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magnus919_agent-skills/implementation-planning/templates/risk-decision-verification.md
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f82515e85d feat(implementation-planning): add implementation planning skill (#217)
Add a reusable implementation-planning skill for turning approved
requirements or specifications into executable, dependency-aware delivery
plans. Covers work breakdown into vertical slices, dependency mapping with
critical-path analysis, ownership assignment, sequencing and parallelism,
staged rollout strategy with rollback paths, and verification traceability
against the original requirement.

Includes:
- SKILL.md with valid frontmatter, entry gate for prerequisite approval,
  progressive-disclosure file map, and handoff table to specialist skills
- README.md with all five required human-facing sections
- references/discovery-brief.md comparing existing planning material and
  defining ownership boundaries
- templates/ for implementation plan, dependency record, and risk/decision/
  verification sections
- evals/evals.json with six output-quality cases covering ambiguous
  requirements, cross-repository dependencies, data migration, risky
  rollout, unapproved prerequisite rejection, and multi-team ownership
  conflict
- Catalog and routing updates (README, skill-triggers, generated catalogs)

Closes #186

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Risk, Decision, and Verification Record

Complements the implementation plan template. Fill one record per implementation plan.

Risk register

ID Risk description Severity (1-5) Likelihood (1-5) Impact Mitigation Owner Status
RSK-1 [what could go wrong] [1-5] [1-5] [blast radius, what depends on this] [what reduces likelihood or impact] [name] [open / mitigated / accepted]

Risk heatmap notes

  • Severity 4-5: requires explicit mitigation and escalation path.
  • Likelihood 4-5: requires a contingency plan with trigger condition.
  • Both severity and likelihood >= 4: flag for leadership review before plan approval.

Decision log

Resolved decisions

ID Decision Options considered Chosen Rationale Decided by Date
DEC-1 [what was decided] [A, B, C] [B] [why B over A and C] [name or role] [date]

Unresolved decisions

ID Decision needed Options Blocked by Impact of delay Owner Deadline Status
DEC-U1 [what must be decided] [A, B] [waiting on architecture review] [blocks WS-3 start] [name] [date] [open / escalated]

Assumptions register

ID Assumption Basis (evidence or guess) Valid until Owner If invalid...
ASM-1 [what we assume to be true] [data, precedent, or explicit guess] [date or milestone] [name] [what changes]

Verification checklist

Trace every requirement from the approved input to a verification activity.

Requirement ID Requirement summary Workstream Acceptance criterion Verification method Verifier Evidence artifact Status
REQ-1 [from approved spec] [WS-1] [testable condition] [automated test / manual review / demo / monitoring] [name or role] [test report, review sign-off] [pending / passed / failed]

Verification methods reference

Method When to use Evidence
Automated test Deterministic behavior Test run output, CI pass
Manual review Subjective quality, UX, docs Reviewer sign-off
Demo / walkthrough Integrated behavior across teams Demo recording or notes
Production monitoring Rollout health, SLO compliance Dashboard screenshot, alert silence
Data reconciliation Migration correctness Row counts, checksums, diff report

Rollback verification

For each rollout stage, verify that rollback works before proceeding.

Stage Rollback test performed? Rollback time (actual) Data integrity verified? Signed off by
Stage 1 [yes / no] [minutes] [yes / no] [name]