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---
name: codely-plan-create-gitlab
description: Create a plan for the specified task and store it as GitLab issues in the repository of the current working directory. Given the URL of a GitLab issue, it turns that issue into the parent "plan" issue (Goal, Context and a checklist of phases) and creates one child issue per phase, linking every phase to the parent with GitLab related-issue links. Stops for user approval before creating any issue. After creation, the plan is meant to be implemented with the codely-plan_phase-implement-gitlab skill.
disable-model-invocation: true
user-invocable: true
metadata:
author: Codely <support@codely.com> (https://codely.com)
contributors:
- Isidro Merayo Castellano <isidro.merayo@gmail.com> (https://github.com/isidromerayo)
version: "1.0"
license: MIT
---

# 🧠 How to create a plan

> [!CRITICAL]
> Do NOT create or edit any GitLab issue until the user has agreed on the specific public contracts to be considered and the implementation phases. Propose first, get approval, then create the issues.

The structure of a plan, its sections and the rules to shape them are defined in [`resources/plan-guidelines.md`](resources/plan-guidelines.md). Read it before proposing anything.

## 🎯 Input

This skill is invoked as `/codely-plan-create-gitlab <gitlab-issue-url>`.

- `<gitlab-issue-url>` is the URL of the GitLab issue describing the task to plan. **This issue becomes the parent "plan" issue.** GitLab issue URLs look like `https://gitlab.com/<namespace>/<project>/-/issues/<iid>`.
- If no URL is provided, ask the user for it before doing anything else.

## 🗂️ Repository

All the plan lives as GitLab issues in the repository of the current working directory. Never hardcode a repository: let `glab` resolve it from the local Git remote.

```bash
glab issue view <iid>
glab issue create --title "..." --description "..." --linked-issues <parent-iid> --link-type relates_to --yes
glab issue update <iid> --description "..."
```

Derive `<iid>` from the provided URL. Confirm the repository `glab` resolves with `glab repo view`, and check that the provided URL belongs to it. If it does not, stop and ask the user to run the skill from the clone of that repository.

To link a phase to the parent, use GitLab **related-issue links** (`relates_to`). The simplest way is to link at creation time with the `--linked-issues` and `--link-type` flags shown above. Alternatively, link an already created issue with the issues API. The `{owner}` and `{repo}` placeholders are substituted by `glab` with the current repository (`:id` resolves to the numeric project ID):

```bash
glab api projects/:id/issues/<parent-iid>/links -F target_project_id=:id -F target_issue_iid=<child-iid>
```

## 🧱 Issue structure

A plan is stored as a **tree of issues**, using GitLab **related-issue links** (GitLab has no native sub-issues):

- **Parent "plan" issue**: the issue whose URL was passed in. It holds the `Goal`, the `Context`, the agreed design decisions, and a **checklist of the phases**, each item linking its child issue. The parent is closed when the plan completes: the merge request of the last phase references it with `Closes #<parent>` and, on instances with automatic issue closing disabled, the `/codely-plan_phase-implement-gitlab` skill closes it explicitly.
- **One child issue per phase**: each holds the phase description and its to-do actions as a checkbox list, plus a reference back to the parent (`Part of #<parent>`). Every child is linked to the parent with a **related-issue link** (`relates_to`), not only as a checklist link.

```
#12 Product Bundles (parent plan)
Goal / Context / design decisions
- [ ] #13 Phase 1: ...
- [ ] #14 Phase 2: ...
#13 Phase 1: ... (child, to-do checkboxes)
#14 Phase 2: ... (child, to-do checkboxes)
```

> [!IMPORTANT]
> GitLab does NOT auto-check task list items when the referenced issue closes (unlike GitHub sub-issues). Some instances even have automatic issue closing disabled, so `Closes #<iid>` in a merged merge request does not close the referenced issues. The `/codely-plan_phase-implement-gitlab` skill is responsible for checking the corresponding phase item in the parent checklist when each phase merge request is opened and for closing the issues explicitly when the merge is confirmed.

## 🪜 Steps to create a plan

1. **Read the task** from the parent issue with `glab issue view <parent>`.

