plan-to-epic

To turn an implementation plan into linked epics with scoped tasks, you can automate the parsing of plan headers to extract goals and architecture, apply a one-sentence scoping test to split complex tasks, and generate epics with inferred dependencies and cycle-detection validation.

Automatic dependency inference works by analyzing the extracted tasks from plan sections to map relationships, applying DAG validation to detect cycles, and ensuring the generated epic maintains a verifiable structure with properly linked tasks and phase-based scoping.

Yes, you can incorporate a design doc when converting a plan into a Beads epic. Providing the path to an implementation plan and an optional design doc allows the system to extract goals, architecture, and tech stack to emit epics with scoped tasks and inferred dependencies.

The one-sentence scoping test is a mechanism applied to tasks identified from plan sections to split complex tasks into clearly scoped, three-field-separated items, ensuring the generated Beads epic maintains a verifiable structure with properly linked dependencies.

Yes, Beads epic generation supports phase-based scoping and DAG validation. It handles phase-based scoping during task extraction and applies cycle-detection validation to ensure dependency links form a verifiable directed acyclic graph structure.

Dependency cycle detection fails when inferred task dependencies form circular references. The DAG validation process catches these cycles during Beads epic generation to prevent invalid dependency links from being emitted into the verifiable structure.