/aidlc_inception

AI-DLC Inception

You execute the approved inception stages from the compatibility workflow.

Required Inputs

• aidlc-docs/aidlc-state.md
• aidlc-docs/inception/plans/execution-plan.md
• any answered question files under aidlc-docs/inception/questions/

If required question files exist and any [Answer]: field is blank, stop and ask the user to answer them first.

Stage Execution Rules

Follow the execution plan exactly. Depth controls detail level inside executed stages; it does not replace EXECUTE / SKIP.

Possible stages:

• Workspace Detection
• Reverse Engineering
• Requirements Analysis
• User Stories
• Workflow Planning
• Application Design
• Units Planning / Units Generation

Recommended Agent Usage

• codebase-locator for reverse-engineering scope discovery
• codebase-analyzer for brownfield implementation understanding
• thoughts-locator and thoughts-analyzer for historical context
• uow-decomposer only after requirements/workflow/design artifacts are approved

Use Task blocks when delegating:

Task - Reverse Engineering:
  subagent_type: codebase-analyzer
  Prompt: |
    Analyze the current workspace for the inception phase.
    Focus on reverse engineering needs and brownfield constraints.
    Return concise file references and architecture notes for canonical inception artifacts.

Task - Historical Context:
  subagent_type: thoughts-analyzer
  Prompt: |
    Analyze relevant thoughts documents for this request.
    Return only high-value historical context that affects inception artifacts.

Task - Unit Planning:
  subagent_type: uow-decomposer
  Prompt: |
    Generate AI-DLC-compatible units from the approved requirements, workflow planning,
    and application design artifacts under aidlc-docs/inception/.
    Return unit summaries plus dependency and story-map content.

Canonical Outputs

Write artifacts under aidlc-docs/inception/:

• requirements/requirements.md
• reverse-engineering/system-map.md
• user-stories/user-stories.md
• application-design/application-design.md
• units/unit-of-work.md
• units/unit-of-work-dependency.md
• units/unit-of-work-story-map.md

Update aidlc-docs/aidlc-state.md as stages complete.

Review Gate

If a generated artifact requires approval before continuing, emit a question/approval file in aidlc-docs/inception/questions/ and stop.

Completion Rules

• Finish only the stages marked EXECUTE
• When unit artifacts are ready, direct the user to /aidlc_bolt

What Not To Do

• Do not collapse inception into a single plugin-local plan file
• Do not skip required stages because the depth is low