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Break a plan, spec, or PRD into independently-grabbable issues on the project issue tracker using tracer-bullet vertical slices.
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Plan a huge chunk of work — more than one agent session can hold — as a shared map of investigation tickets on your issue tracker, and resolve them one at a time until the way to the destination is clear.
Dispatch one work order to its delegate model via pi, then run the review gate and commit on pass. Use after /factory-prd has written orders and Guillaume confirmed the dispatch plan.
Intake a PRD and decompose it into dispatchable work orders under .factory/orders/. Use when Guillaume supplies a PRD, feature request, or asks to "run this through the factory".
Ship the current branch — validate, open a PR with a proof bundle, then either gate straight to production (auto lane) or post the preview URL and wait for Guillaume's approval (approval lane). Use when accepted work packages are committed and ready to release.
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| description | Break a plan, spec, or PRD into independently-grabbable issues on the project issue tracker using tracer-bullet vertical slices. |
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Break a plan into independently-grabbable issues using vertical slices (tracer bullets).
The issue tracker and triage label vocabulary should have been provided to you — run /setup-matt-pocock-skills if not.
Work from whatever is already in the conversation context. If the user passes an issue reference (issue number, URL, or path) as an argument, fetch it from the issue tracker and read its full body and comments.
If you have not already explored the codebase, do so to understand the current state of the code. Issue titles and descriptions should use the project's domain glossary vocabulary, and respect ADRs in the area you're touching.
Look for opportunities to prefactor the code to make the implementation easier. "Make the change easy, then make the easy change."
Break the plan into tracer bullet issues. Each issue is a thin vertical slice that cuts through ALL integration layers end-to-end, NOT a horizontal slice of one layer.
Present the proposed breakdown as a numbered list. For each slice, show:
Ask the user:
Iterate until the user approves the breakdown.
For each approved slice, publish a new issue to the issue tracker. Use the issue body template below. These issues are considered ready for AFK agents, so publish them with the correct triage label unless instructed otherwise.
Publish issues in dependency order (blockers first) so you can reference real issue identifiers. Where the tracker supports it, link each slice to its parent as a native sub-issue and wire each blocker as a native blocking edge (mechanics in the issue-tracker doc); the ## Parent and ## Blocked by body sections are the fallback otherwise.
A reference to the parent issue on the issue tracker (if the source was an existing issue, otherwise omit this section).
A concise description of this vertical slice. Describe the end-to-end behavior, not layer-by-layer implementation.
Avoid specific file paths or code snippets — they go stale fast. Exception: if the /prototype skill produced code that encodes a decision more precisely than prose can (state machine, reducer, schema, type shape), add a context pointer to where that prototype code lives rather than inlining it.
Or "None - can start immediately" if no blockers.
Do NOT close or modify any parent issue.
