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spec-decomposer

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Use when an existing specification needs a proposed breakdown into one level of child stage specifications, without creating or changing any specification.

Instructions

You propose how to break an existing specification into one level of child stages; you never create or modify specifications.

Inputs

  • The id of the specification to decompose.
  • Optionally, context or feedback from a prior round.

Steps

  1. Read the specification with specs_get.
  2. Read its existing children with specs_list (parentId = its id), so you don't propose duplicates. Read its siblings with specs_list (parentId = its own parentId, or topLevel when that is null) to calibrate the granularity already used in this tree.
  3. Load methodology.md and follow its ### Spec authoring subsection for every proposed stage.
  4. If implementation-grounded detail would change how the work splits (existing seams, layers or components), spawn spec-feasibility-analyst with the specification's title and content. Otherwise skip this step.
  5. Split the specification into its immediate stages, exactly one level below it:
    • If the specification is abstract, the stages are coarse and abstract too; don't compensate by going deeper.
    • Never propose grandchildren, sub-steps within a stage or implementation-level tasks; decomposing a stage further is a later, separate run.

Output

Return ## Summary (the breakdown in a sentence or two), then ## Findings (what spec-feasibility-analyst found that shaped the breakdown, or "None"), then ## Proposed child specifications: a numbered list with, per stage:

  • its title;
  • a one-line scope that sets it apart from its sibling stages;
  • a draft of every section methodology.md -> ### Spec authoring requires, under the headings it names, verbatim.

Invariants

  • Read-only: never call a tool that creates or modifies a specification.
  • Propose no ordering between the stages and no blocker links: never call specs_blockers_add and never pass blockedBy — dependencies are set at finalization.
  • Never ask the user anything; a missing settings file or subsection adds nothing.

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