speckit-tracker-sync

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The first word is the event: start, implement, pr, qa, review (an alias of qa), blocked, unblock, finish, file or check, or plan (§6). blocked is followed by the reason, pr by the PR number. As a spec-kit hook there is no argument: after_specify is start, before_implement is implement.

These writes are a standing instruction (AGENTS.md): never ask before them, even under /speckit-auto.

1. Run the script (one call per event)

Run it from the feature's checkout; it finds the issue by the ST id its title starts with (1036-… → ST-1036, or --story ST-<n>), and the PR by the branch, or by --pr <n>.

--story naming a story other than the feature's own (not ST-<feature number>, and no start or pr line for it in this feature's log), such as a dependent being unblocked, writes only that story: never this worktree's run-state prior, and never this branch's PR unless --pr names one.

node .claude/scripts/tracker-sync.mjs start
node .claude/scripts/tracker-sync.mjs pr <n>
node .claude/scripts/tracker-sync.mjs implement
node .claude/scripts/tracker-sync.mjs qa
node .claude/scripts/tracker-sync.mjs blocked "<reason and what would unblock it>"
node .claude/scripts/tracker-sync.mjs unblock
node .claude/scripts/tracker-sync.mjs finish --body-file <comment.md>   # or --no-comment (§4)
node .claude/scripts/tracker-sync.mjs file --type <story|task|bug|tech debt|decision> --title "ST-<n> …" --body-file <f> [--epic EP-<n>] [--priority <p>]
node .claude/scripts/tracker-sync.mjs check   # read-only: does the token reach Project #11
node .claude/scripts/tracker-sync.mjs next [--epic EP-<n>]   # read-only: To do issues with no open blocker, by priority then number

next is how the next task is picked: one REST issue search (is:open -label:needs-confirmation, plus label:EP-<n> when an epic is named) and one GraphQL read per 100 issues of their Status, Priority and open blockers, keeping To do issues with none open, by Priority (Urgent first) then number; never gh project item-list, which reads the whole Project from the GraphQL quota. It needs no active feature and writes nothing. A GraphQL call answered with a rate limit or "submitted too quickly" waits 60 s, doubling, and is tried at most 5 times (tracker/github.mjs).

Each call prints one JSON line and appends - <date> · <event> · <item> · <text> lines to specs/<feature>/tracker-sync.md, the feature's one tracker log.

• Token. GH_PROJECT_TOKEN, then GH_TOKEN, then gh auth token -u george-hutanu; never another account or config dir. Every gh call it makes carries GH_TOKEN: the session's, else filled from gh auth token -u george-hutanu; with neither, the call is refused (a write logged PENDING), never left to gh's active account. A token without the project scope prints one line with the fix, gh auth refresh -h github.com -u george-hutanu -s project,read:project, and logs the event PENDING.
• A GitHub error is not a failure: the script logs [TRACKER-SYNC PENDING: <step> <item> — <error>] retry: […], exits 0, and its next run retries that line first, rewriting it RETRIED once it succeeds (or FAILED). Writes are paced at one a second.
• An issue missing for the story prints one skipped result, writes nothing and exits 0; the script never creates a story's issue on its own (file does, on request).
• A failed PR write (the stage labels, the Blocked: comment) is logged PENDING like any other GitHub error, never as done, and the event's other writes still go through.
• file reuses an open issue with exactly the same title instead of filing a second (a run that failed after its POST left one).

2. What each event does

The ladder is tracker/status.mjs's: To do → Planning → Implementing → QA → Done, never backwards; only unblock leaves Blocked, returning to the status recorded in run-state (for another story's --story: the <!-- tracker-sync prior: … --> marker its newest Blocked comment carries, else the newest blocked line for it in any specs/*/tracker-sync.md, else To do). Only the Project's Status, dates and PR fields, the issue's state, labels and comments are written, never its title or text.

