yoi/.yoi/tickets/open/20260607-225448-replace-intake-state-with-planning/thread.md

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Decision

Decision: remove standalone preflight concept; use return-to-planning

Do not preserve preflight as a separate workflow concept, operation, or long-lived routing bucket.

The desired model is:

  • Intake/Planning prepares a Ticket until it can become ready.
  • Orchestrator reads queued/ready work and may find that implementation cannot be planned safely yet.
  • In that case, Orchestrator records the missing information/decision and returns the Ticket to planning with a visible reason.
  • There is no separate preflight_needed state, no separate preflight lane, and no Intake-authored needs_preflight gate.

Responsibility split:

  • Intake/Planning owns requirements clarification and Ticket shaping.
  • Orchestrator owns routing and may reject/return work to planning when the Ticket lacks required decisions, constraints, or implementation intent.
  • Planning owns resolving that returned reason.

Workflow/documentation implications:

  • Remove needs_preflight from Intake-facing concepts. Intake may record risk_flags, open questions, and readiness, but should not decide that a future Orchestrator preflight operation is required.
  • Replace Orchestrator preflight_needed classification with a planning-return classification such as planning_needed / return_to_planning / requirements_sync_needed.
  • Remove or fold ticket-preflight-workflow into the planning workflow/docs. The useful content is the checklist for deciding whether a Ticket has enough binding decisions and implementation intent; it should not be exposed as a separate operation/lane.
  • Risk flags are reviewer/orchestrator attention markers, not stop gates.
  • If Orchestrator cannot name a concrete missing decision/information item, it should not return the Ticket to planning merely because the area is risky; it should proceed with an IntentPacket plus escalation/reviewer focus.

Acceptance impact:

  • The implementation should update workflow-state terminology, prompts/workflows, panel labels/actions, and tests so missing implementation readiness is represented as a return to planning, not as preflight_needed.
  • Existing mentions of preflight_needed should be removed, renamed, or treated as migration/legacy compatibility only where needed.

Intake summary

Existing Ticket was refined as an implementation-ready planning-state replacement task. The binding direction is to replace the user-facing intake workflow state with a planning-oriented state/lane, preserve the Intake role name as separate terminology, and remove standalone preflight / needs_preflight concepts from the user-facing workflow. Orchestrator missing-readiness routing should record a concrete reason and return the Ticket to planning, not create a separate preflight lane. Implementation should update state parsing/normalization or migration, transition graph, panel labels/actions, role/workflow prompts/docs, Ticket tools/CLI surfaces, and tests. Risk flags for routing/review attention: workflow-state, migration, panel-ux, orchestrator-routing, prompt-workflow-docs. No separate preflight gate remains; risk flags are attention markers, not blockers.


State changed

Ticket has enough binding decisions, invariants, acceptance criteria, and validation expectations for Orchestrator routing. Marking ready for user queueing; implementation must not start until the user/panel performs ready -> queued and Orchestrator accepts it.


State changed

Ticket を workspace-panel が queued にしました。


Decision

Routing decision: implementation_ready

Reason:

  • Ticket body and thread contain the binding product decision: replace the user-facing intake workflow state/lane with a planning-oriented state and remove standalone preflight / needs_preflight concepts.
  • The Intake summary explicitly marks this as implementation-ready and separates the Intake Pod role name from workflow-state terminology.
  • Remaining uncertainty is implementation scope management across model parsing, transition graph, Panel labels/actions, routing/workflow prompts, docs, and tests; these are bounded engineering tasks with clear reviewer criteria.

Evidence checked:

  • Ticket body requirements and acceptance criteria.
  • Thread decision: remove standalone preflight concept and use return-to-planning.
  • Thread intake summary and latest ready -> queued event.
  • Workspace state: no matching branch/worktree exists; only this Ticket record is dirty from queue/intake updates.
  • Code/workflow map search for TicketWorkflowState, workflow_state, intake, planning, preflight_needed, needs_preflight, transition graph, Panel derivation, and workflow docs.
  • Ticket doctor: 0 errors; existing warnings are unrelated legacy closed-Ticket diagnostics.

IntentPacket:

Intent:

  • Replace user-facing Ticket workflow state intake with a planning-oriented state/lane and make Orchestrator missing-readiness routing return Tickets visibly to planning rather than using standalone preflight concepts.

