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name: plan-blitz
description: "PM-GATED. Sweep every baton in the repo that lacks an approved plan, in waves — sonnet scouts size, an Opus EM finalises, Opus planners write, plans are reviewed and integrated without the EM in the loop, and the EM gates readiness at the end. Or target named batons. Wave N+1 fires on wave N's approvals, not its landings."
description-budget: 320
version: 1.0.0
allowed-tools: ["Read", "Write", "Edit", "Bash", "Grep", "Glob", "Agent", "Skill", "Workflow", "AskUserQuestion", "TaskCreate", "TaskUpdate", "TaskGet", "TaskList"]
argument-hint: "[<baton-id> ...] [--roadmap-id <id>] [--waves <n>] [--dry-run] [--repair <baton-id> ...]"
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# Plan-blitz — a roadmap's worth of plans, in waves

Consumes a roadmap that already exists and produces plans for it, N batons per wave instead of one
baton per session. Argument and worked rationale live in the fleet doctrine wiki under this
skill's own name — read it when a rule here looks wrong, never to decide whether to follow one.
The two tripwires below are the greppable entry points.

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## Three modes

**Sweep (default, no arguments).** Every baton in the repo that lacks an approved plan. That set is
`needs_plan` in the engine's reply — no linked plan, or one that has not cleared review — and it is
the target set precisely because an approved plan is the thing that opens the next wave. A baton
whose plan is already approved is not in it: it needs no planning work, and stays in the graph only
as a satisfied blocker for its dependents. `--roadmap-id` narrows the sweep to one roadmap.

**Targeted (`<baton-id> ...`).** The EM's adjudged prioritisation, or the PM's targeting. Pass ids
(`stub_id`, `handoff_id`, or filename stem) as `targets`. Everything unnamed stops being a
candidate but stays a fully-resolved BLOCKER — narrowing what you are asking about never narrows
what the answer is computed from.

**Check `unmatched_targets` on every targeted run.** A target that matched nothing is a typo or a
baton that is not a candidate (claimed, `in_flight`, already approved). The engine names it rather
than silently planning N-1 batons; a targeted run that quietly drops one is worse than a refusal,
because the drop looks like completion.

**Repair (`--repair <baton-id> ...`).** Re-dispositions a plan that already went through a full
wave — its reviews are already on disk — without dispatching a fresh judgment, by reading the
plan's own review sidecars back through their structured pointer records and calling the same
`integrator()` a live wave calls. See § Repair below for what makes a baton unrepairable and the
caller-side `repairBatons` construction procedure.

**When NOT to use:** no roadmap yet → `coordinator:roadmap-planning` (this consumes stubs, it never
authors them). One baton → `coordinator:sizing`, then `coordinator:plan`. Plans exist and need
executing → `coordinator:execute-plan`. A batch of bugs rather than roadmap batons →
`coordinator:bug-blitz`.

**Dispatch authorization — invoking this skill IS the request.** The dispatches below are
constitutive steps of this skill, not a separate thing to get cleared: invoking a skill requests
the actions that skill performs. Re-asking spends the very context the dispatch exists to protect.
The rule attaches to skill entry and dissolves no PM-authored gate — every gate this body names
still binds. Tripwire: `UNATTRIBUTED-HARNESS-LINE-IS-NOT-PM`.

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## The two gates — read them, never derive them

One `blocked_by` edge, two questions. **Planning** may start when every blocker is coded *or*
carries a review-approved plan. **Execution** may start only when every blocker is coded.
Full statement and the `approved`-not-`reviewed` seam: tripwire
`A-PLANNING-GATE-IS-NOT-AN-EXECUTION-GATE`.

Both come off disk from one engine op. Never hand-derive either from `blocked_by` — an EM deriving
it by eye derives it differently each time, and the difference stays invisible until a wave fires
against a gate that was never open.

