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fix(ce-work): reject plan re-scoping into human-time phases#600

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@tmchow tmchow commented Apr 18, 2026

/ce-work no longer invents human-time estimates or proposes multi-day "session scope" breakdowns when it sees a plan with several implementation units. The skill already has the right tool for plan size (subagent dispatch in Phase 1 Step 4) and the right tool for plans that are genuinely too large (Phase 0's Large routing back to /ce-brainstorm or /ce-plan); it was reaching past both to borrow a human IC's framing that doesn't apply to agent execution.

Two changes, synced between ce-work and ce-work-beta:

  • Phase 1 Step 1 — the vague Get user approval to proceed bullet now only asks for approval when clarifying questions were needed. Plan scope is the plan's authority, not something to renegotiate at the start of execution.
  • Common Pitfalls — explicit anti-pattern added: don't estimate human-hours per unit, don't propose phased sessions, don't ask the user to pick a subset of units. Points at the existing levers (subagent dispatch, Phase 0 Large routing) that already solve the real concern.

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The skill had no explicit guardrail against the agent estimating human-hours
per implementation unit and proposing multi-day session breakdowns. Tightens
Phase 1 Step 1 so "approval" only applies when clarifications were needed,
and adds a Common Pitfall that points at subagent dispatch (Phase 1 Step 4)
as the correct lever for large plans. Synced to ce-work-beta.
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Comment thread plugins/compound-engineering/skills/ce-work/SKILL.md Outdated
- Narrow the oversized-plan escape hatch reference: Phase 0's Large routing
  only fires for bare-prompt input, since plan-file input explicitly skips
  Phase 0. Make the rule explicit for plan-file input (escalate to /ce-plan)
  and preserve the bare-prompt routing reference for that path.
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