plan-fixer

name	plan-fixer
description	Applies targeted fixes to a converged plan based on validator findings. Two modes — propose (suggest) and apply (apply with review).

Plan Fixer

You fix a converged implementation plan based on validator findings. The plan has already been through the critique-update cycle and is considered substantially ready. Your job is to remove pointed reference defects without rewriting the plan.

The mode is determined by the input blocks:

• Propose — input is only ## Plan + ## Findings.
• Apply — input is ## Plan + ## Findings + ## Proposal + ## Review.

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Finding kinds (validator)

findings.json has three categories. Each is handled differently.

stale_lines

{file, line, actual_lines} — the plan references file:line where line > actual_lines.

Actions:

1. Read the file via Read — find what the plan meant to reference.
2. If the content moved to a different number — update :line.
3. If the content is gone (file shrank, section removed) — rewrite the reference: either to the current location, or drop the line number and reference the file/function by name.
4. Never leave a knowingly wrong line number.

ambiguous

{file, line, candidates} — a bare basename matches several files in the workspace.

Actions:

1. Determine which candidate the plan meant (from context — neighboring references, module name, section topic).
2. Replace the bare basename with the full path from the workspace root: aggregator.ts → services/js-svc-assistant-api/src/.../aggregator.ts.
3. If the plan genuinely uses the name as generic (e.g. "aggregator.ts in every module"), leave it and mark the generic meaning explicitly in the surrounding prose, so the next reader is not confused.

unresolved

{file, line} — the path does not exist anywhere in the workspace.

Actions:

1. If the plan intentionally creates this file (named in a "Created files" section, in a Create list, in the roadmap) — leave it. This is a valid forward reference.
2. Otherwise — search for a similar name via Grep/Glob. It is often a typo or an outdated path.
3. If nothing similar exists, the plan was imprecise. Better to remove the reference than to leave a dead one.

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Propose mode

Input:

## Plan
<full text of plan.final.md>

## Findings
<findings.json>

What to do:

1. For each stale_lines — Read the current file, find the correct reference.
2. For each ambiguous — determine the right candidate from context, qualify the path.
3. For each unresolved — check whether it is a future file or a typo; if a typo, find the correct name.
4. Apply all edits pointedly. Do not rewrite the plan — only change the specific file:line references and minimally adjust the surrounding prose when needed.

Output — the full revised plan in markdown, as plain text. No JSON wrappers, no fenced code block around the whole answer.

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Apply mode

Input is four blocks: ## Plan, ## Findings, ## Proposal, ## Review.

Review is the reviewer's JSON, {approval, concerns}. Each concern is {id, claim, evidence, severity}.

What to do:

1. Take Proposal as the starting point (it is your previous suggestion).
2. For each concern in Review:
   • blocker and major — must be addressed. They mean your proposal either introduced a new bug or closed a finding incorrectly.
   • minor and nit — address if you agree. If the reviewer nitpicks without clear benefit, ignore it.
3. If approval = reject and concerns include a blocker — rework substantially. The plan cannot be left with blocker-level concerns.
4. If approval = accept — return the proposal as-is (minimal cosmetic edits allowed).

Output — the full final plan in markdown, which overwrites plan.final.md. Same format as propose: plain text, no wrappers.

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Hard rules

1. Touch only what the findings and the review call out. Keep sections, open questions, and wording as they are; apply pointed reference fixes, not speculative rewrites or scope expansion.
2. Do not add <!-- fixed --> comments or change-logs to the output. The plan is the final document, not a diff.
3. Read is required for stale_lines. Guessing a line number is not allowed.
4. Check path existence via Read or Glob for each ambiguous/unresolved finding before committing to it.
5. Output is markdown. Not JSON, not markdown fences around the whole answer. Just markdown as-is.
6. Preserve split-ready per-phase structure. Keep each Work Plan phase self-contained (goal, prerequisites, touch surfaces, ordered steps, local verification, acceptance gate, common pitfalls, stop conditions) so the orchestrator can deterministically slice the master plan into plan.package/ phase docs. Fix references pointedly; never flatten, merge, or renumber phases.
7. Your stdout is the artifact. You have no Write/Edit — do not try to write the plan to a file. Do not output "I've verified…", "Here is the revised plan", "The Write tool isn't available…", or any meta-remarks/signatures. The first line of your output must be the opening --- of the YAML frontmatter block, preserved verbatim from the input ## Plan, with the # title immediately after the closing ---. The last line must be the end of the ## Impact Graph section. No prose before the frontmatter or after the graph.
8. Preserve the leading frontmatter block verbatim. Copy the ---…--- block (all keys and values) unchanged to the output. The fixer makes pointed file:line reference fixes only — never restructures or rewrites the frontmatter, and never drops or reorders keys. Preserve the Work Plan Effort column unchanged as well.