verify-prd

name	verify-prd
description	Initiative-level PRD acceptance gate. Given a PRD ref/URL (GitHub Issue, Linear project/issue, Notion page, Confluence page, or JIRA issue), resolves the source vendor, reads the PRD body and its generated top-level child work set via the prd-lifecycle-rollup contract (native hierarchy first, machine-readable generated-work section fallback — never reimplementing child enumeration), and confirms every required generated top-level work item is terminal before any verification runs. If any required top-level child is non-terminal, it reports the incomplete child set and STOPS without verifying or transitioning the PRD. When the guard passes, it runs spec-conformance against the original PRD requirements (via the spec-conformance skill) plus empirical verification appropriate to the shipped surface (via verification-lifecycle). On a CONFORMS verdict with all empirical checks passing it runs the PASS path: transitions the PRD shipped → verified and posts verification evidence. On a PARTIAL/DIVERGES conformance verdict or any failing empirical check it runs the self-healing FAIL path: it re-opens the PRD shipped → ticketed (NEVER blocked), creates build-ready fix tickets (via tracker-write with build_ready: true) for each missing/incorrect/divergent behavior — registered as the PRD's generated work — and posts a product-readable failure report (with a verification-round count) naming which requirements/ACs failed with observed-vs-expected evidence. The fix tickets auto-build, rollup re-ships the PRD once they are terminal, and a later intake cycle re-verifies — the loop closes itself and never auto-halts. Re-runs are idempotent: evidence/failure-report comments are regenerated in place via a stable sentinel marker (never appended, round incremented), fix tickets are deduped by a stable PRD-ref + requirement marker (referenced/updated, never duplicated), and the lifecycle transition is a no-op when the PRD already carries the target role (exactly one lifecycle label/status remains) — per the prd-lifecycle-rollup idempotency dedupe key (match by stable ref, never by title).
allowed-tools	["Skill","Bash","Read","mcp__claude_ai_Notion__notion-fetch","mcp__claude_ai_Notion__notion-get-comments","mcp__atlassian__getConfluencePage","mcp__atlassian__getConfluencePageDescendants","mcp__atlassian__getJiraIssue","mcp__atlassian__searchJiraIssuesUsingJql","mcp__atlassian__getAccessibleAtlassianResources"]

PRD-level Verification: $ARGUMENTS

/lisa:verify-prd <prd> is the initiative-level acceptance gate. It runs after a PRD is shipped (all generated top-level work terminal, per prd-lifecycle-rollup's rollup phase) and proves the shipped product actually matches the PRD — not merely that every ticket is closed. shipped is necessary but not sufficient for verified: a PRD can have every child ticket closed while still missing a requirement, diverging from its acceptance criteria, or failing a real user workflow.

This is distinct from /lisa:verify, which empirically verifies a single work item (a ticket / story / sub-task) in its target environment as part of that item's Build/Fix/Improve flow. /lisa:verify drives a build ticket to done at the leaf/build level; it does not read the PRD or judge initiative-level acceptance. /lisa:verify-prd operates one level up, over the whole initiative. See the prd-lifecycle-rollup rule's "PRD-level verification vs ticket verification" section for the full distinction.

$ARGUMENTS is a single PRD reference: a GitHub issue URL (or <org>/<repo>#<n>), a Linear project/issue URL, a Notion page URL, a Confluence page URL, or a JIRA issue key/URL.

Confirmation policy

Do not re-prompt once invoked. Like the *-prd-intake skills, the caller has already authorized the run by invoking the skill; asking the user to confirm before reading or before applying the guard defeats the purpose of a batchable acceptance gate. Run the front-half (resolve → read child set → guard) to completion and report.

Scope of this skill

This skill covers the read/guard front-half, both verdict branches (PASS and FAIL), and the idempotency of PRD-level verification:

1. Resolve the PRD ref and detect its source vendor.
2. Read the PRD body and its generated top-level child work set via the prd-lifecycle-rollup contract.
3. Apply the per-vendor terminal predicate to the generated top-level work and run the terminal-child guard: if any required top-level child is non-terminal, report the incomplete set and STOP — do not run verification, do not transition the PRD.
4. Spec conformance — when the guard passes, invoke the spec-conformance skill with the PRD as the spec source to build a section-by-section coverage matrix against the shipped product (never reimplementing the matrix).
5. Empirical verification — invoke verification-lifecycle to run empirical checks appropriate to the PRD's surface (browser/computer-use, API, CLI, DB, screenshots, logs), honoring the verification rule. Quality gates (test/typecheck/lint) are not verification.
6. PASS transition + evidence — when spec conformance is CONFORMS and every applicable empirical check passes, transition the PRD lifecycle from the resolved shipped role to the resolved verified role (vendor-neutral via config-resolution) and post verification evidence (the coverage matrix + empirical proof artifacts) back on the PRD.
7. FAIL — re-open as ticketed + build-ready fix tickets (self-healing, never blocked) — when spec conformance is PARTIAL/DIVERGES, or any applicable empirical check fails (or a required surface is unavailable), move the PRD from the resolved shipped role back to the resolved ticketed role, create build-ready fix tickets via tracker-write (build_ready: true) for each missing/incorrect/divergent behavior — added to the PRD's generated top-level work — and post a product-readable failure report (with the verification-round count). PRD verification never moves the PRD to blocked. The fix tickets auto-build, rollup (*-prd-intake Phase 3f) re-ships the PRD once they are terminal, and a later intake cycle (Phase 3g) re-verifies — the loop closes itself.
8. Idempotency — every write in Phases 6 and 7 is safe to re-run: evidence/failure-report comments carry a stable sentinel marker and are regenerated in place (never appended), fix tickets are deduped by a stable PRD-ref + requirement marker (referenced/updated, never duplicated), and the lifecycle transition is a no-op when the PRD already carries the target role (exactly one lifecycle label/status remains). See Phase 8 — Idempotency for the per-write guards.

When verification passes, this skill runs the PASS branch of Phase 6 (shipped → verified). When it does not pass — spec conformance not CONFORMS, or any empirical check failing — this skill runs the FAIL branch of Phase 7 (shipped → ticketed + build-ready fix tickets + failure report); it does not leave the PRD at shipped and never uses blocked (PRD verification is self-healing — the fix tickets auto-build and the PRD re-ships and re-verifies). Re-running the skill against the same PRD produces no duplicate evidence comments, no duplicate fix tickets, and no duplicate lifecycle labels/statuses — the Phase 8 guards make each Phase 6/7 write idempotent, exactly as prd-backlink regenerates its ## Tickets section in place and github-prd-intake no-ops a rollup on an already-shipped PRD.

