ln-220-story-coordinator

To decompose Epics into ready-to-implement Stories, build an IDEAL plan of 5-10 Stories before evaluating existing ones. This Decompose-First pattern ensures vertical storytelling and applies strict gating on acceptance criteria and status rules.

Routing Stories across multiple Epics involves evaluating your IDEAL plan against existing stories and resolving NEEDS_NEW_EPIC conditions when necessary. The coordinator determines the execution mode—CREATE, REPLAN, or ADD—to maintain kanban workflow alignment.

Standards research integrates into Story planning through delegation to ln-001, with results stored directly in Story Technical Notes. This ensures domain-appropriate standards are applied during Phase 3 planning before Phase 5 worker delegation begins.

You need to provide Epic context and your IDEAL Story plan to generate or replan Epics using the coordinator. This input enables automated end-to-end Story planning and supports structured orchestratorBrief generation for the pipeline lead.

You can integrate Epic storytelling with kanban workflows through Linear workflow support and self-check phases. After workers complete their tasks, the coordinator performs structured self-checks to verify acceptance criteria compliance and status rule enforcement.

Building an IDEAL plan before examining existing Stories establishes a target structure of 5-10 Stories for an Epic. This prevents bias from current incomplete states and enforces strict gating on acceptance criteria during execution mode determination.