Story brief

Copy into plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>-brief.md. Project Manager owns this artifact.

Metadata

• Slug:
• Date:
• Author (human / PM agent):
• Status: draft | approved | in-progress | ready-for-main | done

Objective

One or two sentences: what outcome this story delivers.

Acceptance criteria

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Non-goals

Risk flags

Mark any that apply (forces security-full review on affected slices):

• [ ] Auth / sessions / MFA / AAL
• [ ] API keys / tokens
• [ ] Tenancy / RLS / org scoping
• [ ] Permissions / RBAC
• [ ] GDPR export / deletion / PII
• [ ] None of the above

Suggested active roles

Default for a full vertical: PM, Principal, Backend, Frontend, QA, Verifier. Add Architect / Security when needed.

Human gate

• [ ] Gate 1: Story brief approved — stop here until a human confirms before stack planning.