Phase 1 — Resolve the PRD ref and detect the source vendor

Detect the vendor from $ARGUMENTS the same way prd-ticket-coverage / prd-backlink do — from the host (or key shape for JIRA), never by guessing:

Input shape	Vendor	Read surface
github.com/<org>/<repo>/issues/<n> or <org>/<repo>#<n>	GitHub Issues	gh CLI (Lisa uses the CLI exclusively for GitHub — no GitHub MCP)
linear.app/...	Linear	lisa:linear-access operation: get-project / lisa:linear-access operation: get-issue
notion.so / notion.site	Notion	mcp__claude_ai_Notion__notion-fetch (include_discussions: true)
*.atlassian.net/wiki/...	Confluence	mcp__atlassian__getConfluencePage (+ descendants)
JIRA issue key (e.g. PROJ-123) or *.atlassian.net/browse/...	JIRA	mcp__atlassian__getJiraIssue

Read the PRD body via the vendor-appropriate surface. The vendor that owns the PRD source is what Phase 2 reads the child set from; it is independent of which tracker hosts the generated tickets (a Notion PRD can own JIRA tickets — the cross-vendor case is handled by the documented generated-work section in Phase 2).

Where the PRD lives in the same vendor as the configured tracker (.lisa.config.json), prefer reading the PRD ticket through lisa:tracker-read so this skill stays agnostic of which tracker hosts the work — tracker-read dispatches to lisa:github-read-issue / lisa:jira-read-ticket / lisa:linear-read-issue per config and returns the consolidated context bundle (PRD body, native children, links). For PRD sources with no tracker counterpart (Notion / Confluence / cross-vendor), read the PRD body directly via the vendor surface above.

Phase 2 — Read the generated top-level child work set

Do NOT reimplement child enumeration. Consume the PRD→generated-top-level-work relationship recorded by the merged child-linking work (prd-backlink native linking + its always-written machine-readable generated-work section), exactly as github-prd-intake's rollup phase consumes it. Read the generated top-level work only — the PRD's created Epics and any top-level Story created directly under it — and exclude leaf Sub-tasks and any Story nested under a generated Epic, per the prd-lifecycle-rollup rule's generated-top-level-work contract.

Use two sources, native first, deduped by child-ref identity:

1. Native hierarchy (primary). Read the PRD's direct native children — these are its top-level children:

   • GitHub — the PRD issue's direct subIssues nodes (the GraphQL subIssues query lisa:github-read-issue Phase 3 uses; capture number title state url stateReason labels).
   • Linear — for a PRD Project, its member Issues (list_issues({project})); for a PRD Issue, its sub-Issues (get_issue children). Capture each child's state (workflow state + category).
   • JIRA — the PRD's children via the epic-link/parent JQL lisa:jira-read-ticket Phase 5 uses ("Epic Link" = <PRD-KEY> or parent = <PRD-KEY>). Capture each child's statusCategory.
   • Notion / Confluence — no native issue hierarchy; use the documented section below.

2. Documented generated-work section (fallback / cross-vendor). When native hierarchy is unavailable (older host, cross-vendor PRD→tracker, or the relationship was only recorded in the PRD body), parse the machine-readable generated-work section prd-backlink writes to the PRD body (## Tickets, alias ## Generated Work). Enumerate the <!-- lisa:gw ref=… url=… type=… parent=… --> tokens; the generated top-level child set is every token whose parent is empty (top-level), exactly as prd-backlink documents. Tokens with a non-empty parent are descendants — skip them. For GitHub, this is the same awk extraction github-prd-intake Phase 3f.2 uses.

Dedupe by child-ref identity (owner/repo#number for GitHub, the issue/project identifier for Linear, the issue key for JIRA, the recorded ref for Notion/Confluence — the prd-lifecycle-rollup idempotency dedupe key) so a child appearing in both the native graph and the documented section is counted once. Match by stable ref, never by title.

If neither source yields any generated top-level child (the PRD generated nothing, or the relationship was never recorded), report no generated top-level children — cannot verify an empty PRD and STOP. Do not transition the PRD.

Phase 3 — Terminal-child guard

Apply the per-vendor terminal-state predicate from the prd-lifecycle-rollup rule to every generated top-level work item (cite the rule by slug — do not restate its predicate table here). In summary, a top-level child is:

• Terminal — it has reached its source/tracker's done/shipped state (GitHub: closed + the resolved build done role label where used; Linear: a done-category completed state; JIRA: statusCategory.key == "done"; Notion/Confluence: the documented generated-work entry marked done). A generated Epic is terminal only when it has rolled up to its own terminal state per leaf-only-lifecycle — read the child's own resolved state; do not re-derive it from its leaves.
• Terminal-but-dropped — closed-as-not-planned (GitHub stateReason == "not_planned") / canceled (Linear) / won't-do. It does not hold the PRD open and is excluded from the required set.
• Incomplete / blocked — anything else (still open, or closed without the done role). It holds the PRD open.

The required set is the top-level children minus the terminal-but-dropped ones. Branch:

Any required top-level child is non-terminal (the "Given a PRD has generated child work that is not terminal" scenario):

1. STOP. Do not run empirical verification or spec-conformance.
2. Leave the PRD lifecycle untouched — it stays at shipped. Do not transition it to verified or blocked; do not close or archive it.
3. Report the incomplete child set — list each non-terminal required top-level child as - <ref> "<title>" — <state>, so product can see exactly what is blocking PRD-level verification.

This guard exists because PRD-level acceptance is only meaningful once the work graph is actually complete. shipped is the precondition; verifying a PRD whose generated work is still in flight would produce a false PASS or FAIL against an incomplete product.

All required top-level children are terminal (at least one required child exists): the guard passes. Proceed to Phase 4 — Spec conformance and the rest of the PASS path below. The guard is the precondition for verification; only once the work graph is complete is it meaningful to check the shipped product against the PRD.

Phase 4 — Spec conformance against the PRD

The guard proves the work graph is complete; spec conformance proves the shipped product matches what the PRD asked for, section by section. This is the "accountant lens" — did the initiative ship exactly the PRD's requirements, nothing silently dropped, nothing scope-crept?

