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plan-to-tickets

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Use when a large plan, PRD, feature, refactor, research plan, or multi-step coding task must be split into small ready-for-agent tickets with acceptance criteria, verification commands, blockers, and vertical tracer-bullet slices. Do not use for small tasks that should be implemented directly, single-bug fixes, or chat-only summaries.

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  3. Review the proposed files and risks before you approve installation.
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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/AnastasiyaW/claude-code-config/blob/HEAD/skills/plan-to-tickets/SKILL.md

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Plan To Tickets

Turn a large plan into small, independently executable tickets. Use this before handing a broad plan to agents, before long autonomous work, or when the user asks for tickets/issues/slices.

Output Location

If no issue tracker is explicitly selected, write local tickets under:

<project>/.agent/tickets/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>/

Each ticket is one Markdown file:

TICKET-001-short-slug.md

Required Ticket Shape

Each ticket must include these headings exactly:

  • ## Status
  • ## Parent
  • ## What To Build
  • ## Acceptance Criteria
  • ## Verification
  • ## Blocked By
  • ## Notes

## Status must contain ready-for-agent only when all acceptance criteria and verification steps are concrete.

## Acceptance Criteria must contain checklist items (- [ ] ...).

## Verification must contain at least one command, script, test, artifact check, or explicit manual-review gate.

Slicing Rules

  • Prefer vertical tracer bullets: a narrow complete path through the required layers, not "all backend" then "all UI" then "all tests".
  • A ticket must be independently verifiable.
  • Put prefactoring first only when it makes a later slice smaller or safer.
  • Keep dependencies explicit in ## Blocked By; write None when it can start immediately.
  • Do not include stale-prone file paths unless the path is already a stable contract or current codebase evidence.
  • Do not publish external tracker issues unless the user asked for that tracker.

Workflow

  1. Read the plan/spec and current repo context needed to avoid fake tickets.
  2. Draft ticket files in dependency order.
  3. Run the validator:
python "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\claude-code-config\scripts\validate_agent_tickets.py" --tickets-dir <ticket-dir>
  1. Fix every validator failure before claiming the ticket split is ready.
  2. Report the ticket directory and the count of ready tickets.

Gotchas

  • Horizontal tickets overload later agents. If a ticket cannot be verified alone, split it differently.
  • "Implement feature" is not an acceptance criterion. ACs must describe observable behavior or artifacts.
  • "Run tests" alone is weak verification. Name the test command or the artifact that proves success.
  • Do not use this to postpone work. Ticketization is for large plans; small tasks should be implemented directly.