kata-new-milestone

Operating Brief

When this skill is invoked, help the user define the next scoped delivery milestone for an existing Kata project.

Start by reading project context and recent completed milestone artifacts, then ask what outcome the next milestone should deliver. Gather enough detail to define the milestone goal, requirements, roadmap, constraints, open questions, and any carry-forward candidates.

Create exactly one milestone with milestone.create, then write milestone-scoped requirements and roadmap artifacts with artifact.write. Shape the roadmap as demo-able vertical slices with minimized dependencies and explicit parallelization opportunities. End by routing the user to kata-plan-phase.

Success Criteria

• Exactly one active milestone is created for the selected delivery goal.
• Carry-forward candidates from completed milestones are surfaced before the new milestone scope is confirmed.
• Milestone requirements are persisted as a milestone-scoped requirements artifact.
• The delivery roadmap is persisted as a milestone-scoped roadmap artifact.
• Roadmap slices have demo outcomes, independent test surfaces, dependency metadata, and implementation waves.
• Horizontal enabling work is explicitly justified and tied to the later demo-able slice it unlocks.
• The user knows the next step is kata-plan-phase.

Do Not

• Do not initialize a new project here; route missing project context to kata-new-project.
• Do not create slices or tasks.
• Do not default to horizontal phase slices when a demo-able vertical slice can deliver user or operator value.
• Do not create multiple milestones unless the user explicitly asks.
• Do not route to standalone discussion skills.

Process

1. Read references/workflow.md before taking action. Execute that workflow end-to-end.
2. Preserve every workflow gate: required checks, user confirmations, durable writes, status updates, and next-step routing.
3. Before any backend IO, read references/runtime-contract.md and use only the operations listed there.
4. When the workflow tells you to create or read an artifact, use references/artifact-contract.md and the named template files.
5. If setup or backend readiness is uncertain, read references/setup.md before proceeding.
6. Read optional references only when the workflow calls for them or the current step needs them.

Resource Loading

Must read:

• Workflow: references/workflow.md
• Runtime IO contract: references/runtime-contract.md

Read when needed:

• Setup and health checks: references/setup.md
• Alignment depth: references/alignment.md
• CLI command patterns: references/cli-runtime.md
• Artifact conventions: references/artifact-contract.md
• CLI helper: scripts/kata-call.mjs
• Artifact input helper: scripts/kata-artifact-input.mjs

Additional references:

• questioning: references/questioning.md
• ui-brand: references/ui-brand.md

Templates:

• project: templates/project.md
• requirements: templates/requirements.md
• roadmap: templates/roadmap.md
• state: templates/state.md

Execution Rules

1. If setup or backend state is uncertain, start with references/setup.md.
2. Choose alignment depth using references/alignment.md inside this workflow.
3. Follow references/workflow.md as the behavioral source for this skill.
4. Use only operations listed in references/runtime-contract.md for backend IO.
5. Keep backend specifics in @kata-sh/cli adapters, never in skill logic.