Event	Issue Status	Also
start	→ Planning, Started set	epic To do → Implementing
implement	→ Implementing
qa / review	→ QA, QA from set
blocked <reason>	→ Blocked	the reason as an issue comment and a PR comment, once
unblock	→ the status before Blocked
finish	→ Done, Merged at set, issue closed as completed	epic Done and closed when all its open work is; finish comment (§4)

2a. PR labels

Exactly one stage label on an open PR, set by every event: Planning → planning, Implementing → in development, QA → QA; a Blocked story keeps the stage it left plus blocked (from To do, or with no recorded status it left, blocked alone); a merged PR carries none. The decision's labels adds the one and removes the others, so a late or repeated event converges.

The other labels are added when the PR opens and stay to the merge:

Label	Added when
type, one of feature, bug, tech debt, performance, documentation, tests, tooling	from the title's type: feat, fix, refactor, perf, docs, test, ci/build/chore
breaking	the title carries !
scope: <scope>	from the title's scope (gh label create "scope: <scope>" --force first)
EP-<n>	pr, from the story's epic
ui	the diff touches apps/web or libs/ui-cockpit
dependencies	the diff changes a package.json's dependencies

At start a branch with no PR opens its draft labelled planning (speckit-git-commit), then pr <n>. A PR with no story asks tracker/status.mjs with --current at its work's status and applies only the labels: gh pr edit <n> <labels>.

3. pr

• pr <n> writes the PR's URL to the issue's PR field (a second PR of the same story keeps the first and comments Follow-up PR: <url> once), replaces the PR body's story placeholder with <issue url> (ST-n), fills the Closes george-hutanu/motor-fix-specs#<n> line (or appends it), and adds the epic label EP-<n>. The line - <date> · pr · ST-<n> · PR #<n> <url> is what stop:pr-lifecycle reads.
• Claim label. pr copies the issue's claim: chief-N label to the PR; pr and check log a PR whose claim differs, as claim mismatch: issue chief-1, PR chief-2.
• Dependencies. start, pr, finish and file sync the issue's native blocked-by links with its body's Depends on: line, which names #n, ST-n or issue URLs, or none: a missing link to an open target is added, a link to a closed target is dropped, and a circular one is refused. Each sync writes one deps line to tracker-sync.md.

4. Finish comment (hard rule)

On every finish, read the feature's auto-run.md, spec.md Clarifications and Assumptions, and the PR's Agent review, and collect:

• Deviations from the story's Build brief or acceptance criteria.
• Decisions taken on the owner's behalf: every (autonomous default).
• Open questions left for the owner.
• Fixed after QA (the heading ## Fixed after QA): after a lap that passed with medium or low findings, one line per finding with its severity and the fix commit's sha (the tail writes it; lifecycle.mjs merge stops before the merge while it names fewer findings than the lap reported).

When one exists, write one bullet per item under those headings, each with its source file, plus the PR link, to the git-ignored specs/<feature>/finish-comment.md and pass its absolute path as --body-file; the script posts it on the issue once. When none exists, pass --no-comment: no comment is posted. Logged as - <date> · comment · ST-<n> · posted (<count> items) or · nothing to record.

5. Record it

tracker-sync.md lives in the private specs repository, never on the motor-fix branch: node .claude/scripts/specs-repo.mjs commit "chore(specs): ST-<n> <event>" -- <feature>/tracker-sync.md commits and pushes it (lifecycle.mjs does this at ready and at the merge). After the merge, the finish and comment lines also go as one Finish log comment on the merged PR (gh pr comment <n>).

6. Build plan

plan EP-<n> writes a new epic's build plan as Markdown to .motor-fix-specs/docs/reference/build-plans/ep-<n>-<slug>.md, shaped like ep-1-foundations.md: the eight front-matter keys (id: EP-<n>, title, kind: reference, a one-sentence summary, status: current, updated, related, supersedes), relative links only, at most 400 lines; its waves, lanes and blocked-by edges are the epic's sub-issues and their "blocked by" links. In the clone it runs node scripts/docs-lint.mjs --write (which regenerates llms.txt), then a plain node scripts/docs-lint.mjs until it is silent, and commits and pushes both in one commit: node .claude/scripts/specs-repo.mjs commit "docs: <EP-n> build plan" -- docs/reference/build-plans/ep-<n>-<slug>.md llms.txt.

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One line: Tracker: ST-79 Planning · EP-1 To do → Implementing.