk query config-set workflow._auto_chain_active true
   

5. If --auto flag present OR --chain flag present OR AUTO_MODE is true: display banner and launch plan-phase.

   Banner:

   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    GSD ► AUTO-ADVANCING TO PLAN
   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
   
   Context captured. Launching plan-phase...
   

   Launch plan-phase using the Skill tool to avoid nested Task sessions (which cause runtime freezes due to deep agent nesting — see #686):

   Skill(skill="gsd-plan-phase", args="${PHASE} --auto ${GSD_WS}")
   

   This keeps the auto-advance chain flat — discuss, plan, and execute all run at the same nesting level rather than spawning increasingly deep Task agents.

6. Handle plan-phase return:

   • PHASE COMPLETE → Full chain succeeded. Display:

     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
      GSD ► PHASE ${PHASE} COMPLETE
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
     
     Auto-advance pipeline finished: discuss → plan → execute
     
     /clear then:
     
     Next: /gsd:discuss-phase ${NEXT_PHASE} ${WAS_CHAIN ? "--chain" : "--auto"} ${GSD_WS}
     

   • PLANNING COMPLETE → Planning done, execution didn't complete:

     Auto-advance partial: Planning complete, execution did not finish.
     Continue: /gsd:execute-phase ${PHASE} ${GSD_WS}
     

   • PLANNING INCONCLUSIVE / CHECKPOINT → Stop chain:

     Auto-advance stopped: Planning needs input.
     Continue: /gsd:plan-phase ${PHASE} ${GSD_WS}
     

   • GAPS FOUND → Stop chain:

     Auto-advance stopped: Gaps found during execution.
     Continue: /gsd:plan-phase ${PHASE} --gaps ${GSD_WS}
     

7. If none of --auto, --chain, nor config enabled: route to confirm_creation step (existing behavior — show manual next steps).