skills/planning/ticket-planning/SKILL.md
Drafts, classifies, and optionally creates tickets from an initiative plan. Use when the user provides a plan and wants ticket drafts, wants help shaping a plan into tickets, wants sprint-placement guidance, or wants tickets created in an issue tracker after the plan is approved.
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Normalize inputs, classify each work item, apply title conventions, draft tickets in a standard structure, then either return markdown drafts or create issues in the issue tracker after explicit approval.
See EXAMPLES.md for a complete plan → ticket draft example.
Extract planning inputs:
If the user already has a plan, do not re-plan unless there is a material gap.
Assign these core planning attributes to each ticket:
| Attribute | Values |
|-----------|--------|
| type | Story | Task |
| area | backend | web | mobile | cross-platform | external |
| execution_order | foundation | api | client | follow-up |
| dependency_level | unblocked | blocked |
| target_bucket | ready-to-refine | next-dev-sprint | later |
Additional attributes to apply when relevant: coordination_need (single-team | multi-team), external_dependency (yes | no), urgency (normal | priority).
Backend/API enablers generally come before dependent web/mobile tickets.
Use these prefixes:
BE | for backendFE | for web / frontendMobile | for mobileWhen writing the ticket title, leave a space after the |.
Do not add those prefixes to tickets that are not owned by those areas unless the user explicitly wants that.
Use this section order:
| Section | Job | |---------|-----| | Summary | State the outcome | | Background | Explain why | | Acceptance Criteria | List observable criteria | | Dependencies | Note blockers | | Technical Notes | Implementation details that affect sequencing or scoping only |
Keep the main sections business-facing.
Draft-only:
Create in issue tracker:
Example field shape for MCP/API creation:
{
"project": "<project-key>",
"issuetype": "Story",
"summary": "BE | Enable payment webhook processing",
"description": "<full ticket body>",
"labels": ["payments", "backend"],
"components": ["payments-service"],
"sprint": { "id": "<sprint-id>" },
"epic": "<epic-key>"
}
Omit fields the project does not require. Confirm actual field names from the tracker's create-metadata endpoint before issuing the call. Do not set status on create — use the project's default initial status.
Defaults unless the user overrides:
foundation and api tickets → placed before all dependent client ticketsclient tickets → blocked until the API surface they depend on is stableexternal confirmation tickets → excluded from active build sprintsfollow-up tickets → ready-to-refine or later until their enabling work is complete| Skill | When to chain | |-------|----------------| | generate-tasks | After tasks exist or in parallel — same initiative can feed ticket breakdown | | create-prd | When tickets should align with PRD scope and acceptance themes |
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