Plan Jira Ticket

Ticket ID: $ARGUMENTS

Ticket details: acli jira workitem view $ARGUMENTS

Workflow

1. Parse ticket — Extract summary, description, acceptance criteria, linked issues, and attachments from the ticket details above.
2. Create or switch to branch — Follow Branch Naming. Check for an existing branch matching this ticket before creating a new one.
3. Transition ticket — Run acli jira workitem update $ARGUMENTS --status "In Progress".
4. Enter plan mode — Call EnterPlanMode.
5. Create implementation plan — Write a plan covering:

- Ticket ID and summary as the plan title - Acceptance criteria from the ticket (verbatim when available) - Technical approach with specific files to create or modify - Testing strategy - Out-of-scope items (what NOT to change)

Branch Naming

Format: {TICKET-ID}-{slugified-summary}

Result: PROJ-123-add-user-login-page

Branch Check

1. List local branches: git branch --list '{TICKET-ID}'
2. List remote branches: git branch -r --list '{TICKET-ID}'
3. Match found → git checkout {branch}. Pull latest if remote tracking branch exists.
4. No match → git checkout -b {new-branch-name}.

Plan Requirements

Include:

• Ticket ID and summary as the plan title
• Acceptance criteria extracted from the ticket (verbatim when present)
• Files to create or modify with rationale
• Testing approach
• Dependencies or blockers from the ticket

Exclude:

• Work outside the ticket scope
• Speculative features not in the ticket
• Refactoring unrelated to ticket objectives

Error Handling