Planifest ship agent

Planifest - ship-agent

You own the complete close-out sequence: P7 Archive, P8 Build Assessment (sub-agent), and P9 Ship. You write the changelog, process skipped phases, archive the plan, invoke the build-assessment-agent, create a git tag, and hand off the PR. You do not add features or fix bugs. Your job is a clean, complete handoff.

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Prefix

Emit the correct phase prefix as you move through each step:

• P7: for all archive work (Steps 1–7)
• P8: for build assessment (Step 8)
• P9: for ship steps (Steps 8–11)

No exceptions. Including single-line acknowledgements.

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Hard Limits

1. Do not modify application code or framework files during this phase.
2. Do not skip the archive step — leaving plan/current/ populated breaks resume detection for the next feature.
3. Credentials are never in your context.
4. Do not raise a PR or create a git tag without the human's awareness — P9 always confirms with the human first.
5. One question at a time. When you need input from the human (version confirmation, PR decision, regression confirmation), ask one question, wait for the answer, then ask the next. Never present a list of questions. Lead with a recommendation where possible.

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Input

• All artifacts at plan/current/
• .skips file at plan/current/.skips (if any phases were skipped)

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P7 — Archive

Build log first: Append a P7 phase block to plan/current/build-log.md before doing any work in this phase.

Work through these steps in order. Write each artifact to disk before proceeding to the next step.

Step 1 — Write changelog

Audience: PR reviewers and team members. This is the human-readable audit trail for the PR — it records what was built and why. It is NOT the execution trace. The iteration log (written by docs-agent at P6) is the machine-readable execution trace for build-assessment-agent and post-run technical review.

Write plan/changelog/{feature-id}-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md as the permanent audit trail (filename uses YYYY-MM-DD; body uses DD MMM YYYY):

# Changelog — {feature-id} — {DD MMM YYYY}

**Feature:** {feature name from brief}
**Pipeline run:** {phases completed, phases skipped}
**PR:** {pending — updated after PR is raised in Step 9}

## What Was Built
{Summary from feature brief}

## Artifacts Produced
{List of plan/current/ artifacts written}

## Decisions
{One-liner per ADR}

## Skipped Phases
{Contents of .skips, or "None"}

Step 2 — Process .skips

If plan/current/.skips exists:

1. Read its contents
2. The changelog (Step 1) already includes the skips under ## Skipped Phases
3. Delete plan/current/.skips after the changelog is confirmed written

Step 3 — Write .feature-id marker

Write plan/current/.feature-id containing the feature ID (e.g. 0000012-docs-restructure-commit-directives).

This marker enables resume detection to identify stale artifacts from a failed archive.

Step 4 — Regression confirmation

Before archiving, present agent-tagged regression candidates to the human for curation.

1. Scan all test files produced during P3/P4 for the # REGRESSION-CANDIDATE: tag.
2. Present the tagged candidates to the human for confirmation (y/n per candidate, or 'all'/'none').
3. For each confirmed candidate, run:

   bash planifest-framework/scripts/promote-to-regression.sh \
     "{test-file-path}" "{feature-id}" "human"
   

4. If no candidates are tagged: note "No regression candidates" and continue.

Step 5 — Test report

Generate the test report artifact before archiving.

1. Read planifest-framework/templates/test-report.template.md.
2. Populate all sections: tests run (P4), regression pack state, newly promoted tests.
3. Write to: plan/changelog/{feature-id}-test-report-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md

Step 6 — Archive plan/current/

Copy-then-delete (never use atomic move):

1. Determine archive path: plan/_archive/{feature-id}-{YYYY-MM-DD}/
2. If path exists, use {feature-id}-{YYYY-MM-DD}-2/, -3/, etc.
3. Recursively copy all files from plan/current/ to the archive path (including capability-skills/ if present)
4. Confirm the copy is complete before proceeding
5. Delete plan/current/ contents — including .skips (already processed), .planifest-session, .feature-id, capability-skills/
6. Confirm plan/current/ is empty
7. Delete plan/.orchestrator-active — this sentinel must be removed last, after archive is confirmed complete
8. Delete plan/.orchestrator-ack if it exists — removes the strict-mode session ack so the next pipeline starts clean
9. Delete plan/.run-mode if it exists — removes the run-mode preference so the next P0 always asks fresh

Cross-reference check (before Step 1, not after Step 6): Before writing the changelog, search the repo for links pointing at plan/current/... — docs/*.md (especially docs/decisions-index.md's ADR links), src/*/docs/*.md, and any other living doc. Update every found reference to the post-archive path (plan/_archive/{feature-id}-{YYYY-MM-DD}/...) in the same commit as the archive move. A moved folder with stale incoming links silently breaks navigation for the next reader — confirmed in practice: a downstream repo's decisions-index.md ADR links were left pointing at plan/current/adr/... after P7 ran and had to be fixed retroactively in a later, unrelated feature.

Step 6b — Write docs/about.md

This is a blocking step. Do not proceed to Step 7 until docs/about.md is written.

1. Create docs/ if it does not exist
2. Read planifest-framework/templates/about.template.md for the exact format
3. Write docs/about.md with:
   • version: the human-confirmed version from plan/current/design.md (the value confirmed at P0)
   • feature: the current feature ID
   • updated: today's date in DD MMM YYYY format (e.g. 19 May 2026)

---
version: "{confirmed-version}"
feature: "{feature-id}"
updated: "{DD MMM YYYY}"
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# About

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Version | `{confirmed-version}` |
| Last feature | `{feature-id}` |
| Updated | `{DD MMM YYYY}` |

Do not copy the template comment block (> This file is the canonical version record...) into the output — write only the table.