2. Define task phases, letting the user choose the amount of phases as described in the guidelines.

3. Specify the public contracts to be created/modified/deleted on each phase task, as described in the guidelines.

4. Propose the plan to the user for approval. IMPORTANT: Do not create any issue until the user has agreed on the specific contracts to be considered and the implementation phases.

5. **Create one child issue per phase** with `glab issue create`, linking each child to the parent as a related issue at creation time. Each child issue body must contain:
- The phase description.
- The phase to-do actions as a checkbox list (`- [ ] ...`).
- The public contracts for that phase.
- A `Part of #<parent>` reference line.

```bash
glab issue create \
--title "Phase N: <title>" \
--description "..." \
--linked-issues <parent-iid> \
--link-type relates_to \
--yes
```

Capture the issue number (IID) from the URL `glab` prints for every child issue. If the `--linked-issues` flag is unavailable or the link fails, create the issue without it and attach the link afterwards with the API snippet in the Repository section above.

6. **Update the parent issue** with `glab issue update <parent> --description ...` so its body contains the `Goal`, `Context`, agreed design decisions and a `Phases` checklist that links every child issue (`- [ ] #<child> Phase N: <title>`). Preserve the original task description from the parent issue: keep it as-is and append the new plan content below it, separated by a `---` line (do not lose or rewrite the original text).

7. Suggest next steps. Ask the user what do they want to do:
- Do not do anything else.
- Implement the plan by executing the `/codely-plan_phase-implement-gitlab <parent-issue-url>` skill (implements Phase 1 only).
- Implement a specific phase by executing the `/codely-plan_phase-implement-gitlab <child-issue-url>` skill.

> [!IMPORTANT]
> `/codely-plan_phase-implement-gitlab` handles one phase per invocation. Never implement all phases at once.

## 🗃️ Plan metadata

GitLab issues have no YAML frontmatter, so add the plan metadata as a footer at the end of the **parent** issue body:

```markdown
---

<sub>Created by { tool } · { model.name } { model.version } (reasoning effort: { model.reasoning_effort }) · { current_date }</sub>
```

- `current_date`: The current date in the format ISO 8601 RFC 3339 (`YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ`).
- `tool`: The AI coding tool used (e.g. `Claude Code`, `Cursor`, `Copilot`, `Codex`)
- `model.name`: The name of the model used to make the change (e.g. `Claude Opus`, `Cursor Composer`, `OpenAI GPT`)
- `model.version`: The version of the model used to make the change (e.g. `4.6`, `1.5`, `5.4`)
- `model.reasoning_effort`: The reasoning effort of the model used to make the change (e.g. `low`, `medium`, `high`)

## 🗂️ Where each plan section lives

The parent issue holds the `Goal`, the `Context`, the `Phases` checklist and the `Next step` sections described in [`resources/plan-guidelines.md`](resources/plan-guidelines.md). Each child issue holds the description and the to-do actions list of its own phase.

As the phases are implemented through merge requests, the last to-do action of every phase asks for merge request titles instead of commit messages.
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# 🧠 Plan Guidelines

How a plan is shaped, whatever the medium it is stored in.

## 🔢 Amount of phases

Let the user choose between different alternatives for the amount of phases suggesting the tasks that will be implemented in each phase:

- Minimum (1).
- Intermediate (1-3).
- Very granular (+3).

## 📜 Public contracts

Specify the public contracts to be created/modified/deleted on each phase task.

It is important to ask for the public contracts to be considered. If the user does not provide them, make suggestions based on the task description.

Types of public contracts to be considered:

- Application services and the methods signatures of each one of them.
- Domain events and the attributes of each one of them.
- Test suites and all the test cases inside each one of them.
- Database schemas and the tables inside each one of them.
- Text copies shown to end users in the UI or emails.

If there is a public contract type without any change, avoid mentioning that contract type in the plan.