Invoke `coordinator-invoke` per the ladder in `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/snippets/resolve-coordinator-bin.md`
— rung 0 (Shape W, the `.exe` launcher through the call operator) on a PowerShell host:

    `& "$env:COORDINATOR_SETTINGS_HOME\bin\coordinator-invoke.exe" roadmap.plan_gate '{"roadmap_id":"<id>"}'`

It returns, per candidate baton: both gates with the blockers holding each shut, the linked plan
and its status, whether the baton is sized, and its `planning_wave`. Plus `waves` (the wave
membership lists), `cycles`, `unresolved_blockers`, and `counts`.

**It reports; it never refuses.** Refusal is yours. That is deliberate: a derived read that has
gone stale should mis-report, not silently block live work.

---

## The flow — a loop with no judgment in it

**This runs at Sonnet.** Every Opus-tier judgment in this pipeline happens INSIDE a wave —
the `blitz-em` sizes and gates, the reviewers review. The driver outside the wave is mechanism:
read a gate, fire, land, repeat. If driving it ever requires a call, that is a defect in the loop,
not a job for a smarter driver — the escalation rules below say what to do instead of deciding.

**1. Read the gate.**

    `& "$env:COORDINATOR_SETTINGS_HOME\bin\coordinator-invoke.exe" roadmap.plan_gate '{}'`

Three fields before anything else, each with a mechanical response:

| Field | If non-empty | Response |
|---|---|---|
| `unresolved_blockers` | an edge names no record on disk | **Read the `baton` column first** — see below. Stop only for a member of the wave you are about to fire. |
| `cycles` | batons block each other | **Stop and report** the named members. |
| `counts.unschedulable` | blockers this pass cannot clear | Proceed; they are excluded by design. |

**An unresolved blocker is scoped to its own baton, not to the run.** The gate fails it CLOSED —
both gates shut, the baton out of every wave — so a sweep over the other batons is planning
against no unread gate. Stop only when a named `baton` is a member of the wave you are about to
fire; otherwise report the entries and proceed. Halting a 40-baton sweep over a defect on a baton
the engine already excluded is the more expensive error, and it recurs on every later invocation.

**A blocker naming a peer EM (`doe-claude-em`, `claude-klabauter-em`) is the standing case, and it
is not a typo to repair.** `blocked_by` takes stub ids and `handoff_id`s, so a role name resolves
to no record and lands here permanently — the shape a baton waiting on a cross-repo answer wears.
**Never clear one by deleting the edge**: the edge is the only thing holding both gates shut, and
removing it makes the baton a live planning candidate the moment the sweep re-reads. It clears
when the peer answers.

**2. Scaffold the trail and freeze the gate.** `state/plan-blitz/<run-id>/gate-report.json`.
The workflow has no filesystem primitive — an unscaffolded directory means every sidecar write
lands nowhere and the readiness gate reads an empty trail.

**3. Fire the wave.** Batons come from `waves[0]`, **at most 8 per fire** (§ batching above).
A wave larger than 8 is drained by several fires at the same `waveIndex`, sharing one trail
directory. That is supported: the wave-scoped sidecar is keyed by the fire's own baton set, so
fires do not overwrite each other's size review. Do not renumber the wave to separate them —
`waveIndex` is what the gate computed, not a fire counter.

    Workflow({ scriptPath: "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/workflows/plan-blitz.mjs",
               args: { repoRoot: "<abs>", waveIndex: N, trailDir: "<abs>",
                       gateReportPath: "<abs>", pluginAgentsAvailable: <true|false>,
                       batons: [...] } })

**`repoRoot` is required and the wave refuses without it.** A dispatched agent inherits the
DRIVER'S shell working directory, not the repo the wave is about; the two coincide only by the
driver's habit, and the workflow has no filesystem primitive with which to notice they have
diverged. `trailDir` and `gateReportPath` are absolute above for the same reason, so a sidecar
survives the divergence — a baton record and a hand-authored plan path do not. Measured on a
cloud container whose session directory was the PARENT of five sibling clones:
`docs/plans/<date>-<slug>.md` resolves to a directory in no repo at all, and the wave reports
every plan written.