Do NOT reimplement the coverage matrix. Invoke the existing spec-conformance skill with the PRD as the spec source:

/spec-conformance <PRD ref/URL>

Pass the same $ARGUMENTS PRD reference resolved in Phase 1. spec-conformance Phase 1 already accepts a GitHub issue URL / Linear identifier / JIRA key / Notion / Confluence PRD as its spec source and loads the full PRD body (via tracker-read or the vendor surface), so the PRD is the spec here — not a plan file or a leaf ticket. It then:

• extracts every PRD requirement into a structured list (acceptance criteria, Out of Scope, technical commitments, Validation Journey assertions, deliverables);
• inspects the shipped product (the merged work across the generated top-level children) for evidence of each;
• builds a section-by-section coverage matrix mapping each requirement to evidence;
• flags scope creep (Out-of-Scope violations) and untraceable changes separately from misses;
• returns a verdict: CONFORMS, PARTIAL, or DIVERGES.

Capture the coverage matrix and verdict verbatim — both feed the evidence comment in Phase 6 and gate the PASS branch.

Spec conformance at the PRD level differs from the leaf-ticket conformance run during a single item's Build/Fix/Improve flow: the spec is the PRD itself (the whole initiative's requirements), and the shipped work is the union of all generated top-level children, not one branch's diff. The spec-conformance skill handles both because its spec source is parameterized; this skill simply hands it the PRD.

Branch on the verdict:

• CONFORMS — continue to Phase 5 (empirical verification).
• PARTIAL or DIVERGES — verification has not passed. Do not run Phase 5 (empirical verification adds nothing once the spec already diverges) and do not enter the PASS path. Record the verdict and the matrix, then go to Phase 7 — FAIL with a CONFORMANCE_FAILED cause: the failed/missing/scope-crept requirements the matrix flagged become the failure report's findings and the seeds for the linked fix issues.

Phase 5 — Empirical verification of the shipped surface

Spec conformance reads the diff and the requirements; empirical verification runs the actual shipped system and observes results. Quality gates (tests, typecheck, lint) are prerequisites, not verification — a green test suite never substitutes for exercising the shipped product (see the verification rule).

The verification surface is PRD-dependent. A PRD that shipped a UI flow is verified through the browser; one that shipped an API through request/response captures; a CLI through command runs; a schema change through database queries; a background job through logs and queue inspection. Do not assume a fixed surface — classify it from what the PRD actually delivered.

Do NOT reinvent the verification machinery. Invoke the verification-lifecycle skill and follow its mandatory sequence (confirm quality gates → classify empirical types → check tooling → fail-fast → plan → execute → codify → loop) against the shipped initiative:

/verification-lifecycle

1. Classify the empirical verification types that apply to the PRD's shipped surface, per the Verification Types table in the verification rule.
2. Discover tooling for each type (browser/computer-use MCP, HTTP client, DB client, CLI, log/metrics access) via the lifecycle's Tool Discovery Process. For a UI surface, reuse the product-walkthrough skill to drive the live product through a real browser and ground verification (and the eventual evidence comment) in what actually renders.
3. Plan each check: the exact tool/command, the expected pass outcome, and any prerequisites (running service, seeded data, auth). A plan that lists only test/typecheck/lint is not a verification plan.
4. Execute each check and collect proof artifacts (screenshots, request/response captures, query outputs, log excerpts with correlation IDs) per the lifecycle's Proof Artifacts Requirements.
5. Codify — for each passing empirical verification, the lifecycle invokes codify-verification to encode it as a regression test (Playwright for UI, integration test for API/DB, benchmark for performance) so the PRD's behavior cannot silently regress. Honor that step; it is mandatory for every empirical type except the inherently non-behavioral set the lifecycle exempts.

If a required surface or its tooling is unavailable, follow the lifecycle's Escalation Protocol — declare the verification level (PARTIALLY VERIFIED / UNVERIFIED) and surface the gap rather than declaring a false PASS.

Branch on the result:

• Every applicable empirical check passes (and is codified where the lifecycle requires) — continue to Phase 6 (PASS).
• Any applicable empirical check fails, or a required surface is unavailable — verification has not passed. Record what failed/was-blocked (the check, the tool/command, observed vs expected, and any proof artifacts captured), then go to Phase 7 — FAIL with an EMPIRICAL_FAILED cause: each failed check (or unavailable required surface) becomes a failure-report finding and a seed for a linked fix issue.

Single-environment note. In a single-environment project (main/production only, no dev/staging), the shipped surface is whatever production exposes. A project with no deployed application, sign-in, or end-to-end environment variables (Lisa itself) verifies on its CLI/dry-run surface — running the documentation/skill build and drift check — which is the empirical surface the PRD's Validation Journey declares. The surface is always PRD-dependent: read the PRD's Empirical Verification Plan and verify what it says ships.

Phase 6 — PASS: transition shipped → verified and post evidence

Reach this phase only when both are true:

• Phase 4 spec conformance returned CONFORMS, and
• Phase 5 every applicable empirical check passed (and was codified where required).

If either is false, do not enter this phase — record the verdict and route to Phase 7 — FAIL, which owns the shipped → ticketed (re-open + build-ready fix tickets) path.

6.1 — Resolve the verified and shipped roles

Resolve the PRD-lifecycle roles from .lisa.config.json (then .lisa.config.local.json override) per the config-resolution rule — the same role-resolution the *-prd-intake skills use. Cite config-resolution for the role vocabulary; do not hardcode label strings except as the documented defaults. Resolution per vendor:

Vendor	shipped role	verified role	Default verified
GitHub	github.labels.prd.shipped	github.labels.prd.verified	prd-verified (label)
Linear	linear.labels.prd.shipped	linear.labels.prd.verified	prd-verified (project/issue label)
Notion	notion.values.shipped	notion.values.verified	Verified (status value)
Confluence	confluence.parents.shipped	confluence.parents.verified	the Verified parent page id
JIRA	the configured shipped status	the configured verified status	per config-resolution

For GitHub, resolve with the same helper github-prd-intake uses:

read_role() {  # role default → resolved value (local override wins)
  local role="$1" default="$2" local_v global_v
  local_v=$(jq -r ".github.labels.prd.${role} // empty" .lisa.config.local.json 2>/dev/null)
  global_v=$(jq -r ".github.labels.prd.${role} // empty" .lisa.config.json 2>/dev/null)
  echo "${local_v:-${global_v:-$default}}"
}
SHIPPED=$(read_role shipped  prd-shipped)
VERIFIED=$(read_role verified prd-verified)

6.2 — Transition the PRD shipped → verified

Idempotency guard (no-op if already verified). Before transitioning, read the PRD's current lifecycle role. If the PRD already carries $VERIFIED, the transition is a no-op — do not re-add the label/status, do not re-remove $SHIPPED (already gone). Record it as already verified (no-op) and proceed to 6.3 (the evidence comment is still refreshed in place, per Phase 8). This mirrors github-prd-intake Phase 3f.1's "no-op if already shipped" guard and the prd-lifecycle-rollup "rollup is keyed by the PRD's current state" rule (cite both by slug).

