ss-tools/.kilocode/workflows/speckit.plan.md

---
description: Execute the implementation planning workflow using the plan template to generate design artifacts.
handoffs: 
  - label: Create Tasks
    agent: speckit.tasks
    prompt: Break the plan into tasks
    send: true
  - label: Create Checklist
    agent: speckit.checklist
    prompt: Create a checklist for the following domain...
---

## User Input

```text
$ARGUMENTS
```

You **MUST** consider the user input before proceeding (if not empty).

## Outline

1. **Setup**: Run `.specify/scripts/bash/setup-plan.sh --json` from repo root and parse JSON for FEATURE_SPEC, IMPL_PLAN, SPECS_DIR, BRANCH. For single quotes in args like "I'm Groot", use escape syntax: e.g 'I'\''m Groot' (or double-quote if possible: "I'm Groot").

2. **Load context**: Read `.ai/ROOT.md` and `.ai/PROJECT_MAP.md` to understand the project structure and navigation. Then read required standards: `.ai/standards/constitution.md` and `.ai/standards/semantics.md`. Load IMPL_PLAN template.

3. **Execute plan workflow**: Follow the structure in IMPL_PLAN template to:
   - Fill Technical Context (mark unknowns as "NEEDS CLARIFICATION")
   - Fill Constitution Check section from constitution
   - Evaluate gates (ERROR if violations unjustified)
   - Phase 0: Generate `research.md` (resolve all NEEDS CLARIFICATION)
   - Phase 1: Generate `data-model.md`, `contracts/`, `quickstart.md`
   - Phase 1: Generate global ADR artifacts and connect them to the plan
   - Phase 1: Update agent context by running the agent script
   - Re-evaluate Constitution Check post-design

4. **Stop and report**: Command ends after Phase 2 planning. Report branch, IMPL_PLAN path, generated artifacts, and ADR decisions created.

## Phases

### Phase 0: Outline & Research

1. **Extract unknowns from Technical Context** above:
   - For each NEEDS CLARIFICATION → research task
   - For each dependency → best practices task
   - For each integration → patterns task

2. **Generate and dispatch research agents**:

   ```text
   For each unknown in Technical Context:
     Task: "Research {unknown} for {feature context}"
   For each technology choice:
     Task: "Find best practices for {tech} in {domain}"
   ```

3. **Consolidate findings** in `research.md` using format:
   - Decision: [what was chosen]
   - Rationale: [why chosen]
   - Alternatives considered: [what else evaluated]

**Output**: `research.md` with all NEEDS CLARIFICATION resolved

### Phase 1: Design, ADRs & Contracts

**Prerequisites:** `research.md` complete

0. **Validate Design against UX Reference**:
   - Check if the proposed architecture supports the latency, interactivity, and flow defined in `ux_reference.md`.
   - **Linkage**: Ensure key UI states from `ux_reference.md` map to Component Contracts (`@UX_STATE`).
   - **CRITICAL**: If the technical plan compromises the UX (e.g. "We can't do real-time validation"), you **MUST STOP** and warn the user.

1. **Extract entities from feature spec** → `data-model.md`:
   - Entity name, fields, relationships, validation rules.

2. **Generate Global ADRs (Decision Memory Root Layer)**:
   - Read `spec.md`, `research.md`, and the technical context to identify repo-shaping decisions: storage, auth pattern, framework boundaries, integration patterns, deployment assumptions, failure strategy.
   - For each durable architectural choice, emit a standalone semantic ADR block using `[DEF:DecisionId:ADR]`.
   - Every ADR block MUST include:
     - `@COMPLEXITY: 3` or `4` depending on blast radius
     - `@PURPOSE`
     - `@RATIONALE`
     - `@REJECTED`
     - `@RELATION` back to the originating spec/research/plan boundary or target module family
   - Preferred destinations:
     - `docs/architecture.md` for cross-cutting repository decisions
     - feature-local design docs when the decision is feature-scoped
     - root module headers only when the decision scope is truly local
   - **Hard Gate**: do not continue to task decomposition until the blocking global decisions have been materialized as ADR nodes.
   - **Anti-Regression Goal**: a later orchestrator must be able to read these ADRs and avoid creating tasks for rejected branches.

