Story: Claude Code skills expansion

Table of Contents

This page documents a story in Sprint 05. It captures the goal, current status, acceptance criteria, and the tasks that compose it.

Goal

Grow the Claude Code skills layer beyond the PlantUML seed planted in sprint 04: a new-sprint skill that automates opening the next sprint, a release-notes skill that drives the GitHub release notes off the backlog, and project-planning support borrowed from Dogen.

Status

Field Value
State DONE
Parent sprint Sprint 05
Now Completed 2025-11-17.
Waiting on None.
Next None.
Last touched 2025-11-17

Acceptance

  • new-sprint skill exists and runs against this codebase.
  • release-notes-generator skill exists.
  • Project planning approach (TaskJuggler in org-mode) ported and documented.

Tasks

Task State Start End Description
Create a Claude Code skill to open a new sprint DONE 2025-11-17 2025-11-17 Skill that updates version strings, copies the backlog template, and creates the next sprint backlog file.
Add skill to generate release notes DONE 2025-11-17 2025-11-17 Skill that produces release notes from a sprint backlog automatically.
Add support for project planning DONE 2025-11-17 2025-11-17 Bring across the Dogen-style project-planning approach (Gantt-style milestones in org-mode) and a supporting skill.

Decisions

Skills as the operational front-end
every recurring multi-step task earns a skill rather than a private script.

Out of scope

  • A complete taxonomy of skills (the weaving analysis from sprint 04 identifies it as future work).

See also

Emacs 29.1 (Org mode 9.6.6)