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feat(work-items): add an integrate-at-least-daily cadence to decompose's window bar #8328

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Refs #8326 · Source: PLAN Phase 7, topic malleable-design-defaults

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  • none: on the frontier now

Outcome

/work-items:decompose's window-bar row keeps the one-fresh-context-window bar and adds "integrate at least daily" as a practice-guidance cadence, not an estimate. It states no hours unit and no one-day cap. Sources: DORA trunk-based development and small batches, and Fowler's Continuous Integration ("at least daily" is the merge floor).

Why HITL: the wording must be agreed with the parallel Problem First effort's Work size and time-units rule before merge (plan DA-E). A human confirms that agreement.

Key interfaces

From the plan's ## Design › Module layout:

work-items skills/decompose | one-context-window bar plus integrate at least daily | proactive

Done when

  • grep -c "at least daily" on the decompose SKILL.md returns ≥ 1, and grep -ciE "[0-9]+ hours" on it returns 0.
  • Eval case (a case.yaml dir under the work-items plugin's evals/): a slice sized to the window bar is also checked for daily integration, with no hours estimate.
  • The wording is confirmed against the Problem First effort's time-units rule.
  • After the commit, bash scripts/check-changed-skills.sh origin/main exits 0.
  • A changelog fragment for the work-items plugin.

Out of scope

  • Any hours estimate or one-day cap.
  • Other decompose checks.

Activity

  1. added
    needs-humanHuman-in-the-loop required; autonomous sessions must not resolve items carrying this.
    on Oct 19, 2026
  2. self-assigned this
    on Oct 19, 2026
  3. kyle-sexton commented on Oct 19, 2026

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  4. kyle-sexton commented on Oct 19, 2026

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    The parallel Problem First effort agreed this wording on 2026-10-18: its time-units rule treats a practice cadence such as "integrate at least daily" as not an estimate, so a cadence with no hours unit and no one-day cap does not conflict (plugins/planning/context/problem-framing.md "Time units", branch feat/problem-first-framing). The human gate on this item is cleared.

  5. added
    agent-readyFully specified and briefed; eligible for autonomous pickup from the frontier.
    and removed
    needs-humanHuman-in-the-loop required; autonomous sessions must not resolve items carrying this.
    on Oct 19, 2026
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