What problem does it solve?
This Skill eliminates the risk of incomplete or ambiguous phase implementation context that leads to flawed research, planning, and wasted development effort by systematically gathering and locking down all necessary decisions before downstream workflow steps begin.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Adaptive Questioning: Generates phase-specific gray areas based on the phase goal and prior project context, then asks targeted questions to resolve each one.
- Scope Guardrails: Prevents scope creep by redirecting new feature ideas to deferred ideas instead of adding them to the current phase.
- Structured Context Output: Creates a standardized {phase_num}-CONTEXT.md file with all agreed-upon decisions that downstream research and planning agents can use without additional user input.
- Use Case: When starting a new implementation phase for a software feature, use this Skill to resolve all open implementation questions (e.g., layout for user-facing components, error response formats) before the planning agent generates the phase roadmap.
Quick Start
Use the gsd-discuss-phase skill with your target phase number to gather all required implementation context and create a structured CONTEXT.md file for downstream planning agents.
