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refine-ticket

Refine a development ticket — or brainstorm a raw idea — into a validated, self-contained REQUIREMENTS document — the "what", verified against the codebase. Invoke manually only.

skills/refine-ticket/SKILL.md

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# Refine ticket

The **Refine** phase of Refine → Plan → Act: turn a raw ticket — or an idea to brainstorm — into a
validated requirements document a fresh session can plan from. Analysis only — it defines **what**
must be true when the work is done, never **how** to build it, and never touches code.

An idea is a ticket that doesn't exist yet: treat the user's words as the ticket text, and grill
to shape the idea itself — goal, in vs out of scope — before closing the branches that block
implementation.

## Input

A `.TICKET.md` path, a ticket URL or bare id, or an idea in words. When the harness has subagents
and fetch-ticket is available (`../fetch-ticket/SKILL.md` beside this skill), a URL or id is