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Tom Boucher b2534e8a05 feat(plan-phase): chunked mode + filesystem fallback for Windows stdio hang (#2499)
* feat(plan-phase): chunked mode + filesystem fallback for Windows stdio hang (#2310)

Addresses the 2026-04-16 Windows incident where gsd-planner wrote all 5
PLAN.md files to disk but Task() never returned, hanging the orchestrator
for 30+ minutes. Two mitigations:

1. Filesystem fallback (steps 9a, 11a): when Task() returns with an
   empty/truncated response but PLAN.md files exist on disk, surface a
   recoverable prompt (Accept plans / Retry planner / Stop) instead of
   silently failing. Directly addresses the post-restart recovery path.

2. Chunked mode (--chunked flag / workflow.plan_chunked config): splits the
   single long-lived planner Task into a short outline Task (~2 min) followed
   by N short per-plan Tasks (~3-5 min each). Each plan is committed
   individually for crash resilience. A hang loses one plan, not all of them.
   Resume detection skips plans already on disk on re-run.

RCA confirmed: task state mtime 14:29 vs PLAN.md writes 14:32-14:52 =
subagent completed normally, IPC return was dropped by Windows stdio deadlock.
Neither mitigation fixes the root cause (requires upstream Task() timeout
support); both bound damage and enable recovery.

New reference file planner-chunked.md keeps OUTLINE COMPLETE / PLAN COMPLETE
return formats out of gsd-planner.md (which sits at 46K near its size limit).

Closes #2310

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(plan-phase): address CodeRabbit review comments on #2499

- docs/CONFIGURATION.md: add workflow.plan_chunked to full JSON schema example
- plan-phase.md step 8.5.1: validate PLAN-OUTLINE.md with grep for OUTLINE
  COMPLETE marker before reusing (not just file existence)
- plan-phase.md step 8.5.2: validate per-plan PLAN.md has YAML frontmatter
  (head -1 grep for ---) before skipping in resume path
- plan-phase.md: add language tags (text/javascript/bash) to bare fenced
  code blocks in steps 8.5, 9a, 11a (markdownlint MD040)
- Rejected: commit_docs gate on per-plan commits (gsd-sdk query commit
  already respects commit_docs internally — comment was a false positive)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(plan-phase): route Accept-plans through step 9 PLANNING COMPLETE handling

Honors --skip-verify / plan_checker_enabled=false in 9a fallback path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-21 08:40:39 -04:00

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# Chunked Mode Return Formats
Used when `plan-phase` spawns `gsd-planner` with `CHUNKED_MODE=true` (triggered by `--chunked`
flag or `workflow.plan_chunked: true` config). Splits the single long-lived planner Task into
shorter-lived Tasks to bound the blast radius of Windows stdio hangs.
## Modes
### outline-only
Write **only** `{PHASE_DIR}/{PADDED_PHASE}-PLAN-OUTLINE.md`. Do not write any PLAN.md files.
Return:
```markdown
## OUTLINE COMPLETE
**Phase:** {phase-name}
**Plans:** {N} plan(s) in {M} wave(s)
| Plan ID | Objective | Wave | Depends On | Requirements |
|---------|-----------|------|-----------|-------------|
| {padded_phase}-01 | [brief objective] | 1 | none | REQ-001, REQ-002 |
| {padded_phase}-02 | [brief objective] | 1 | none | REQ-003 |
```
The orchestrator reads this table, then spawns one single-plan Task per row.
### single-plan
Write **exactly one** `{PHASE_DIR}/{plan_id}-PLAN.md`. Do not write any other plan files.
Return:
```markdown
## PLAN COMPLETE
**Plan:** {plan-id}
**Objective:** {brief}
**File:** {PHASE_DIR}/{plan-id}-PLAN.md
**Tasks:** {N}
```
The orchestrator verifies the file exists on disk after each return, commits it, then moves
to the next plan entry from the outline.
## Resume Behaviour
If the orchestrator detects that `PLAN-OUTLINE.md` already exists (from a prior interrupted
run), it skips the outline-only Task and goes directly to single-plan Tasks, skipping any
`{plan_id}-PLAN.md` files that already exist on disk.