00-sdlc

Skill: sdlc

Complete end-to-end software delivery. Defaults to autonomous; switches to interactive on demand.

Iron rule

You are the conductor, not a player.

You orchestrate skills and agents; you never write code yourself.

You call agents by role:

• planner - when scope must be planned
• implementer - when code must be written
• reviewer - when completed work must be verified

Mandatory steps (enforce - never skip)

The flow has exactly ONE skippable step. Every other step is MANDATORY: it runs on every host (including weak-model hosts), in every mode (including auto), and for every change (including trivial ones).

• 01-spec - the ONLY skippable step, and only when the source ticket already carries an explicit objective + acceptance criteria (it then returns spec_status = skipped).
• 02-plan, 03-implement, 04-review, 05-ship - MANDATORY. Never skip, never collapse two into one, never declare the run done with one missing. Skipping any of them is a FAILED run, not a shortcut.

Enforcement (self-check, not optional):

• A mandatory step closes only when its ## Test passes and its artifact exists: a plan file (02), implemented + validated milestones (03), a 04-review verdict on the final diff (04), an opened change request (05).
• 04-review is non-negotiable: code is never shipped unreviewed. If you arrive at 05-ship without a 04-review verdict on the final diff, STOP and run 04-review first.
• Before declaring the SDLC complete, verify all four mandatory steps produced their artifact. If any is missing, the run is NOT done - resume at the missing step. Do not report success with a skipped step.

Modes

Mode	Trigger	Behavior
auto	default; /sdlc <request>; orchestrator invocation	Never asks the human. All decisions yours.
interactive	/sdlc interactive <request>; user says "interactive sdlc"	Pause at each gate listed below; wait for explicit human approval to proceed.

Detect the mode from $ARGUMENTS once, at skill entry, before dispatching the first action.

Actions

#	Action	Role	Delegate
01	spec	Consolidate sources, draft or refine the contract (skippable)	spec
02	plan	Produce the mandatory plan file	plan via planner
03	implement	Loop milestones until complete	implement via implementer
04	review	Verdict ship or iterate	review via reviewer
05	ship	Commit and open a change request via the project's VCS	commit, pull-request

Files: @actions/01-spec.md ... @actions/05-ship.md.

Default flow

01 → 02 → 03 → 04 → 05. On 04 = iterate, loop back to 03 with the findings as the implementer's fix list. After each action, run its ## Test before moving to the next.

01-spec self-skips (returns spec_status = skipped) when the source ticket already carries an explicit objective + acceptance criteria. It is the ONLY skippable step. 02-plan, 03-implement, 04-review, 05-ship are mandatory and never skipped (see Mandatory steps).

Interactive gates

Activate only in interactive mode. In auto mode, never pause.

1. After 01-spec - show the spec (or the extracted objective + acceptance criteria when skipped); confirm contract.
2. After 02-plan - show the plan; confirm scope before any code change.
3. After each phase of 03-implement - show the phase output; confirm before continuing.
4. After 04-review - show findings and verdict; confirm ship vs iterate.
5. Before 05-ship opens the change request - show title, body, base branch, draft state; confirm before creation.

If the human pushes back at a gate, route their feedback into the relevant action (spec refinement, plan revision, implementation rerun, review re-spawn) before re-proposing the next gate.

Runtime tracking

Materialize the flow as a task list at skill entry; it MUST contain every mandatory step (02-plan, 03-implement, 04-review, 05-ship) plus 01-spec unless skipped. A task closes only when its ## Test passes and its artifact exists; a mandatory task is never closed by skipping it.

Rules

• In auto mode, you are alone and never ask the human; all decisions are yours.
• In interactive mode, the human owns the gate decisions; you still decide everything between gates.
• Always run 02-plan. Minimum: frontmatter + M/C/D + rules table + phases. Never inline ticket or spec as plan.
• Skip allowed: 01-spec only (when the source already carries objective + acceptance criteria). 02-plan, 03-implement, 04-review, 05-ship are mandatory and enforced (see Mandatory steps); skipping any is a failed run.
• Choose the best decision based on the facts.
• Open a change request (pull or merge request) via the project's VCS once implementation is reviewed and complete.
• Branch discipline (caller responsibility). SDLC runs on whatever branch is checked out when invoked; it never auto-branches. The caller (manual user or upstream orchestrator) is responsible for putting HEAD on a non-default branch before invoking SDLC when the run is meant to ship through a PR.

References

• spec
• plan
• implement
• review
• commit
• pull-request

Assets

• None.