3. **Design & Verify Contracts (Semantic Protocol)**:
   - **Drafting**: Define semantic headers, metadata, and closing anchors for all new modules strictly from `.ai/standards/semantics.md`.
   - **Complexity Classification**: Classify each contract with `@COMPLEXITY: [1|2|3|4|5]` or `@C:`. Treat `@TIER` only as a legacy compatibility hint and never as the primary rule source.
   - **Adaptive Contract Requirements**:
     - **Complexity 1**: anchors only; `@PURPOSE` optional.
     - **Complexity 2**: require `@PURPOSE`.
     - **Complexity 3**: require `@PURPOSE` and `@RELATION`; UI also requires `@UX_STATE`.
     - **Complexity 4**: require `@PURPOSE`, `@RELATION`, `@PRE`, `@POST`, `@SIDE_EFFECT`; Python modules must define a meaningful `logger.reason()` / `logger.reflect()` path or equivalent belief-state mechanism.
     - **Complexity 5**: require full level-4 contract plus `@DATA_CONTRACT` and `@INVARIANT`; Python modules must require `belief_scope`; UI modules must define UX contracts including `@UX_STATE`, `@UX_FEEDBACK`, `@UX_RECOVERY`, and `@UX_REACTIVITY`.
   - **Decision-Memory Propagation**:
     - If a module/function/component realizes or is constrained by an ADR, add local `@RATIONALE` and `@REJECTED` guardrails before coding begins.
     - Use `@RELATION: IMPLEMENTS ->[AdrId]` when the contract realizes the ADR.
     - Use `@RELATION: DEPENDS_ON ->[AdrId]` when the contract is merely constrained by the ADR.
     - Record known LLM traps directly in the contract header so the implementer inherits the guardrail from the start.
   - **Relation Syntax**: Write dependency edges in canonical GraphRAG form: `@RELATION: [PREDICATE] ->[TARGET_ID]`.
   - **Context Guard**: If a target relation, DTO, required dependency, or decision rationale cannot be named confidently, stop generation and emit `[NEED_CONTEXT: target]` instead of inventing placeholders.
   - **Testing Contracts**: Add `@TEST_CONTRACT`, `@TEST_SCENARIO`, `@TEST_FIXTURE`, `@TEST_EDGE`, and `@TEST_INVARIANT` when the design introduces audit-critical or explicitly test-governed contracts, especially for Complexity 5 boundaries.
   - **Self-Review**:
     - *Complexity Fit*: Does each contract include exactly the metadata and contract density required by its complexity level?
     - *Completeness*: Do `@PRE`/`@POST`, `@SIDE_EFFECT`, `@DATA_CONTRACT`, UX tags, and decision-memory tags cover the edge cases identified in Research and UX Reference?
     - *Connectivity*: Do `@RELATION` tags form a coherent graph using canonical `@RELATION: [PREDICATE] ->[TARGET_ID]` syntax?
     - *Compliance*: Are all anchors properly opened and closed, and does the chosen comment syntax match the target medium?
     - *Belief-State Requirements*: Do Complexity 4/5 Python modules explicitly account for `logger.reason()`, `logger.reflect()`, and `belief_scope` requirements?
     - *ADR Continuity*: Does every blocking architectural decision have a corresponding ADR node and at least one downstream guarded contract?
   - **Output**: Write verified contracts to `contracts/modules.md`.

4. **Simulate Contract Usage**:
   - Trace one key user scenario through the defined contracts to ensure data flow continuity.
   - If a contract interface mismatch is found, fix it immediately.
   - Verify that no traced path accidentally realizes an alternative already named in any ADR `@REJECTED` tag.

5. **Generate API contracts**:
   - Output OpenAPI/GraphQL schema to `/contracts/` for backend-frontend sync.

6. **Agent context update**:
   - Run `.specify/scripts/bash/update-agent-context.sh kilocode`
   - These scripts detect which AI agent is in use
   - Update the appropriate agent-specific context file
   - Add only new technology from current plan
   - Preserve manual additions between markers

**Output**: `data-model.md`, `/contracts/*`, `quickstart.md`, ADR artifact(s), agent-specific file

## Key rules

- Use absolute paths
- ERROR on gate failures or unresolved clarifications
- Do not hand off to [`speckit.tasks`](.kilocode/workflows/speckit.tasks.md) until blocking ADRs exist and rejected branches are explicit