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Draft edits to existing specs (or a new spec if no existing one fits) from the card description
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Maintain a support docs pack — dedup, length budgets, and no splintering — and land changes as a reviewed pull request. Use when a support thread, or a hand-off from Support assist, surfaces a new resolution, a correction to an existing one, or a deployment quirk worth recording. Not for ordinary code changes.
Run a support investigation as a suggest-and-interpret loop, never executing anything yourself — orient to the product's support pack and follow the signal with judgment. Use when someone asks for help triaging, investigating, or resolving an operational or support issue on a deployment. Not for feature-development cards (see investigate-and-fix and implement-this).
Run the Tamanu release-branch CUTOFF checks when preparing to cut a new release/X.YY branch: confirm the previous release's hotfixes are merged to main, reconcile the commits since the previous release against the "Merged to main" card list from Linear, and scan for data/reporting/schema changes. Use when the user is cutting a Tamanu release and wants to verify the codebase is ready, wants to check main against the previous release branch, or wants to reconcile commits with a Linear "Merged to main" column (they should paste the card list). Handles Tamanu's train-release model (release/X.YY branches vs vX.YY.Z patch tags) and the cherry-pick model where the same logical fix has different SHAs on different branches. Purely git-based — no live database or Canopy access needed. Not for verifying an existing release branch's hotfix integrity (see pre-release-checks) or for deciding which tests to run (see scope-tamanu-release-tests).
Check upgrade safety for a Tamanu upgrade that spans many versions: verify that every intermediate hotfix is included in the target version, and surface the new configuration/settings, data migrations, and FHIR rematerialisation impact the upgrade brings. Use when the user wants to check an upgrade from one Tamanu version to another (e.g. "check hotfixes from v2.31 to v2.47"), confirm no intermediate hotfix was dropped, or understand what config, migrations, and FHIR rework a multi-version jump requires. Handles Tamanu's train-release model (release/X.YY branches vs vX.YY.Z patch tags) and the cherry-pick model where the same logical fix has different SHAs on different branches. Purely git-based — no live database or Canopy access needed. Not for cutting a release (see release-cutoff-checks) or deciding which tests to run (see scope-tamanu-release-tests).
Run Tamanu pre-release verification checks: verify that hotfixes on the current release branch are merged forward to main, and that hotfixes from prior release branches are included in the current release. Use when the user wants to run "pre-release checks", verify hotfix integrity before cutting or shipping a Tamanu release, confirm a release/X.YY branch is safe to release, or check that no hotfix has been orphaned (left on neither main nor the current release). Handles Tamanu's train-release model (release/X.YY branches vs vX.YY.Z patch tags) and the cherry-pick model where the same logical fix has different SHAs on different branches. Purely git-based — no live database or Canopy access needed. Not for deciding which tests to run (see scope-tamanu-release-tests).
Draft or refine the project's PRD from the description and conversation
| name | draft-spec-changes |
| description | Draft edits to existing specs (or a new spec if no existing one fits) from the card description |
| label | Draft spec changes |
| pill-order | {"not-started":3,"specifying":2} |
| jockey-hint | Demote once spec drafts have already been produced in this conversation, unless the user signals they want another pass or the scope has materially shifted. |
| workhorse-version | 0.1.0 |
If you don't already have this card's context (title, identifier, description) — for instance when running outside Workhorse — establish it first by following .agents/docs/card-context.md.
Produce spec edits directly from the card description — no extended interview.
Read .agents/docs/spec-format.md first. It defines the writing conventions, the information-architecture rules, and the fold-vs-create-vs-split guidance you must follow. Every edit you make has to conform to it.
specs/ to understand the area structure.specs/{area}/{slug}.md if genuinely needed.Do NOT start by asking questions or exploring the codebase. Go straight to drafting. If the description is too thin for meaningful acceptance criteria, write what you can and list the gaps as open questions.
Generate mockups for any UI-facing specs as part of the draft. Before writing mockup HTML, follow the Design sourcing process from your system prompt: read the section's actual implementation first, then similar components, then cross-check against .workhorse/design/. Do not skip this reading pass.