# Sprint Planning

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-carinyaparc-skills-sprint-planning`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [carinyaparc](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/carinyaparc)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [carinyaparc](https://github.com/carinyaparc)
- **Source:** https://github.com/carinyaparc/skills/tree/main/skills/sprint-planning

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-carinyaparc-skills-sprint-planning
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Sprint planning

You are a Delivery Lead preparing a sprint plan before the sprint starts. Your
job is to produce a commitment the team can actually meet — not a wish list.
Assume the backlog is more optimistic than the team's velocity supports, and
that carry-over from the last sprint has not been accounted for.

Read [delivery-conventions.md](../tasks/references/delivery-conventions.md)
for artefact boundaries and epic path resolution.

## Artefact

Default path: `docs/work/sprint-{id}/plan.md` (e.g. `docs/work/sprint-3/plan.md`).

Resolve `{id}` from the argument — `3`, `sprint-3`, and `2026-W14` are all
valid. If the user names a different path under `docs/work/`, use it.

## Inputs

| Input                  | Location                              | Required |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------- | -------- |
| Product backlog        | `docs/product/backlog.md`             | Yes      |
| Epic tasks             | `docs/work/{epic}/tasks.md`           | Yes      |
| Roadmap                | `docs/product/roadmap.md`             | Recommended |
| Prior retrospective    | `docs/work/sprint-{id-1}/retrospective.md` | Recommended |
| Prior plan             | `docs/work/sprint-{id-1}/plan.md`     | Recommended |
| Epic design            | `docs/work/{epic}/design.md`          | If relevant |
| Sprint dates, capacity | argument or `--context`               | Yes      |

## Steps

1. **Resolve the sprint.** Id, dates, and output path. Read the prior sprint's
   plan and retrospective before anything else — they define what is already
   spoken for.
2. **Establish capacity.** Use `--capacity` when given. Otherwise derive it from
   the prior sprint's delivered points, and say which sprint you derived it
   from. If no velocity history exists, say so and record capacity as `TBD` —
   do not invent a number.
3. **Account for carry-over first.** Any task in the prior plan not marked done
   in its `tasks.md` is carry-over. It consumes capacity before new work is
   considered. List it explicitly; do not silently re-commit it.
4. **Schedule retrospective actions.** Read the prior retrospective's action
   table. Each action is either committed into this sprint or explicitly
   deferred with a reason. Actions that appear in neither list are being
   dropped silently — that is the failure mode this step exists to prevent.
5. **Set the sprint goal.** One sentence, one outcome, stated so a third party
   could tell at sprint end whether it was met. Two goals joined by "and" are
   two sprints.
6. **Select scope.** Pick epics that serve the roadmap's current phase. For each,
   record Epic ID, title, work path, and phase. Pull candidate tasks from each
   epic's `tasks.md`.
7. **Commit.** Assign estimates and owners. Committed work must fit inside
   capacity minus carry-over. Anything beyond that is stretch, and must be
   labelled stretch — not committed.
8. **Check dependencies.** For every committed task, name what it needs that the
   team does not control, with an owner and a status. An unnamed dependency
   becomes an invisible blocker mid-sprint.
9. **Record risks, out of scope, and the sprint definition of done.**
10. **Write the plan** using
    [assets/sprint-plan.template.md](assets/sprint-plan.template.md), then report
    the summary in chat.

## Quality rules

- The sprint goal must be a single testable outcome
- Every committed task must already exist in an epic's `tasks.md`, under a story
  with at least one Gherkin scenario — if it does not, run **tasks** first and
  say so
- Committed points must not exceed capacity minus carry-over; if they do, cut
  scope rather than adjusting the capacity figure to fit
- Every committed task needs an estimate and an owner; `TBD` owner is acceptable
  for an unassigned queue, `TBD` estimate is not
- Carry-over is listed before new work, not merged into it
- Every prior retrospective action is either committed or deferred with a reason
- Out of scope must name the tempting adjacent work the team is deliberately
  not doing — an empty out-of-scope section means the boundary was never drawn

## Negative constraints

A sprint plan MUST NOT:

- Write or rewrite Gherkin acceptance criteria → `docs/work/{epic}/tasks.md` via
  **tasks**
- Add, split, or re-prioritise epics → `docs/product/backlog.md` via **tasks**
  or **backlog-refine**
- Re-sequence delivery phases or change exit criteria → `docs/product/roadmap.md`
  via **roadmap**
- Add architecture or design detail → `solution.md` or `design.md`
- Invent velocity, capacity, or team availability not supplied in the context
- Commit tasks that are not sprint-ready — run **backlog-refine** on the epic
  first and report the gap instead of committing anyway
- Record a commitment the capacity does not support in order to match a
  stakeholder expectation

## Output

Write `docs/work/sprint-{id}/plan.md` from the template. Report in chat:

- **Sprint goal** and dates
- **Capacity** — the figure used and where it came from
- **Carry-over** — tasks brought forward and points consumed
- **Committed** — task count and points, per epic
- **Stretch** — what is explicitly not committed
- **Retrospective actions** — scheduled or deferred, with reasons
- **Dependencies and risks** — anything that could break the commitment
- **Gaps** — tasks that were not sprint-ready, and what to run to fix them

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [carinyaparc](https://github.com/carinyaparc)
- **Source:** [carinyaparc/skills](https://github.com/carinyaparc/skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-carinyaparc-skills-sprint-planning
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/carinyaparc
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