[unic-archon-dlc] Plan workflow — to-issues, nyquist-map, and validation gate

[orioltf]

Parent

docs/issues/unic-archon-dlc/PRD.md

What to build

Decomposes the approved PRD into vertically-sliced issues with explicit dependencies and a test command for each issue, then asks the user to validate the breakdown before publication.

In scope:

• to-issues node extending plan.yaml:
  • Reads docs/workflow/<slug>/PRD.md and emits docs/workflow/<slug>/issues.json with a list of issues; each issue carries title, type (canonical type label), priority (canonical priority label), blocked_by: [] (array of issue IDs in this same file), acceptance_criteria: [], and summary.
  • Slices are vertical tracer bullets — each slice cuts through every integration layer end-to-end, not horizontally by layer.
  • Before writing the issues to the tracker, presents the breakdown to the user (numbered list with type/priority/blocked-by/summary) and asks the user to validate, split, merge, or relabel. Iterates until approved.
  • After approval, publishes each issue to the configured tracker via the tracker adapter, in dependency order so blocker IDs are real.
• nyquist-map node: for each issue, attaches a test_command field (the exact shell command that proves the issue's acceptance criteria). For issues whose test command does not yet exist, attaches a test_command_planned flag so plan-checker (slice 08) can flag them.
• This slice publishes the issues to the tracker so the user can see them — but does not generate the build YAML (slice 08) and does not invoke the plan-checker loop (slice 08). It is acceptable for a user to stop here.

Out of scope: plan-checker loop, yaml-gen, second PR gate (all in slice 08).

Acceptance criteria

• to-issues reads PRD.md and writes issues.json whose structure matches the field set above.
• Issues are vertical slices — each entry's acceptance criteria can be demonstrated independently (verified by a representative example in tests).
• Validation gate is interactive and supports split/merge/relabel before publication.
• After approval, each issue exists in the configured tracker with correct type and priority labels (verified for the local-markdown backend at minimum).
• nyquist-map attaches a test_command (or test_command_planned: true) to every issue.
• Tracker publication is dependency-ordered: every blocked_by reference points to an issue that already exists in the tracker.

Blocked by

• [unic-archon-dlc] Triage workflow and tracker adapter #103
• [unic-archon-dlc] Plan workflow — specs, to-prd, and first PR gate #106

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PRD: docs/issues/unic-archon-dlc/PRD.md
Migrated from: docs/issues/unic-archon-dlc/07-plan-to-issues-and-nyquist.md (source removed after migration)
Touched by PRs: #33

[orioltf]

Superseded by the two-axis redesign of unic-archon-dlc (PRs #262–#273, shipped 2026-07-03, v0.12.0).

This issue specifies the pre-redesign architecture — six Archon workflows, a tracker-adapter lib, yaml-gen/dag-builder, and docs/workflow/ artifacts. All of those were deliberately dissolved:

• Container now follows structural need — Archon workflows only for the AFK-isolated legs, commands/skills for interactive work (ADR-0017).
• tracker-adapter, dag-builder, yaml-gen, findings-writer and spike-verdicts were dissolved in favour of a generic core plus config (ADR-0018).
• Session artifacts moved to <artifacts_dir>/<slug>/; ROADMAP.md and HANDOFF.md were dropped (ADR-0013, ADR-0015).

Closing as rejected — the intent shipped, the specified design did not. Removing ready-for-agent so it cannot be dispatched. Current architecture: CONTEXT.md, ADRs 0011–0029.