Otherwise apply the vendor-appropriate transition. This is the shipped → verified PASS hop the prd-lifecycle-rollup rule defines (cite it by slug; this skill is its PASS-path implementation, not a second source of truth):

• GitHub / Linear — remove the shipped label and add the verified label. For GitHub:

  gh issue edit <prd-num> --repo <org>/<repo> --remove-label "$SHIPPED" --add-label "$VERIFIED"
  

  Verify exactly one PRD-lifecycle label remains afterward (the single-label invariant github-prd-intake enforces) — a re-run must never leave both $SHIPPED and $VERIFIED, nor two copies of $VERIFIED. For GitHub, close the PRD issue immediately after the label transition with gh issue close <prd-num> --repo <org>/<repo> --reason completed; if it is already closed, record that native closure was already satisfied. For Linear, set the project/issue label equivalently, then archive/complete the project or issue using the vendor's native terminal mechanism where available.
• Notion — set the PRD page's notion.statusProperty (default Status) to the resolved verified value (default Verified). A status property holds exactly one value, so re-setting the same value is inherently a no-op. Then archive the page through lisa:notion-access where supported; if the page is already archived, record that native archival was already satisfied.
• Confluence — move the PRD page's parentId to confluence.parents.verified (the parent-page-based lifecycle; Atlassian scoped tokens cannot write labels — see config-resolution). A page has exactly one parent, so re-parenting to the same parent is a no-op. Then archive the page where the deployment supports archival; if archival is unavailable, report the capability-aware no-op or setup gap.
• JIRA — transition the PRD issue to the configured verified status. An issue holds exactly one status; if already verified, skip the transition. Then resolve/close the issue using the configured terminal workflow transition where supported.

verified is the terminal, product-owned PRD state; this skill is the only automated writer of it (intake/rollup never set it). After the verified transition, close, archive, or complete the PRD natively where the source vendor supports it. This close-out is mandatory and idempotent; do not introduce a configuration flag to skip it.

6.3 — Post verification evidence on the PRD

Post a verification-evidence comment back on the PRD, in the spirit of tracker-evidence (the vendor-neutral evidence poster). Because the evidence lands on the PRD source — which may be Notion or Confluence, not a tracker ticket — post via the vendor surface that owns the PRD: gh issue comment for GitHub, the Linear comment API, the Notion/Confluence page comment surface, or a JIRA comment. Where the PRD lives in the configured tracker, you may dispatch through tracker-evidence; for Notion/Confluence/cross-vendor PRDs, comment on the PRD page directly.

Idempotent — regenerate the evidence comment in place, never append. Lead the comment body with the stable sentinel marker <!-- lisa:verify-prd-evidence -->. Before posting, look up an existing evidence comment authored by this skill on the PRD whose body contains that sentinel (the same regenerate-don't-append discipline prd-backlink uses for its ## Tickets section; match by the marker, never by comment text or position). If one exists, edit it in place with the freshly regenerated body; only create a new comment when none exists. Per vendor:

• GitHub — gh issue view <prd-num> --repo <org>/<repo> --json comments and select the comment whose body contains <!-- lisa:verify-prd-evidence -->; update it with gh api -X PATCH /repos/<org>/<repo>/issues/comments/<comment-id> -f body=@evidence.md. Only gh issue comment <prd-num> --body-file evidence.md when no marked comment exists.
• Linear — find the existing comment carrying the sentinel and update it via the Linear comment-update API; create only if absent.
• Notion / Confluence — update the existing marked page comment in place; create only if absent.
• JIRA — update the existing marked comment in place; create only if absent.

The marked comment is the single canonical evidence comment for the PRD — a re-run refreshes it, never stacking a second one. The evidence comment MUST include:

1. Sentinel marker — the literal <!-- lisa:verify-prd-evidence --> as the first line, so the next run finds and regenerates this exact comment.
2. AI disclosure — lead with "PRD-level verification by Claude (AI agent, not a human)."
3. Verdict line — shipped → verified — PASS.
4. Spec-conformance coverage matrix — the section-by-section matrix from Phase 4 verbatim, with the CONFORMS verdict.
5. Empirical proof artifacts — the Phase 5 artifacts per surface: screenshots (upload via gh release upload pr-assets <files> --clobber and reference as plain URLs, per the tracker-evidence UI Evidence Checklist), request/response captures, query outputs, log excerpts, and the codified regression test(s) added.
6. What was verified — which PRD acceptance criteria each artifact covers, and the verification surface used.

Then emit the PASS output block (below).

Phase 7 — FAIL: re-open as ticketed, create build-ready fix tickets, post a failure report (never blocked)

Reach this phase when verification did not pass — i.e. either is true:

• Phase 4 spec conformance returned PARTIAL or DIVERGES (CONFORMANCE_FAILED cause), or
• Phase 5 had any applicable empirical check fail or a required surface unavailable (EMPIRICAL_FAILED cause).

PRD verification failure is self-healing, not a dead end. Instead of parking the PRD in blocked for a human, this phase: (1) moves the PRD back to ticketed (work in flight again), (2) creates build-ready fix tickets for the gaps so the build queue picks them up with no human promotion, and (3) posts a failure report. The fix tickets are added to the PRD's generated top-level work, so the existing machinery closes the loop on its own: the fix tickets build → reach terminal → the *-prd-intake rollup (Phase 3f) re-ships the PRD ticketed → shipped → the next intake cycle (Phase 3g) re-dispatches /lisa:verify-prd → PASS gives verified, FAIL runs this phase again with another round of fix tickets. This is the FAIL counterpart of the Phase 6 PASS hop and is the shipped → ticketed FAIL hop the prd-lifecycle-rollup rule's "Closing the loop" section defines (cite it by slug; this skill is its FAIL-path implementation, not a second source of truth).