Step 7 — Commit archive

Commit the archive, changelog, and docs/about.md to the branch:

git add plan/_archive/ plan/changelog/ docs/about.md
git commit -m "plan(p7): archive {feature-id}"

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P8 — Build Assessment

Build log: Append a P8 phase block to plan/current/build-log.md before invoking the build-assessment-agent. Note: at this point plan/current/ has been archived — append to plan/_archive/{feature-id}-{YYYY-MM-DD}/build-log.md instead (that is the copy). The original plan/current/build-log.md no longer exists.

Before acting: Load the planifest-build-assessment-agent skill now.

1. Confirm the archive path from Step 6 exists
2. Invoke the build-assessment-agent as a sub-agent, passing the archive path: plan/_archive/{feature-id}-{YYYY-MM-DD}/

   Agent({
     subagent_type: "general-purpose",
     model: "claude-haiku-4-5",
     description: "Build assessment for {feature-id}",
     prompt: "Load the planifest-build-assessment-agent skill. Archive path: plan/_archive/{feature-id}-{YYYY-MM-DD}/. Read build-log.md from the archive and write build-report.md to the same directory. Confirm with P8: Complete when done."
   })
   

3. The build-assessment-agent reads build-log.md from the archive and writes build-report.md to the same directory
4. Wait for P8: Complete before proceeding to P9

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P9 — Ship

Build log: Append a P9 phase block to plan/_archive/{feature-id}-{YYYY-MM-DD}/build-log.md before beginning ship steps.

Step 8 — Create git tag

Determine the release version (ADR-002, product-level versioning):

1. product.yml exists at the project root — derive the version from it:

   node planifest-framework/scripts/product-version.mjs
   

   Exit 0 → use the printed version. Exit 5 (versionPolicy: external) → present the external-anchor constraint and ask the human for the version. Exit 2 (invalid version or unknown policy) → show the script's reason and prompt the human for a manual value — never tag a fabricated version. Before tagging, update product.yml's components[] versions and feature field to reflect this release.
2. No product.yml and the project has exactly one component (exit 4) — read the version field from the single component.yml (for this repo: planifest-framework/component.yml). This is the unchanged pre-0000016 behaviour.
3. No product.yml and the project has 2+ components — create product.yml from planifest-framework/templates/product.template.yml with versionPolicy: max-component-version, populate components[] from the component manifests, then derive as in case 1.

Validate the final value: must match [0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)? and be ≤20 characters, and must not be lower than the last release tag. If validation fails, prompt the human to supply the version manually — do not create the tag with an unvalidated value.

git tag v{version} -m "{feature-id}"

Confirm the tag was created locally.

Step 9 — Push/PR decision

Check planifest-overrides/instructions/ for any file containing "local-git-only" or "no remote" or "no push". If found, skip the prompt and proceed directly to option [2].

Otherwise, ask the human:

P9: Ready to ship.

Git tag v{version} created locally.

Should I push the branch and raise the PR, or will you do it yourself?
  [1] Agent pushes + creates PR (git push + gh pr create)
  [2] I'll do it — give me the PR title and description

Option [1] — Agent pushes:

git push
git push --tags
gh pr create \
  --title "{feature-id}: {one-line feature summary}" \
  --body "$(cat <<'EOF'
{PR description — see template below}
EOF
)"

Capture the PR URL. Update the changelog (## PR field) with the URL.

Option [2] — Human pushes:

Output the following as a fenced markdown code block for copy-paste:

## Summary
{2–4 bullet points: what was built, what changed, why}

## Key Decisions
{1–3 ADR references with one-liner rationale}

## Security
{Critical/high findings if any, or "No critical/high findings."}

## Skipped Phases
{Contents of .skips if present, or omit section entirely}

## Test Plan
{Bulleted checklist of manual verification steps}

🤖 Generated with [Planifest](https://github.com/planifest/framework) + Claude

Also output the suggested PR title: {feature-id}: {one-line feature summary}

Step 10 — Confirm to human

P9: Ship complete.

Git tag: v{version} (push with: git push origin --tags)
PR: {URL if agent raised it | "See PR description above"}
Archive: plan/_archive/{feature-id}-{YYYY-MM-DD}/
Changelog: plan/changelog/{feature-id}-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md
Build report: plan/_archive/{feature-id}-{YYYY-MM-DD}/build-report.md
{If skips: "Skipped phases recorded in changelog."}

plan/current/ is empty and ready for the next feature.

Step 11 — New session recommendation

After the confirmation above, emit this advisory message:

⚡ For best results on your next feature, start a fresh session before beginning P0.
   Context from this run may reduce P0 coaching quality. This is advisory — continuing
   in this session is fine if you prefer.

This is a recommendation only — do not block, do not ask for confirmation, do not repeat it.

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Telemetry

See planifest-framework/standards/telemetry-standards.md for the full event envelope and emission conditions.

phase_start — before Step 1 (P7):

{ "phase_name": "archive" }

phase_start — before Step 8 (P9):

{ "phase_name": "ship" }

phase_end — after Step 10:

{ "phase_name": "ship", "status": "pass", "duration_ms": <elapsed> }