Four product surfaces told the agent to call start_planning FIRST for any
"non-trivial" work, while a fifth — the milestone bullet four lines up in the
same file — had the criterion right: use one when the work has an arc. The
loudest surface won, so sessions wrapped bug fixes and one-file changes in
milestones that never meant anything.
Mandating one project shape is what rule #115 forbids: some projects are
milestone-shaped, others are a flat task list and always will be.
Now the arc test is stated ONCE in full, in writing-plans, along with what to
do when there is no arc (a task, driven by status and work-logs). The other
surfaces name it and defer:
- writing-plans/SKILL.md gains a "first decide whether this work wants a plan"
section; its frontmatter trigger is the arc, not "non-trivial"
- using-scribe reflex #4 points at the skill instead of restating it
- server.py's Plan bullet adopts the milestone bullet's own criterion
- server.py's planning paragraph drops from 11 lines to 6: it keeps the claim
MCP instructions should make (a plan's HOME is a milestone, not a local .md)
and drops the how, which the skill carries
- start_planning's docstring gains the when
Also removed "call start_planning FIRST — before any brainstorming, design, or
plan-writing skill runs." That was the server asserting priority over the skill
layer. Tools describe what they do; skills decide when they apply.
The structural point outlasts the wording: a surface that restates a rule is a
surface that will eventually contradict it, and nothing checks prose against
prose.
Closes#2322.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaYUaouG9jjhATyuxCKrQs
Audit of the plugin + MCP surface after milestone-as-plan (T3): every path
that could still create a kind=plan task or describe the old plan-task model
is now aligned with the hard-retire decision.
- create_task (MCP + REST POST /api/tasks): reject kind=plan with a message
pointing to start_planning. The 'plan' enum value stays valid so legacy
plan-tasks remain readable; update paths never touch kind, so they round-trip.
- create_task / get_task docstrings: 'plan' dropped from creatable kinds;
get_task's rules-augmentation noted as legacy-only (get_milestone for new plans).
- skills/writing-plans: rewritten for milestone-as-plan (body = design, steps =
child tasks, get_milestone to read back).
- skills/using-scribe: "plans live in milestones via start_planning", not kind=plan.
- TaskEditorView Kind selector: offers Work/Issue; "Plan (legacy)" shown only
when the loaded task is already kind=plan (display round-trip).
- test: create_task rejects kind=plan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Superpowers was uninstalled but its replacements were never built (only
using-scribe shipped) — a live functional hole. Author the 4 the operator
wants back, each integrated with Scribe's toolset rather than generic copies:
- writing-plans -> start_planning / kind=plan task, not local .md
- systematic-debugging -> capture issue (symptom->cause->fix, tag issue) on resolve
- verification -> log results to the task work-log; honest done
- brainstorming -> recall prior thinking first; capture the decision note
Skipped TDD + receiving-code-review per operator (well-covered by Claude/them).
Manifest + using-scribe list now advertise only the 4 that ship. Remove the
stale docs/superpowers/*.md reference in _INSTRUCTIONS (superpowers is gone).
Plugin 0.1.6 -> 0.1.7.
Refs plan 821 (Phase 3 of 755).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>