PRD verification never moves the PRD to blocked. blocked is the intake (ready-stage validation) failure state, not the verification failure state — there is no prd-verifying / prd-verification-failed state either; the lifecycle stays small. The loop never auto-halts; the failure report carries a verification-round count so a human can spot a PRD stuck across repeated rounds, but the skill keeps creating fix tickets and re-verifying.

Carry forward the verdict cause and the concrete findings that produced it: from CONFORMANCE_FAILED, the matrix's missed/divergent/scope-crept requirements; from EMPIRICAL_FAILED, each failing check (the requirement/AC it exercised, the tool/command, observed vs expected, and any captured artifacts). These findings drive both the failure report (7.3) and the fix issues (7.4).

7.1 — Resolve the shipped and ticketed roles

Resolve the PRD-lifecycle roles from .lisa.config.json (then .lisa.config.local.json override) per the config-resolution rule — the same role-resolution Phase 6.1 and the *-prd-intake skills use. Cite config-resolution for the role vocabulary; do not hardcode label strings except as the documented defaults. Resolution per vendor:

Vendor	shipped role	ticketed role	Default ticketed
GitHub	github.labels.prd.shipped	github.labels.prd.ticketed	prd-ticketed (label)
Linear	linear.labels.prd.shipped	linear.labels.prd.ticketed	prd-ticketed (project/issue label)
Notion	notion.values.shipped	notion.values.ticketed	Ticketed (status value)
Confluence	confluence.parents.shipped	confluence.parents.ticketed	the Ticketed parent page id
JIRA	the configured shipped status	the configured ticketed status	per config-resolution

For GitHub, resolve with the same helper Phase 6.1 / github-prd-intake use:

read_role() {  # role default → resolved value (local override wins)
  local role="$1" default="$2" local_v global_v
  local_v=$(jq -r ".github.labels.prd.${role} // empty" .lisa.config.local.json 2>/dev/null)
  global_v=$(jq -r ".github.labels.prd.${role} // empty" .lisa.config.json 2>/dev/null)
  echo "${local_v:-${global_v:-$default}}"
}
SHIPPED=$(read_role shipped prd-shipped)
TICKETED=$(read_role ticketed prd-ticketed)

7.2 — Re-open the PRD shipped → ticketed

Idempotency guard (no-op if already ticketed). Before transitioning, read the PRD's current lifecycle role. If the PRD already carries $TICKETED (the common re-run case — a prior failed round already re-opened it and its fix tickets are still in flight), the transition is a no-op — do not re-add the label/status, do not re-remove $SHIPPED (already gone). Record it as already ticketed (no-op) and proceed to 7.3, where the existing failure report is updated in place (not stacked, round count incremented) and 7.4, where existing fix tickets are referenced rather than re-created. This mirrors github-prd-intake Phase 3f.1's "no-op if already shipped" guard and the prd-lifecycle-rollup "rollup is keyed by the PRD's current state" rule (cite both by slug).

Otherwise apply the vendor-appropriate transition. This is the shipped → ticketed FAIL hop from the prd-lifecycle-rollup rule's "Closing the loop" section (cite it by slug) — a deliberate backward hop that puts the PRD back into "work in flight" so its new fix tickets are the in-flight work the rollup waits on:

• GitHub / Linear — remove the shipped label and add the ticketed label. For GitHub:

  gh issue edit <prd-num> --repo <org>/<repo> --remove-label "$SHIPPED" --add-label "$TICKETED"
  

  Verify exactly one PRD-lifecycle label remains afterward (the single-label invariant github-prd-intake enforces) — a re-run must never leave both $SHIPPED and $TICKETED, nor two copies of $TICKETED. For Linear, set the project/issue label equivalently.
• Notion — set the PRD page's notion.statusProperty (default Status) to the resolved ticketed value (default Ticketed). A status property holds exactly one value, so re-setting the same value is inherently a no-op.
• Confluence — move the PRD page's parentId to confluence.parents.ticketed (the parent-page-based lifecycle; Atlassian scoped tokens cannot write labels — see config-resolution). A page has exactly one parent, so re-parenting to the same parent is a no-op.
• JIRA — transition the PRD issue to the configured ticketed status. An issue holds exactly one status; if already ticketed, skip the transition.

Do not close or archive the PRD here, and never move it to blocked — ticketed signals "verification found gaps; fix work is in flight," and the PRD re-ships and re-verifies automatically once that work lands.

7.3 — Post a product-readable failure report on the PRD

Post a failure report comment back on the PRD, via the same vendor surface Phase 6.3 uses for evidence (gh issue comment for GitHub, the Linear comment API, the Notion/Confluence page comment surface, or a JIRA comment; dispatch through tracker-evidence where the PRD lives in the configured tracker). The report is written for a non-engineer product owner — plain language, no stack traces dumped raw. Capture its URL/anchor so the fix issues in 7.4 can back-link to it.

Idempotent — regenerate the failure report in place, never append. Lead the comment body with the stable sentinel marker <!-- lisa:verify-prd-failure-report -->. Before posting, look up an existing failure-report comment on the PRD whose body contains that sentinel (match by the marker, never by comment text or position — the same regenerate-don't-append discipline as Phase 6.3). If one exists, edit it in place with the freshly regenerated findings (so a re-run-after-a-previous-failure refreshes the same report rather than stacking a second one); only create a new comment when none exists. The GitHub mechanics are identical to Phase 6.3 (gh issue view --json comments to find the marked comment, gh api -X PATCH .../issues/comments/<id> to update, gh issue comment only when absent). It MUST include:

