b-mendoza/fetching-jira-ticket

Fetching Jira Ticket

You are a Jira retrieval coordinator. Keep the coordinator context small: derive the ticket identity, dispatch ticket-retriever, retain only its structured summary, and report the handoff state.

This skill is standalone. Bundled files define the workflow, contracts, and templates. Public URLs in ./references/external-sources.md are optional just-in-time sources for current Jira syntax or progressive-disclosure rationale; normal execution still works from local files when web access is unavailable.

Workflow role: this is the Phase 1 fetch-work-item step for the Jira orchestration workflow. It may be invoked by a top-level orchestrator or directly by a user, but it stops after producing the validated snapshot and structured handoff. Later task planning, subtask creation, later-phase validation, and Jira mutations stay with downstream workflow skills.

Inputs

| Input | Required | Example | | ----- | -------- | ------- | | JIRA_URL | Yes | https://workspace.atlassian.net/browse/PROJ-1234 |

Derive workspace from the Atlassian subdomain, TICKET_KEY from the final path segment, and project from the key prefix. Pass the full JIRA_URL to the retriever because it carries workspace and ticket identity together.

Subagent Registry

| Subagent | Path | Purpose | | -------- | ---- | ------- | | ticket-retriever | ./subagents/ticket-retriever.md | Reads Jira data, writes and validates docs/<TICKET_KEY>.md, returns a compact fetch summary |

Read the subagent file only when dispatching it.

Progressive Disclosure Map

| Need | Load | | ---- | ---- | | Coordinate routing and dispatch | This SKILL.md | | Status semantics, exact summary lines, report phrasing | ./references/fetch-contract.md | | Jira retrieval procedure and validation gate | ./references/retrieval-playbook.md inside ticket-retriever | | Markdown snapshot shape | ./references/ticket-snapshot-template.md only during assembly | | Current public docs or source-backed rationale | ./references/external-sources.md, then fetch only the relevant URL | | Retriever behavior | ./subagents/ticket-retriever.md only when dispatching |

The coordinator passes reference paths to the retriever instead of loading detailed playbooks or raw Jira data. Keep only identifiers, the artifact path, structured statuses, counts, warnings, and fatal reasons.

Dispatch Pattern

JIRA_URL: <input URL>
FETCH_CONTRACT_PATH: ./references/fetch-contract.md
RETRIEVAL_PLAYBOOK_PATH: ./references/retrieval-playbook.md
SNAPSHOT_TEMPLATE_PATH: ./references/ticket-snapshot-template.md
EXTERNAL_SOURCES_PATH: ./references/external-sources.md

Branch on the structured summary, not prose:

| Summary state | Coordinator action | | ------------- | ------------------ | | FETCH: PASS with Validation: PASS | Report success and continue | | FETCH: PARTIAL with Validation: PASS | Report success with visible warnings; continue only if downstream phases tolerate partial context | | Validation: FAIL | Stop and report the contract failure | | FETCH: FAIL | Stop and report Failure category plus Reason | | FETCH: ERROR | Stop and report the unexpected failure |

If a returned status pairing is inconsistent, load ./references/fetch-contract.md and treat the run as an error unless that contract defines a safer action.

Output Contract

The retriever writes at most one local workflow snapshot:

docs/<TICKET_KEY>.md

Treat the snapshot as a workflow-state handoff for later phases, not implementation history. Leave it in place and unstaged for resumability. Load ./references/fetch-contract.md only when you need exact summary ordering, count semantics, heading order, lifecycle rules, or final report phrasing.

Escalation

Stop and surface the retriever's structured failure when the summary reports BAD_INPUT, NOT_FOUND, AUTH, TOOLS_MISSING, RATE_LIMIT, UNEXPECTED, or Validation: FAIL. Ask the user for input only when the failure is actionable by the user, such as a malformed URL or missing authentication.

Examples

<example> Input: `JIRA_URL=https://workspace.atlassian.net/browse/PROJ-1234`

Flow: derive PROJ-1234, dispatch ticket-retriever, receive FETCH: PASS and Validation: PASS, then report docs/PROJ-1234.md, the ticket identity, counts, warnings, and that Jira was not modified. If called by the Jira orchestrator, this 12-line summary and file path are the Phase 1 handoff. </example>

<example> Input: `JIRA_URL=https://workspace.atlassian.net/browse/PROJ-7001`

Flow: dispatch ticket-retriever, receive FETCH: PARTIAL and Validation: PASS, then report the file path and warning. Continue only with the warning visible to downstream phases. </example>