| name | grace-plan |
| description | Read an approved GRACE 4 GraceChangeSpec and optional design context, then create a GraceChangePlan with assertions, scopes, tasks, and verification gates. |
Convert one approved active `GraceChangeSpec` into the executable `GraceChangePlan`; do not implement source code.
- Required: `.grace/changes/active/C-CHANGE-ID/spec.xml`
- Optional: sibling `design-context.xml`
- Current state: `.grace/context`, graph and verification indexes, and their routed documents
- Require `.grace/changes/active/C-CHANGE-ID/spec.xml` with `GraceChangeSpec`, status `approved`, and exactly one matching direct `C-*` wrapper.
- Refuse draft, rejected, cancelled, applied, or superseded specs.
- Treat optional `design-context.xml` as explanatory; `spec.xml` wins on conflict.
- Run `grace lint --path PROJECT --assertions current` before planning and surface stale or invalid active baselines.
<approved_plan_immutability>
- If
plan.xml already exists with status approved, stop before writing.
- Do not refresh
BaselineAssertions, TargetAssertions, DurableScope, ObservedWriteScope, or tasks in place.
- Create a new
C-* bundle and mark the old bundle superseded with an explicit replacement reference.
</approved_plan_immutability>
<must_do>
Produce plan.xml from references/change-plan-template.xml as draft unless the user explicitly approves the completed plan. Require a matching C-* wrapper, meaningful intent, non-empty machine-checkable baseline and target assertions, explicit durable and observed scopes, and unique acyclic T-NNN tasks. A scope with no writes must use an explicit <None /> marker; prose such as "none" is invalid. Every task has one Title, one DependsOn element listing zero or more predecessors as canonical comma-separated T-NNN values (for example <DependsOn>T-001, T-002</DependsOn>), non-empty acceptance criteria, and non-empty verification commands. Dependencies form a directed acyclic graph: list only true predecessors and never linearize independent tasks into a chain to express ordering. Surface stale-state and coexistence warnings, and reject unsupported scope glob syntax instead of guessing.
</must_do>
<command_phase_rules>
current is an active-baseline preflight and is valid only before observed writes begin.
baseline is the selected pre-edit gate, target is selected post-edit evidence, and final is the outer apply/archive gate owned by grace-execute.
MustPassCommand contains leaf project evidence such as tests, typecheck, build, format, or package checks. Never place grace lint, grace status, or another GRACE lifecycle command inside it.
- Never put
--assertions current in TargetAssertions or in task verification that runs after writes. Use selected target/final lint externally instead.
</command_phase_rules>
- Active-baseline preflight: `grace lint --path PROJECT --assertions current`
- Parallel safety: `grace lint --path PROJECT --parallel-preflight`
- Recommend `grace status --path PROJECT --json` after approval.
<hard_rules>
Do not implement code, silently approve a plan, overwrite an approved plan, or mutate current graph/verification artifacts while planning. Semantic anchors are canonical XML tags, never attributes.
</hard_rules>