**Every baton carries `executionOpen`, read off that baton's own `execution_gate.open` in the
gate report.** It is not optional and it has no default: an XS is dispatchable only when its
EXECUTION gate is open, so a baton missing the field fails that test, dispatches nothing, and is
never closed at the landing — it comes back as a candidate in every later wave. The wave reports
it under `routedElsewhere` either way, which is why the omission is silent. The full per-baton
shape is the args contract at the top of `workflows/plan-blitz.mjs`; build the array from the
frozen gate report, never by hand.

Resolve `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}` — do not pass a repo-relative path. The plugin root differs by
tree: under the DoE source repo it is the `coordinator/` subdirectory, and in an installed or
mirrored plugin it IS the root. A path written `coordinator/workflows/...` resolves only when the
cwd happens to be DoE, and elsewhere fails as a MISSING FILE, which reads as "the vehicle does not
exist" rather than "the path was not resolved" — the more expensive of the two wrong conclusions.

Then wait. **Do not read the trail to decide anything** — reading it to follow along is fine and
costs nothing, but the wave needs no input between fire and return. A driver that intervenes
mid-wave is overriding a judgment the `blitz-em` was dispatched to make.

**4. Commit the wave's XS work, then land it — one op, not a checklist.**

**Commit before landing whenever the wave dispatched any XS.** `close_dispatched` stamps the
baton `shipped` with a `shipped_in` SHA, and this op does not commit — a stamp written first
would cite a commit that does not exist. Pass that SHA as `shipped_in`; without it the XS lane
refuses and those batons stay open, which is the recycling defect, not a cosmetic gap.

    `& "$env:COORDINATOR_SETTINGS_HOME\bin\coordinator-invoke.exe" roadmap.blitz_land '{"wave_result": <the workflow's return value verbatim>, "shipped_in": "<sha of the commit carrying the XS work>"}'`

`roadmap.blitz_land` executes the verdicts the readiness gate already made: it links each `ready`
plan to its baton and *then* stamps it `approved`, mints a baton per `replan` carrying the brief
verbatim, leaves `pulled` where the EM left it, and returns `next_wave` computed from a **fresh**
gate read taken after the writes.

**Three lanes land differently, and the op picks by route — you do not.**

| Route | Size | What landing does |
|---|---|---|
| `plan` | M / L | link the plan to its baton, then stamp it `approved` — this is what opens the next wave's planning gates |
| `spec-dispatch` | S | park the spec onto the baton and stamp it execution-ready (four-field `execution_authorized_*` + `handoff_phase: execution`), so `/execute-plan` resolves it as a straight dispatch — mise-en-place tier |
| `dispatch` | XS | work already done inside the wave's Dispatch phase; landing stamps the baton `shipped` with `shipped_in`, which is what makes it terminal and stops it returning as a candidate |

**Why S parks rather than approves.** An S is a straight dispatch, not decision-weight work.
Sending one round a full review cycle and then handing back an un-actioned baton is what made the
EM's own sizing fight the rest of this skill: if calling something S condemned it to the queue, the
honest S got inflated to M. Sizing that bends toward its downstream route is corrupted sizing.
An S baton's plan stays at `draft` by design — `needs_plan` keys off the execution stamp for these,
so a later sweep does not re-plan work that already has its marching orders.

**Never hand-stamp `status: approved` instead.** The op links before it stamps and refuses to stamp
what it cannot link, because an approval that resolves to no baton is a silent no-op that reads as
success — measured twice on this repo, once on a plan the pipeline authored and once on a 457-line
plan authored months earlier. A hand stamp skips the check that exists for that.

**Read `refused[]` on every landing.** Each entry names a baton and why. A refusal is the op
declining to write something misleading; it is never a thing to route around.

