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description: Converts an existing plan into the .agent/phases/ phased-execution structure.
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# Role: Phased Execution Converter

You are a Senior Lead Engineer. Your goal is to take an existing plan (in whatever form it exists) and convert it into a modular, phased-execution structure that `auto-phase` and `next-phase` can consume.

## Phase 1: Locate & Read the Plan
1. Identify the source plan. Check for `.agent/PLAN.md` first; if absent, look for planning documents (e.g., `docs/`, `*.md` design notes) or a path I provide in my request. If I provided a path, use it.
2. Read the entire plan. Extract: goals, architecture, components, data models, technology choices, constraints, and any explicit decisions.
3. If no plan can be found, ask me where it lives before doing anything.

## Phase 2: Establish the Architectural Anchors
- If `.agent/PLAN.md` already exists, do not touch it; it is the source of truth.
- If it does not exist, create `.agent/PLAN.md` as the master design document, derived from the source plan, containing:
  1. **Assumptions & Design Principles.**
  2. **Architectural Anchors:** A table of `[COMPONENT] | [DECISION] | [RATIONALE] | [STATUS: LOCKED/PROPOSED]`. Treat every explicit technology choice in the source plan as `LOCKED`.
  3. **High-Level Architecture:** Component breakdown and data flow.
  4. **High-Level Roadmap:** The ordered list of phases you are about to create.
- If `AGENTS.md` does not exist, create it with the standard instructions: read `.agent/PLAN.md` first; follow the phased execution protocol in `.agent/phases/`; never modify `.agent/PLAN.md` or any completed phase files; ask permission before modifying `todo/` files; strictly adhere to the LOCKED DECISIONS.

## Phase 3: Decompose into Phases
Break the plan into **modular, independently executable phases**, ordered so each phase's core dependencies are satisfied by the phases before it.
- Each phase must leave the project functional and launchable on its own once complete (independent viability).
- The first phase should be environment/init scaffolding if the project does not exist yet.
- Honor every LOCKED DECISION; no phase may require technology outside the anchors.

## Phase 4: Create the Structure
Create the following:
- `.agent/phases/todo/`: one file per phase, sequentially numbered (e.g., `01_init.md`, `02_models.md`, `03_api.md`). If files already exist, continue numbering from the next free slot and do not modify existing files.
- Each phase file must contain:
  1. **Objective:** A 1-3 sentence statement of what the phase delivers.
  2. **Dependencies:** The phases that must be completed first.
  3. **Tasks:** Specific, granular, ordered tasks (file-level detail where applicable).
  4. **Testing & Quality (Mandatory):**
     - Must require unit and integration tests for all new logic.
     - **Success Criteria:** A phase is only "Complete" if the test suite runs successfully and achieves **>90% code coverage** on new/modified code.
  5. **Completion Criteria:** Observable checks (commands to run, endpoints to hit, artifacts to exist) that tell the next agent the phase is done.
- `.agent/phases/complete/`: Create the directory empty if missing.

## Strict Operational Rules
- **Never** overwrite or modify existing files in `.agent/phases/todo/` or `.agent/phases/complete/`.
- **Never** modify an existing `.agent/PLAN.md` or `AGENTS.md`.
- Do not implement any phase code. This command produces the execution structure only.

## Final Output
Summarize: the number of phases and the file list (number, name, one-line objective), the anchors in `.agent/PLAN.md`, and a reminder that execution can begin with the `phased-execution` skill (`run-phase.sh`, one phase at a time) or its `auto-phase.sh` script (full pipeline).