How do I plan a sprint?

How do I plan a sprint — set its mission, score backlog candidates against it, and promote selected captures into stories?

1. Open the current sprint document and confirm or set the mission:

   ./projects/ores.compass/compass.sh list --type sprint --sort path | tail -3
   

   The * Mission must be a single sentence before scoring can proceed. If it reads (One sentence — what this sprint exists to achieve.) it is unset — agree on it with the user now.

2. Note what is already committed — read the sprint's * Stories table. STARTED and BACKLOG stories are already in scope; do not re-select them.

3. List next-bucket candidates:

   ./projects/ores.compass/compass.sh next
   

4. Score each candidate on three axes — record results as a table before presenting to the user:

   Criterion	Scoring guidance
   Fit	Direct mission advance = high; tangential = low
   Size	One sprint / one story = high; multi-sprint = low
   Ready	No blockers, no unresolved dependencies = high

5. Present the ranked candidates and get the user's confirmation on which to promote. Sprint scope is always the user's decision.

6. Promote each confirmed capture to a story:

   a. Scaffold the story in the sprint folder, preserving the capture's :ID: with --id. Use compass add — it defaults --parent-dir to the current sprint automatically:

   projects/ores.compass/compass.sh add story \
     --slug <slug> \
     --id <capture-uuid> \
     --title "<title>" --description "<description>"
   

   Pass --parent-dir doc/agile/versions/v0/sprint_NN explicitly only if the story belongs to a sprint other than the current one.

   b. Remove the capture from the backlog:

   git rm doc/agile/product_backlog/next/<slug>.org
   

   c. Fill in the story's * Goal, * Acceptance, and at least one task skeleton.

7. Add each promoted story to the sprint's * Stories table:

   | [[id:<uuid>][<title>]] | BACKLOG | YYYY-MM-DD | | <one-line theme> |
   

8. Commit:

   git add doc/agile/versions/v0/sprint_NN/ \
           doc/agile/product_backlog/ \
           doc/agile/versions/v0/sprint_NN/sprint.org
   git commit -m "[agile] Sprint NN — promote N stories from backlog"
   

After planning, use How do I start work on a story? to move the first story from BACKLOG → STARTED and create its feature branch.

No single script — the compass-agile-plan-sprint Claude Code skill orchestrates this procedure interactively.

Manual. Run once per sprint, at the start of the planning phase.

• Sprint planner — Claude Code skill for this procedure.
• How do I refine the backlog? — run before planning to ensure candidates are clean.
• How do I start work on a story? — next step after planning.
• How do I open a new sprint? — use this first if the sprint has not been scaffolded yet.
• How do I add a doc with compass? — preferred way to create stories and tasks.
• How do I create a new doc? — full codegen reference for all doc types.