validating-task-plans

Validating task plans requires checking specifications against quality gates for clarity, scope, and priority. This skill applies a six-phase validation framework to ensure complete coverage, proper grouping, and testable acceptance criteria before task creation.

Task plan validation is the process of rigorously reviewing generated task specifications to prevent poorly defined work. You need it when decomposing epics, processing review findings, or running batch task generation to ensure expert-planning quality standards.

Checking for circular dependencies in batch generated tasks is handled through dependency validation protocols. The validation framework automatically detects and prevents circular dependencies between task specifications before they are finalized.

Enforcing quality gates on task titles and acceptance criteria is supported by validating verb-first titles, specific file references, and testable criteria. The framework checks these standards automatically during the task validation process.

Task validation works for review findings, epic decompositions, and any batch task generation processes. The six-phase validation framework applies quality standards, coverage checks, and priority preservation across all these batch processing use cases.

Automated task plan validation focuses on structural quality gates, dependency checks, and priority preservation through a six-phase framework. It does not generate tasks itself, but strictly validates existing batches of task specifications before creation.