Aa new project

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Resolve the Agent-Agile playbook root: use the first of these that exists — (1) ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/playbooks, (2) ./.claude/agent-agile/playbooks, (3) ./.agents/agent-agile/playbooks, (4) ~/.claude/agent-agile/playbooks, (5) ~/.agents/agent-agile/playbooks, (6) ./playbooks.

Read playbooks/planner.md sections The 8 intake questions, Pushback patterns, Drafting the plan, Research fan-out and the risk register, Slicing epics into stories, The worker-readiness test, and Extracting PREREQS, in full, and follow them exactly — do NOT re-derive or improvise the system.

Intake

If .planning/IDEA.md exists, read it and, per planner.md's Grill → intake mapping, confirm the pre-filled answers back to the user instead of re-asking them. Ask only the questions the grill didn't answer, plus the three it never answers (hard constraints, riskiest unknown, review-batch appetite) — always fresh. If IDEA.md does not exist, ask all 8 questions from scratch, one at a time, applying the pushback patterns to every thin answer before moving on.

After the eighth answer and before writing any files, deliver the split statement exactly as defined at the end of planner.md's The 8 intake questions — the "my part / your part" narration plus the process preview. It is a required step, not optional color.

Drafting

Draft the plan inline in this conversation, following Drafting the plan — this is the default; do not spawn a separate agent for this step unless the user asks for it. Produce, in order:

1. .planning/PROJECT.md from playbooks/templates/PROJECT.md.
2. .planning/ROADMAP.md from playbooks/templates/ROADMAP.md — every epic, riskiest first, one-line demo sentences; only the current epic (Epic 1) gets full detail.
3. If the roadmap draft is multi-epic, run Research fan-out and the risk register exactly as written (including its off-ramp): spawn aa-researcher-domain and aa-researcher-ecosystem as parallel fresh subagents with the model configured for the smart tier in .planning/CONFIG.md (ask for tiers now if CONFIG.md doesn't exist yet), synthesize .planning/RESEARCH.md from playbooks/templates/RESEARCH.md, then revise the roadmap draft against the risk register — [fixture: …] tags on epic lines, Epic 1/2 riskiest-first re-examination.
4. Slice Epic 1 into story cards per Slicing epics into stories, writing each from playbooks/templates/STORY.md — including one fixture story per [fixture: …] tag on Epic 1. Apply The worker-readiness test to every card before calling it done.
5. .planning/PREREQS.md from playbooks/templates/PREREQS.md per Extracting PREREQS, status pending for every row.
6. .planning/CONFIG.md from playbooks/templates/CONFIG.md — ask the user for smart_tier, cheap_tier, gate, and commercial if not already set.
7. .planning/STATE.md from playbooks/templates/STATE.md, Phase intake, pointing at PROJECT.md, ROADMAP.md, and Epic 1's stories.

Handoff

If the roadmap has more than one epic, tell the user the plan must go through the panel before anything runs, and instruct them to run /aa-panel next — do not start execution first. If the roadmap is a single throwaway epic, the panel may be skipped — see the gate rule in playbooks/critics.md section Panel protocol; say so and name the next command instead.