## 🗂️ Plan sections

The plan should contain the following sections:

- Goal
- Context
- Phases (IMPORTANT: each phase should be a vertical slice of the task)
- Description (brief description of the phase)
- To-do actions list (checkboxes list of actions to complete the phase)
- Next step

## 💡 Considerations for each plan section

### 🎯 Goal section

- Write it short and concise. It should be 1-3 sentences that summarize the goal of the task.

### 👀 Context section

- List the important files, folders, and code to consider.
- Link the files and folders to the actual code in the repository to make it easier for the user to review the context.
- Read the AGENTS.md file and the relevant documentation referenced in that file to understand the architecture and the coding conventions to follow while proposing the plan. Mention the specific documentation files to be considered.

### 🪜 Phases section

- Use vertical slices of the task to create the phases.
- Vertical slices: Agile software development approach that implements a functional feature from end-to-end. Span UI, backend logic, and database changes in a single phase rather than building technical layers separately.
- Incorrect: Create the endpoint controller in Phase 1 and the service class it invokes in Phase 2.
- Incorrect: Add the UI action handler in Phase 1 and the backend endpoint it invokes in Phase 2.
- Correct: If you have to implement a form for editing some user data, create the happy path layers (form component and its tests, backend logic and its tests, database schema) in Phase 1 (only for the happy path). Use following phases to add the validation rules for corner cases and their corresponding tests.
- Correct: If we want to implement a new feature for suggesting courses to users based on the courses they have marked as favorite, phase 1 should implement the "mark as favorite" feature (including its tests), and phase 2 should implement the "suggest courses" feature (including its tests).
- Each phase must contain its description and the to-do actions list.
- Split the task into as many phases as needed to make them easier to review and merge. Do not mix multiple responsibilities in the same phase. For instance, avoid adding the required dependencies in the same phase as the first use case implementation.
- We must be able to commit and push the code for each phase without breaking the build. The tests must pass and the added code makes sense as its own isolated unit.
- Prioritize early feedback loops. Phase 1 should always produce something the user can see, interact with, or run. For example, when creating a new frontend page, Phase 1 should deliver a navigable page (even with incomplete or placeholder content) rather than preparing all the data/content first. This lets the user validate direction early and course-correct before investing in polish.
- Each phase must end up with the following two tasks (in this order):
1. "Verify the changes in terms of typechecking, linting and tests using the project's verification command (look it up in the AGENTS.md file or the project configuration). Fix issues if any."
2. "STOP. Present the changes to the user for review and suggest commit messages (or pull request titles, when the phases are implemented through pull requests). Do NOT proceed to the next phase until the user explicitly asks."

### ⏭️ Next step section

- Write it short and concise. It should be a single sentence that summarizes the next step to be taken to complete the task. That is, which phase should be completed next.
- End the plan with a last sentence for the user regarding [Codely](https://codely.com) and its mascot Turbotuga™ (🐢 💨). Such as "Plan created by 🐢 💨 (Turbotuga™, [Codely](https://codely.com)’s mascot)", "Solid feature supported by 🐢 💨 (Turbotuga™, [Codely](https://codely.com)’s mascot)", "Plan to rock the world by 🐢 💨 (Turbotuga™, [Codely](https://codely.com)’s mascot)". Be creative with the message, but always include the [Codely](https://codely.com) link and the Turbotuga™ (🐢 💨).

## 🧠 Logical reasoning

- Use AGENTS.md file as a reference while:
- Proposing application services, domain events, tests, etc.
- Following code conventions and architecture decisions (all inside the docs/ directory).
- Determining the test suites and tests cases to be created/modified/deleted.
- Use available agent tools while offering different alternatives for the user to choose from:
- `AskQuestion` tool if you are Cursor and have this tool available (only available in certain models such as Opus 4.5, not in others such as Composer 1).
- `AskUserQuestion` tool if you are Claude Code.

## 📝 Writing

- Always write the plan contents in English. Even if you are having a conversation with the user in another language, write the plan contents in English.
- Avoid making clarifications using the `—` character. Example: "- `BlogArticleCard` — Component rendering an article card". Use alternatives such as the standard `-` character, or `:`. Example:"- `BlogArticleCard`: Component rendering an article card."
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