Binding decisions / invariants:

  • Use a planning-oriented workflow state; prefer planning unless implementation finds a stronger concise name.
  • Keep the Intake role/profile/persona name separate from workflow state naming.
  • Do not preserve preflight as a separate workflow state, lane, or long-lived operation.
  • Remove Intake-authored needs_preflight as a stop gate; risk flags/open questions remain attention markers.
  • Orchestrator may return queued or ready Tickets to planning only with a concrete missing decision/information reason.
  • If Orchestrator cannot name a concrete missing item, it should not return solely because the area is risky; it should proceed with IntentPacket plus escalation/reviewer focus.
  • Preserve auditability through typed state-change/routing events.
  • Do not redesign implementation worktree/coder/reviewer mechanics except where routing returns to planning.
  • Existing workflow_state: intake must be handled compatibly and normalized/emitted according to a clear policy.

Requirements / acceptance criteria:

  • Replace TicketWorkflowState::Intake user-facing/model output with planning-oriented state.
  • Define and implement legacy intake parsing/migration behavior.
  • Update transition graph to planning -> ready -> queued -> inprogress -> done and support return-to-planning from ready/queued with reason.
  • Update Ticket tools, CLI, Panel labels/actions, prompts/workflows/docs, and tests that treat intake as workflow state.
  • Remove or fold standalone preflight_needed routing/workflow language into planning return / requirements-sync language.
  • Panel should show planning/clarification/preflight-preparation terminology and launch path when no claimed Planning/Intake Pod exists.
  • If a claimed live/restorable Intake/Planning Pod exists, Orchestrator return-to-planning should notify/send it the reason where a suitable existing path exists or add a clear follow-up if not practical in the first implementation.
  • Tests must cover state parsing/normalization, transition graph, Panel action derivation, and return-to-planning behavior.

Implementation latitude:

  • Coder may implement legacy intake as an accepted input alias normalized to planning, or migrate fixtures/records where safe; avoid broad unrelated Ticket rewrites.
  • Coder may keep internal role strings and Pod names containing intake where they refer to the Intake role, not workflow state.
  • Coder may stage removal of ticket-preflight-workflow by updating active references/guidance and leaving compatibility files only if removing them would break workflow discovery unexpectedly; report the boundary.
  • Coder may choose exact helper names and test split.

Escalate if:

  • Removing needs_preflight requires a storage migration beyond typed metadata compatibility.
  • Workflow discovery cannot tolerate removing/renaming ticket-preflight-workflow without a separate migration.
  • Notifying claimed Planning/Intake Pods requires a new durable relation/notification mechanism rather than existing local role-session claims and peer notification paths.
  • Parser normalization would make existing Tickets ambiguous or doctor-invalid without a broad migration.

Validation:

  • Ticket crate tests for workflow-state parsing/normalization and transition graph.
  • Tool tests for workflow transitions, including return-to-planning from ready/queued and stale transition rejection.
  • Panel tests for planning labels/actions and no heuristic fallback to intake.
  • Prompt/workflow/doc search ensuring preflight_needed / needs_preflight are removed or explicitly marked legacy compatibility.
  • Focused CLI/tool tests selected by coder.
  • cargo fmt --check.
  • git diff --check.
  • cargo run -q -p yoi -- ticket doctor.
  • Because Ticket schema/tools/Panel/prompts/workflows are touched, final merge-completion should include nix build .#yoi.

Current code map:

  • crates/ticket/src/lib.rs and crates/ticket/src/tool.rs: TicketWorkflowState, transition graph, tools, doctor/tests.
  • crates/tui/src/workspace_panel.rs and crates/tui/src/multi_pod.rs: Panel row derivation/actions and queue/return flows.
  • crates/yoi/src/ticket_cli.rs: CLI parsing/display/scaffold tests.
  • crates/client/src/ticket_role.rs: role launch guidance and terminology.
  • .yoi/workflow/ticket-intake-workflow.md, .yoi/workflow/ticket-orchestrator-routing.md, .yoi/workflow/ticket-preflight-workflow.md, .yoi/workflow/multi-agent-workflow.md: active workflow guidance.
  • resources/prompts if active prompt text refers to workflow-state intake/preflight.

Critical risks / reviewer focus:

  • Do not confuse Intake role identity with planning workflow state.
  • Legacy workflow_state: intake must not break existing Tickets.
  • Return-to-planning must require a concrete reason and remain auditable.
  • Removing preflight language must not remove the useful checklist for missing binding decisions/invariants; it should be folded into planning/readiness guidance.
  • Panel must not infer state from labels/readiness/needs_preflight heuristics.

State changed

Accepted queued implementation after reading the Ticket, workspace state, and workflow-state code map. This acceptance precedes worktree creation and coder/reviewer Pod spawning.