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Explicit-only: pick the next `bd ready` bead via risk-first heuristics; verify dependency/readiness, add missing deps, then mark in progress and comment.

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Select

Intent

Choose the next bead by risk, hardness, and blast radius; gate on codebase readiness and dependencies before marking in_progress; leave a short rationale comment.

Selection rubric

  • Feature-first: if any ready items are feature, evaluate all ready features (bd show).
  • Type order (fallback): task > bug > epic > chore.
  • Priority: P0 > P1 > P2 > P3 > P4.
  • Risk: migrations, auth/security, infra, data loss/consistency, breaking API/CLI, perf regressions, ambiguous acceptance.
  • Hardness: vague scope, multiple subsystems, unknown deps, heavy verification.
  • Blast radius: widely used modules, shared config, CI/build pipeline, core user paths.
  • Tie-break: priority → strongest signals → earliest in bd ready.
  • Readiness gate: never start a bead if required scaffolding or prerequisites are missing; add deps and restart selection.

Workflow

  1. Run bd ready and keep the returned order.
  2. If any ready features exist, bd show <id> for each and score (risk/hardness/blast).
  3. Otherwise, score ready items by type order and priority.
  4. Check readiness for the top candidate (repo-only):
    • Confirm required scaffolding/infra exists in the repo (app skeleton, build config, migrations, auth setup, etc.).
    • If something is missing, look for an existing prerequisite bead and link it first:
      • Link: bd dep add <candidate-id> <dep-id> -t blocks
    • Only create a new prerequisite bead if none exists:
      • Create: bd create "Scaffold: <thing>" --type=task --priority=<p>
      • Link: bd dep add <candidate-id> <dep-id> -t blocks
    • Re-run bd ready and restart selection if you added any deps.
  5. Pick the highest-scored ready bead after the readiness gate passes.
  6. Mark it in progress: bd update <id> --status in_progress.
  7. Comment rationale: bd comments add <id> "Selected first: <short rationale>".

Output

  • Print: Selected <id>: <rationale>.
  • If bd ready is empty, report "No ready work" and stop.
  • If deps were added, print: Blocked <id> on <dep-ids>; re-run selection.