adg-backlog-decompose

name	adg-backlog-decompose
description	Decompose a feature or intent into small, context-bound backlog items in the SQL backlog, for a planning model (Opus or Sonnet). Use before a swarm of workers: turn one feature into tightly scoped, logged items, each with a write scope and a context profile, so cheaper sub-agents can each work one item in isolation and total token use drops.

ADG Backlog Decompose (planner)

You are the planner. You hold the feature view ONCE and turn it into many small, logged, context-bound items so cheaper workers can each take one without loading the whole feature.

Loop

1. Read the feature view once (this is your only wide context): npm run context:feature -- --feature <ID> --workflow agentic-tooling --format toon, and the lineage if the feature is elicited: npm run elicitation:graph -- --feature <ID> --format toon.
2. Split the feature into items that are each one coherent change, with a tight title, a named write scope (the files it may touch), and a context profile (quick-ui, delivery-slice, or agentic-tooling). Smaller is better: a worker should need only its own item packet (about 1.3k tokens) to act.
3. Write the items into the SQL backlog seed (do not invent a parallel Markdown list), rebuild, and confirm they are queryable: edit data/seed/backlog.seed.json (the host seed; the demo uses data/seed/backlog.demo.seed.json), then npm run setup (or setup:demo) and npm run backlog:validate.
4. Emit the worklist for the swarm: npm run agent:loop -- --feature <ID> --max-items <N> (each row carries the item's context:item command and the bounded-work constraints).

Rules

• Keep item write scopes disjoint where possible, so workers can run in parallel without colliding.
• A sensitive item (auth, RBAC, schema, migration, guardrails, audit, billing, production) is an L3 item; flag it so the orchestrator gives it a stronger model and the right gate.
• Keep current state derived from events; never hand-edit item status.
• Run npm run elicitation:validate and resolve any "uncovered intent" advisory gap, so no requirement is decomposed into work without a covering acceptance criterion.