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Automating specification and planning for agile delivery is achieved by skipping research and generating incremental specs, technical plans, tasks, and implementation directly from existing code. This fast-path workflow executes five stages: specification, planning, tasks, implementation, and verification.

Yes, you can generate task breakdowns and technical plans from existing code without research by using a no-research fast orchestration process. It analyzes existing code and specifications to directly drive outputs like spec.md, plan.md, and tasks.md for incremental changes.

Gate validation enforces scoped changes through GATE_DESIGN, GATE_TASKS, and GATE_VERIFY checkpoints during the five-stage workflow. These gate policies implement authorization checks and risk controls, ensuring specification, planning, and implementation stages meet governance requirements before proceeding.

The best way to validate small to medium code changes quickly is using a five-stage workflow that skips research and delivers end-to-end work. It covers specification, planning, tasks, implementation, and verification, producing verification reports to confirm rapid validation.

Fast-path agile story generation requires existing code and prior specifications as input context to function correctly. Because it skips the research phase, it relies entirely on analyzing your current codebase and existing specifications to generate incremental specs, technical plans, and task breakdowns.

You should avoid no-research fast orchestration for large projects lacking existing code or specifications, as it skips the research phase entirely. It is designed specifically for small to medium changes requiring rapid validation, relying on current code context to drive generation safely.