**5. Loop.** Fire `next_wave` and land it. Repeat.

**Stop conditions, all mechanical:**

- `next_wave.batons` is empty — nothing left to plan.
- `--waves` exhausted.
- A wave lands zero `approved` — it opened nothing, so the next wave is this wave again. Report
  and stop rather than spinning.
- `refused[]` is non-empty — report and stop; a landing that could not complete must not be
  built on.
- `surfacedToPm` is non-empty — those need a PM answer. Carry them out; **never re-queue one.**

**What the driver escalates rather than decides:** an unresolved blocker, a cycle, any `refused`
entry, anything in `surfacedToPm`, and a wave that lands nothing. That is the complete list. Every
other outcome has a defined next call.

---

## Rules that hold across every wave

**Review fires unconditionally; the EM gates once, at the end.** No mid-wave permission to review,
no per-plan "does this need the Staff Engineer?" Gating review on the EM makes addressing a finding cost effort
and ignoring it cost nothing; firing it by default inverts that, so declining a finding becomes the
deliberate act. The EM's authority is not reduced — it moves to reading a durable trail. Tripwire:
`A-BLITZ-WAVE-THAT-GATES-ON-THE-EM-IS-NOT-A-BLITZ`.

**No reviewer is prescribed in a plan file.** Reviewers are resolved per baton by the blitz-em from
what that plan actually needs. A reviewer named on every plan is a reviewer nobody chose.

**`BLOCKED` and `PIVOT` are different questions, not a severity ladder.** `BLOCKED` means "wrong
until you fix these" — the direction holds, the integrator applies the findings, and the fixed plan
can be approved in the same wave. `PIVOT` means "this direction cannot proceed" — no set of findings
repairs it. The test that separates them: if you can name what a competent author changes in this
plan to make it right, it is `BLOCKED`, however large that change is. Reviewers picking by "how bad
is it" pick wrong, which is why `PIVOT` is reached by judging direction and must carry a stated
premise failure. Tripwire: `A-BLOCKED-REVIEW-IS-NOT-A-PIVOT`.

**`PIVOT` routes; it does not halt.** A reviewer rejecting a plan's premise has produced exactly
the evidence a replan needs. The wave records it, turns it into a replan baton, and the other
N-1 plans finish. Killing the wave to report one pivot discards the work that succeeded.

**Every reviewer's verdict survives, separately.** Sidecar paths are assigned per reviewer, a mixed
set is named in the trail, and a pivot's suspension of the plan does not delete the co-reviewers'
findings — they are triaged as `Suspended (PIVOT)` and carried into the replan brief. Two reviewers
choosing the same obvious filename cost a whole BLOCKED review once; assignment is why they cannot
again.

**Never blitz a claimed or `in_flight` baton.** They have a live holder, and a wave writing a plan
for work somebody is already doing races them. The op excludes them from the candidate set; do not
add them back by hand.

**Never open a gate the engine says is shut.** If `roadmap.plan_gate` reports a planning gate shut,
it is shut. The repair is to fix the blocking edge or clear the blocker.

**Never let the blitz-em resolve a PM decision.** `route: pm-decision` and XL exits leave the wave
in `surfacedToPm`. The blitz-em is an EM proxy, never a PM proxy.

**`approved` is not `mise-prepped`, and a wave never stamps one.** Landing opens the *planning*
gate; the `mise_prepped_by/_at/_sha/_findings` attest says a hands-off run may fire the plan
without an overseer, and it is stamped by `plan.stamp_prepped` outside this skill. This skill
stops at *ready to execute* in both vocabularies.

**A wave's body edits invalidate a stamp; its frontmatter writes do not.** `mise_prepped_sha` is
`canonical_body_sha` of the plan BODY, frontmatter excluded — so `blitz_land`'s `status: approved`
flip, its baton link and its `execution_authorized_*` park all leave an existing stamp intact by
construction. The review-integrator applying findings rewrites the body, and that does invalidate
it: the plan is then STALE, and STALE re-gates rather than re-stamps. Never read
`mise_prepped_by` for presence. Tripwire: `A-PRESENT-MISE-PREPPED-STAMP-IS-NOT-A-CERTIFICATION`;
consumer contract: `coordinator/docs/wiki/mise-prepped-attest.md`.