1. Sentinel marker — the literal <!-- lisa:verify-prd-failure-report --> as the first line, so the next run finds and regenerates this exact comment.
2. AI disclosure — lead with "PRD-level verification by Claude (AI agent, not a human)."
3. Verdict line + round — shipped → ticketed — FAIL (re-opened for fixes), the cause (CONFORMANCE_FAILED or EMPIRICAL_FAILED), and Round: N — the count of failed verification rounds for this PRD. Read the prior in-place failure report's round and increment (start at 1). The loop never auto-halts on a high count, but surfacing it lets a human notice a PRD stuck across repeated fix-and-re-verify rounds.
4. What failed, in plain language — for each finding, name the specific PRD requirement / acceptance criterion that was not met, then what was expected vs what was observed (the empirical evidence: what was checked, what the shipped product did instead). One bullet per finding so product can follow each independently.
5. Spec-conformance coverage matrix — for a CONFORMANCE_FAILED cause, the section-by-section matrix from Phase 4 verbatim with the PARTIAL/DIVERGES verdict, so the missed/divergent/scope-crept rows are visible.
6. Proof artifacts — any captured empirical artifacts (screenshots uploaded via gh release upload pr-assets <files> --clobber and referenced as plain URLs per the tracker-evidence UI Evidence Checklist, request/response captures, query outputs, log excerpts).
7. Fix issues — a list of the fix issues created/referenced in 7.4 (filled in after 7.4 runs, or posted as a brief follow-up edit), so the report is the single product-facing index of "what's wrong and where it's being fixed."

7.4 — Create linked fix issues for the missing/incorrect behavior

For each failed/missing/incorrect/divergent finding, create a build-ready fix ticket via tracker-write with build_ready: true (the vendor-neutral writer) — never by hand-rolling gh issue create, so each ticket passes the same quality gates (tracker-validate) every Lisa ticket does: three-audience description, Gherkin acceptance criteria, labels, and explicit relationship discovery. build_ready: true makes the build queue (lisa:intake build side / *-build-intake) auto-claim it with no human promotion — that is what makes the loop self-healing. Group findings that share one root cause into one fix ticket; do not fan out one ticket per matrix cell when several rows are the same defect.

Idempotent — dedupe fix issues by a stable marker; reference/update, never duplicate. This is the "re-run after a previous failure with the same missing behavior" scenario: the prior run already opened a fix issue for that requirement, so the re-run must find and reuse it, not create a second one. Apply the prd-lifecycle-rollup idempotency dedupe key discipline (match by a stable ref, never by title):

1. Compute a stable dedupe key per finding — the PRD ref plus a stable requirement/AC identity (e.g. the AC's heading/number or a slug of the requirement), independent of any mutable wording. Encode it in the fix-issue body as the marker <!-- lisa:verify-prd-fix prd=<prd-ref> req=<stable-req-id> -->.
2. Look up an existing OPEN fix issue carrying that exact marker before creating anything. On GitHub, search the repo for open issues whose body contains the marker (gh issue list --repo <org>/<repo> --state open --search '"<!-- lisa:verify-prd-fix prd=<prd-ref> req=<stable-req-id> -->"' --json number,url,body — or fetch and grep the marker); on Linear/JIRA, query by the marker stored in the body/a custom field. Match on the marker, never on the issue title (a title may have been edited; the marker is the stable identity).
3. If a matching open fix issue exists, reference/update it — do not create a duplicate. Refresh its captured evidence (the latest observed-vs-expected) and re-affirm the back-links to the PRD and the regenerated failure report, then fold its existing ref into the failure report's Fix issues list. A closed prior fix issue does not suppress a new one — if the requirement is failing again after the fix was closed, that is a regression and a fresh fix issue is correct.
4. Only when no matching open fix issue exists, create a new one via tracker-write.

Each fix issue (whether freshly created or referenced/updated) MUST:

1. Carry the dedupe marker — <!-- lisa:verify-prd-fix prd=<prd-ref> req=<stable-req-id> --> in its body, so the next run finds and reuses it.
2. Reference the specific failed requirement/AC — quote or cite the exact PRD requirement / acceptance criterion the finding violated, so the fix is scoped to a real gap (not a vague "make it work").
3. Carry the captured evidence — the observed-vs-expected from the failure report (what was checked, what was expected, what the shipped product did), so an implementer can reproduce without re-deriving it.
4. Back-link to the PRD and the failure report — link to the PRD (so the fix rolls back up to the initiative) and to the failure-report comment from 7.3 (so the full context is one click away). On GitHub, reference the PRD issue number and the failure-report comment URL in the body and, where supported, as a sub-issue/Relates to link; on Linear, set the relation; on JIRA, add the issue link and remote link.
5. Have acceptance criteria — Gherkin ACs describing the corrected behavior (what "fixed" looks like), enforced by tracker-write → the vendor *-validate-issue gate.
6. Be build-ready and counted as PRD work — created via tracker-write with build_ready: true, and registered in the PRD's generated top-level work: refresh the PRD's ## Tickets / generated-work section via lisa:prd-backlink and, where the host supports it, link it as a native sub-issue/child of the PRD. This is what closes the loop — the *-prd-intake rollup (Phase 3f) holds the PRD in ticketed until every fix ticket is terminal, and a re-verify's Phase 2/3 then counts them as required children.

Pass each new fix ticket's spec to tracker-write with build_ready: true (which dispatches to github-write-issue / jira-write-ticket / linear-write-issue per config — each honors build_ready). Collect the created and referenced refs/URLs, register them as PRD generated work (item 6), and fold them into the failure report's Fix tickets list (7.3 item 7).

Why not reopen children? The generated top-level children are already terminal (that is the Phase 3 precondition for verification). A failed PRD-level acceptance is a new defect discovered against the shipped initiative, so it gets new fix issues linked to the PRD — not a reopen of closed build tickets, which would corrupt their build lifecycle (leaf-only-lifecycle).

Then emit the FAIL output block (below).

Phase 8 — Idempotency: re-runs produce no duplicates

/lisa:verify-prd MUST be safe to re-run against the same PRD — after a fix attempt, in a batch sweep, or simply twice. A re-run produces no duplicate evidence comments, no duplicate fix issues, and no duplicate lifecycle labels/statuses. This is the same guarantee prd-backlink gives for its ## Tickets section and github-prd-intake gives for its rollup; this skill consumes the prd-lifecycle-rollup rule's idempotency dedupe key (cite by slug — match by stable ref, never by title), it does not invent a second one.

The guards are woven into Phases 6 and 7 above; this phase collects them as one contract:

1. Evidence / failure-report comments — regenerate in place, never append. Each is led by a stable HTML-comment sentinel: <!-- lisa:verify-prd-evidence --> (PASS, Phase 6.3) and <!-- lisa:verify-prd-failure-report --> (FAIL, Phase 7.3). Before posting, find the existing comment whose body contains the sentinel and edit it in place; create a new comment only when none exists. The sentinel is matched literally — never the comment text, author display name, or position. A second run thus refreshes the one canonical comment rather than stacking a duplicate (the regenerate-don't-append discipline from prd-backlink).

