# sprint-plan

Builds a sprint plan from the current milestone, completed work and available capacity. Handy once the backlog exists and laying it out by hand gets tedious.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 443 installs · ★ 27473
- Author: Donchitos
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/sprint-plan/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-19
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/donchitos-sprint-plan

## What it does

The skill runs in three modes: `new` writes a plan from scratch, `update` rebuilds an existing one, `status` reports where things stand. The new sprint number comes from the `production/sprints/` listing — highest `sprint-NNN.md` plus one. Stories that did not reach `Complete` in the previous sprint land in a Carryover table with a reason and a new estimate, and never reappear as fresh Must Have work.

Planning draws on stories marked `Ready` under `production/epics/**/story-*.md`. Find none and the skill stops, telling you to run `/create-stories` first. It will not invent tasks to fill the gap, because a plan pointing at stories that do not exist cannot be implemented. How many stories a sprint takes is set by `story_granularity`: 2–4 at `coarse`, 6–10 at `balanced`, 15–25 at `fine`. A smaller backlog gets planned whole rather than padded.

Before it starts, the skill resolves config through `hooks/yaml-helper.sh` and reads the milestone from `production/milestones/` if one is there. Milestones are authored by hand from a template, and most projects simply do not have one — that is the normal state, and planning continues against the backlog alone. Review depth comes from your settings, and `--review full|lean|solo` overrides it for a single run. Writing a review mode into `project.yaml` or `production/review-mode.txt` is something the skill explicitly tells you not to do: either write freezes director-review depth for good.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill sprint-plan -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/sprint-plan/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/sprint-plan/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill sprint-plan -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/sprint-plan/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill sprint-plan -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/sprint-plan/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios sprint-plan
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/sprint-plan/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill sprint-plan -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --path .claude/skills/sprint-plan
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/sprint-plan/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill sprint-plan -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/sprint-plan/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- lay out ready stories across a sprint with estimates and dependencies
- carry unfinished work from the last sprint into its own table
- work out capacity with a buffer for unplanned tasks
- check whether the backlog matches the chosen story granularity
- produce a sprint plan without inventing work outside the backlog

## Example prompts
- /sprint-plan new
- /sprint-plan update --review lean
- /sprint-plan status

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: sprint-plan
description: "New or updated sprint plan from the current milestone, completed work, and available capacity."
argument-hint: "[new|update|status] [--review full|lean|solo]"
user-invocable: true
allowed-tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Edit, Agent, AskUserQuestion, Bash(bash "*/.claude/skills/sprint-plan/../../hooks/yaml-helper.sh" resolve_config *), Bash(ls production/sprints/*)
model: sonnet
---

!`bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../hooks/yaml-helper.sh" resolve_config --keys review_mode,automation,story_granularity,workflow`

Resolved above — use as-is; `--review` overrides `review_mode`. No block →
defaults in `.claude/docs/config-resolution.md`.

# Sprint Plan


## Existing Sprints

!`ls production/sprints/ 2>/dev/null || echo "(no production/sprints/ directory yet)"`

Resolved before this skill runs — use it to identify the previous sprint in
Phase 1 rather than re-globbing.

---

## Phase 0: Parse Arguments

Extract the mode argument (`new`, `update`, or `status`).

See `.claude/docs/director-gates.md` for the full check pattern. Individual gate definitions live in `.claude/docs/director-gates/[gate-id].md` — the spawned agent reads its own gate file; do not read it in the parent session.


Every `AskUserQuestion` call follows `.claude/docs/automation-modes.md`
(collaborative asks always · guided major-only · autonomous logs and proceeds;
`automation_always_ask` categories always prompt).

**`story_granularity`** — it sets how
many stories to allocate per sprint, scaled by velocity: **2–4** at `coarse` (the default, via `rigor: minimal`),
**6–10** at `balanced` (`rigor: standard`), **15–25** at `fine`. A Ready backlog
smaller than the range is planned whole — never padded with invented stories.

**Review mode check** (before gates run):
- Use the review mode from the resolved block above (`--review` overrides it
  for this run) — do not re-resolve it, and do not ask for it. With nothing
  configured it follows `modes.rigor`: `solo` at `minimal`, `lean` at `standard`.
- **Never write a review mode** — not to `project.yaml`, not to
  `production/review-mode.txt`. `modes.review_mode` is one of the knobs
  `modes.rigor` fronts: pinning it in `project.yaml` shadows the rigor
```
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