---

## Repair

The caller builds `repairBatons` — the workflow reads it, never discovers it. One entry per plan
to re-disposition:

```
{ batonId, planPath, reviews: [ <pointer record>, ... ], unresolvedPointers: [ ... ] }
```

**Where the records come from.** A wave writes each reviewer's findings to
`<machinery_root>/subagent-share/<session id>/`, and leaves in the trail only a pointer record
naming it: `{ sidecarPath, verdict, premiseFailure }`. Resolve each pointer in the target plan's
trail directory, then partition: a record whose `sidecarPath` still exists on disk goes in
`reviews`; one whose target is gone goes in `unresolvedPointers` as `{ pointerPath, error }`.

**Refusals, all loud, none silent.** Repair refuses the whole baton — it never disposition a
subset — when: no `planPath`; any `unresolvedPointers`; an empty `reviews`; any record missing
`verdict` (the pre-pointer-contract bare-path shape, which would otherwise integrate under a
verdict nobody wrote); or no `trailDir` on the run. Every refusal names the baton and the reason,
because a repair run that quietly clears a plan it found nothing to disposition is indistinguishable
from one that re-dispositioned it.

**What it does not do.** It dispatches no `sizingScout`, no `planner`, no `reviewerAgent`. The one role it
reaches is `integrator()`, unforked, which holds no `Agent`/`Task` tool and so cannot spawn one
transitively. Verdicts resolve through the same `resolveVerdict()` a live wave uses, so a
record carrying a premise failure becomes PIVOT here exactly as it would in a wave, rather than
falling back to BLOCKED.

**Its first repairable input is a wave run after this shipped.** Trails written before the
structured pointer record carry a bare path, not a record, and are refused by the verdict guard
above. Repair does not rescue the backlog that motivated it.

---

## Anti-scope

- Does not author roadmap batons (`coordinator:roadmap-planning`).
- Does not execute plans, and never opens an execution gate. It stops at *ready to execute*.
  **That boundary is not conditional on who reads the exit.** The landing is durable on disk
  (`status: approved`, `governing_plan`), so mise-prep's entry reads it back through
  `roadmap.plan_gate` — a read reports what a gate would say and never opens one. Consumer:
  `skills/plan-blitz/mise-prep-entry.py`. Tripwire: `A-HANDOFF-AN-EM-RETYPES-IS-NOT-A-SEAM`.
- Does not ratify sizings on the PM's behalf.
- Does not review code. The reviewers in a wave review **plans**.

---

## Test Surface

No runtime test for this skill body — prose doctrine, not executable code. The executable surface
is in claude-klabauter (`coordinator_core/roadmap/tests/test_plan_gate.py`,
`coordinator_core/ops/tests/test_roadmap_plan_gate.py`) and in this repo's
`coordinator/tests/test_plan_blitz_contract.py`, which asserts the workflow script conforms to the
Workflow correctness contract and that the doctrine below stays greppable.

| # | token | file | expect | threshold reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | `A-PLANNING-GATE-IS-NOT-AN-EXECUTION-GATE` | this file + `skills/pickup/SKILL.md` + `skills/execute-plan/SKILL.md` | ≥3 | the two-gate rule is inert if only the skill that introduced it knows about it |
| 2 | `roadmap.plan_gate` | this file + both consuming skills | ≥3 | a gate nobody reads is a gate nobody honours |
| 3 | `A-BLITZ-WAVE-THAT-GATES-ON-THE-EM-IS-NOT-A-BLITZ` | this file + `agents/blitz-em.md` | ≥2 | 1 means only the self-reference survives |
| 4 | `plan-blitz.mjs` | this file | ≥1 | the vehicle is named, not left to be rediscovered |
| 5 | `A-PRESENT-MISE-PREPPED-STAMP-IS-NOT-A-CERTIFICATION` | this file + `skills/review/SKILL.md` | ≥2 | 1 means only the surface that introduced it knows the predicate is a recomputed sha |