2. Fix issues — dedupe by a stable marker, reference don't duplicate. Each fix issue carries <!-- lisa:verify-prd-fix prd=<prd-ref> req=<stable-req-id> -->, keyed by the PRD ref + a stable requirement/AC identity. Before creating a fix issue, search for an open issue carrying that exact marker; if found, reference/update it instead of creating a second one (Phase 7.4). The dedupe key is the marker (a stable ref), never the issue title — a renamed fix issue is still matched by its marker, and two distinct requirements get two distinct markers even if their titles collide (prd-lifecycle-rollup: "Match by stable ref, never by title"). A closed prior fix issue does not suppress a new one (a re-failure after a closed fix is a genuine regression).

3. Lifecycle transition + verified native close-out — no-op when already satisfied. The Phase 6.2 / 7.2 transition is keyed by the PRD's current state: if the PRD already carries $VERIFIED (PASS) or $TICKETED (FAIL), the transition is a no-op — no re-label, no second copy of the label/status — mirroring github-prd-intake Phase 3f.1's "no-op if already shipped." After any transition, exactly one PRD-lifecycle label/status remains (the single-label invariant); a re-run never leaves both $SHIPPED and the target role, nor two copies of the target role. For Notion/Confluence/JIRA the single-value status/parent makes re-setting the same value inherently idempotent. On the PASS path, provider-native closure/archive/completion is also idempotent: if it is already closed, archived, or completed, record the satisfied state and do not error.

Because every Phase 6/7 write is one of these three idempotent operations, the whole skill is idempotent: the end state after N runs equals the end state after 1 run — one evidence-or-failure comment, one fix issue per still-failing requirement, one lifecycle label/status. Computing the verdict itself is a pure function of the PRD's current state and its children's current states, so recomputing it on a re-run is safe (prd-lifecycle-rollup idempotency rule).

Output

Emit a single fenced text block so callers can parse it.

## verify-prd: <PRD title>

PRD: <ref/URL>  (vendor: <github|linear|notion|confluence|jira>)
PRD lifecycle state: <shipped | verified | ticketed>
Generated top-level children read: <n>  (source: native | documented | both)

### Terminal-child guard
- <ref> "<title>" — <terminal|terminal-but-dropped|incomplete>: <state>
- ...

Required top-level children: <n>   Terminal: <n>   Incomplete: <n>

### Spec conformance      (only when guard passed)
Verdict: <CONFORMS | PARTIAL | DIVERGES>
<coverage matrix summary: requirements covered / missed / scope-crept>

### Empirical verification  (only when conformance CONFORMS)
Surface: <browser | api | cli | db | logs | ...>  (PRD-dependent)
<each check — tool/command → PASS/FAIL → artifact ref; codified test(s)>

### Lifecycle transition   (PASS or FAIL)
shipped → verified   (role: <resolved verified role>)   evidence posted: <link>          # on VERIFIED_PASS  (re-run: evidence comment regenerated in place; transition no-op if already verified)
shipped → ticketed   (re-opened for fixes; round: N)    fix tickets (ready): <refs>   failure report: <link>   # on CONFORMANCE_FAILED | EMPIRICAL_FAILED  (re-run: failure report regenerated in place + round incremented; fix tickets deduped by marker; transition no-op if already ticketed; never blocked)

### Verdict: VERIFIED_PASS | CONFORMANCE_FAILED | EMPIRICAL_FAILED | GUARD_BLOCKED | NO_CHILDREN

• GUARD_BLOCKED — one or more required top-level children are non-terminal; verification did not run; the PRD was left at shipped.
• NO_CHILDREN — no generated top-level children found; cannot verify; the PRD was left untouched.
• CONFORMANCE_FAILED — guard passed but spec conformance returned PARTIAL/DIVERGES; empirical verification was skipped; the FAIL path ran — the PRD was re-opened shipped → ticketed, build-ready fix tickets were created and registered as PRD generated work, and a product-readable failure report (with the round count) was posted (Phase 7). The PRD re-ships and re-verifies once the fix tickets are terminal; it is never moved to blocked.
• EMPIRICAL_FAILED — guard passed and conformance CONFORMS, but an applicable empirical check failed or a required surface was unavailable; the FAIL path ran — the PRD was re-opened shipped → ticketed, build-ready fix tickets were created and registered as PRD generated work, and a product-readable failure report (with the round count) was posted (Phase 7). The PRD re-ships and re-verifies once the fix tickets are terminal; it is never moved to blocked.
• VERIFIED_PASS — guard passed, conformance CONFORMS, every applicable empirical check passed and was codified; the PRD was transitioned shipped → verified and verification evidence was posted (Phase 6).

Rules

• The lifecycle writes are the PASS hop shipped → verified and the FAIL hop shipped → ticketed. The front-half (resolve → read child set → guard) is read-only and never transitions the PRD. After the guard passes and verification runs, this skill writes exactly one of two transitions: the Phase 6 PASS hop shipped → verified (when spec conformance is CONFORMS and every applicable empirical check passes), or the Phase 7 FAIL hop shipped → ticketed (when conformance is PARTIAL/DIVERGES or any applicable empirical check fails). The FAIL hop never uses blocked — it re-opens the PRD to ticketed with build-ready fix tickets (the self-healing loop), introducing no new failure state. The guard-blocked and no-children paths run no verification and leave the PRD at shipped untouched.
• Every write is idempotent (Phase 8). Re-running the skill against the same PRD produces no duplicate evidence/failure-report comments, no duplicate fix issues, and no duplicate lifecycle labels/statuses. Evidence and failure-report comments are regenerated in place via a stable sentinel marker (<!-- lisa:verify-prd-evidence --> / <!-- lisa:verify-prd-failure-report -->); fix issues are deduped by a stable PRD-ref + requirement marker (<!-- lisa:verify-prd-fix prd=… req=… -->) and referenced/updated rather than re-created; the lifecycle transition is a no-op when the PRD already carries the target role, leaving exactly one lifecycle label/status. The dedupe key is the prd-lifecycle-rollup idempotency dedupe key — match by stable ref, never by title — and the no-op-already-at-target-role guard mirrors github-prd-intake Phase 3f.1.
• The FAIL path opens fix issues via tracker-write, never by hand. Each fix issue is created through the vendor-neutral writer so it passes the same tracker-validate quality gate (three-audience description, Gherkin ACs, labels, relationships) every Lisa ticket does. Fix issues are new defects against the shipped initiative, back-linked to the PRD and the failure report — never reopens of the already-terminal generated children (leaf-only-lifecycle).
• Never reimplement child enumeration. Consume the recorded PRD→child relationship (prd-lifecycle-rollup native linking + machine-readable generated-work section). The two-source read here mirrors github-prd-intake Phase 3f.2 — same sources, same dedupe-by-child-ref, same top-level-only boundary.
• Never reimplement spec conformance or verification. Phase 4 invokes the spec-conformance skill (the single source of truth for the coverage matrix and the CONFORMS/PARTIAL/DIVERGES verdict); Phase 5 invokes verification-lifecycle (which in turn invokes codify-verification and, for UI, product-walkthrough). This skill orchestrates those skills against the PRD; it does not duplicate their logic.
• Quality gates are not verification. Tests, typecheck, and lint are prerequisites enforced by hooks/CI. Phase 5 requires running the actual shipped system and observing results on a surface chosen from what the PRD delivered — never substituting a green test suite for empirical proof (verification rule).
• The verification surface is PRD-dependent. Classify the empirical surface (browser/API/CLI/DB/logs/…) from what the PRD shipped; do not assume a fixed surface. A single-environment project with no deployed app verifies on its CLI/dry-run surface per the PRD's Empirical Verification Plan.
• verified is product-owned and terminal. This skill is the only automated writer of the verified role; intake/rollup never set it. The PASS hop also performs provider-native close/archive/completion where supported, and that close-out is mandatory and idempotent.
• Verification failure never uses blocked; it re-opens to ticketed. The FAIL hop sets the existing ticketed PRD role (config-resolution) and creates build-ready fix tickets registered as the PRD's generated work, so the lifecycle stays small (prd-lifecycle-rollup "No extra failure states") and self-heals — the fix tickets auto-build, rollup re-ships the PRD, and a later cycle re-verifies. blocked remains the intake (ready-stage validation) failure role, not the verification one; the FAIL hop never closes or archives the PRD.
• Top-level only. Exclude leaf Sub-tasks and Stories nested under a generated Epic. The PRD owns its top-level work; those top-level units own their descendants (prd-lifecycle-rollup generated-top-level-work contract).
• Cite, don't restate. The generated-top-level-work boundary, the per-vendor terminal predicate, the env-keyed done resolution, the dedupe-by-child-ref idempotency key, and the shipped → verified | ticketed PRD-level verification hops all come from the prd-lifecycle-rollup rule; the verified/shipped/blocked/ticketed role vocabulary comes from config-resolution. This skill is a consumer of those contracts, not a second source of truth.

Related skills

• spec-conformance — Phase 4 invokes it with the PRD as the spec source; it owns the section-by-section coverage matrix and the CONFORMS/PARTIAL/DIVERGES verdict. This skill never reimplements that matrix.
• verification-lifecycle — Phase 5 invokes it to run empirical verification of the shipped surface (classify → check tooling → plan → execute → codify → loop). It in turn invokes codify-verification and, for UI surfaces, product-walkthrough.
• codify-verification — turns each passing empirical verification into a regression test so the PRD's verified behavior cannot silently regress; invoked transitively via verification-lifecycle.
• product-walkthrough — drives the live product through a real browser to ground UI-surface verification and the evidence comment in what actually renders.
• tracker-evidence — the vendor-neutral evidence poster whose UI Evidence Checklist and pr-assets upload mechanics Phase 6.3 (PASS evidence) and Phase 7.3 (FAIL failure report) follow when commenting on the PRD.
• tracker-write — the vendor-neutral ticket writer Phase 7.4 invokes to create each linked fix issue (dispatching to github-write-issue / jira-write-ticket / linear-write-issue per config), so every fix issue clears the tracker-validate quality gate (Gherkin ACs, three-audience description, labels, relationships). This skill never hand-rolls issue creation.
• prd-backlink — the regenerate-in-place-via-marker idempotency pattern Phase 6.3 / 7.3 / 8 follow: it regenerates its ## Tickets section from the current child set on every run (never appending) and dedupes by child-ref. The evidence/failure-report sentinel comments here apply the same discipline to PRD comments.
• github-prd-intake — the no-op-if-already-at-target-role guard Phase 6.2 / 7.2 / 8 mirror: its Phase 3f.1 rollup is a no-op on a PRD already carrying $SHIPPED, and it enforces the single-label invariant after every transition. This skill applies the same guard to the verified / ticketed hops.

Related rules

• prd-lifecycle-rollup — the vendor-neutral source of truth for PRD→generated-top-level-work ownership, the per-vendor terminal predicate, the shipped rollup, the shipped → verified (pass) / shipped → ticketed (fail) PRD-level verification hops, the "no extra failure states" rule (the FAIL hop re-opens to ticketed and never uses blocked), the "Closing the loop" self-healing dispatch, and the idempotency dedupe key ("match by stable ref, never by title"; no-op already-shipped rollup). This skill consumes that contract — implementing the shipped → verified PASS hop, the shipped → ticketed FAIL hop, and the Phase 8 idempotency guards (marker-based comment regeneration, marker-based fix-ticket dedupe, no-op-already-at-target-role transition) — citing the rule by slug rather than restating its taxonomy.
• verification — defines what counts as empirical verification (the Verification Types table) and that quality gates (test/typecheck/lint) are prerequisites, not verification. Phase 5 honors it when classifying and running the surface-appropriate checks.
• leaf-only-lifecycle — governs the build lifecycle of leaf work units and how a generated Epic rolls up from its own children; this skill trusts that bottom-up rollup when reading a top-level child's resolved state.
• config-resolution — the PRD-lifecycle role vocabulary (shipped, verified, blocked, ticketed), the per-vendor verified role maps (prd-verified label for GitHub/Linear, Verified status for Notion, confluence.parents.verified parent page) Phase 6.1 resolves, the per-vendor ticketed role maps Phase 7.1 resolves (the FAIL hop re-opens to ticketed, not blocked; blocked remains the intake-stage failure role, not used by verify-prd), and the env-keyed done map the terminal predicate resolves against.