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A brief from someone who is not the maintainer will be underspecified in ways the author
does not notice. Decomposing it directly produces a confident, wrong backlog.
Scope
Intake that accepts free-text and returns targeted clarifying questions, ending in a
structured intent record: goal, in-scope, explicitly out-of-scope, constraints (language,
runtime, deployment target), and the definition of success in the submitter's own words
Ask only about ambiguities that would change the backlog — question volume is a cost, and
a submitter who abandons intake is worse than a slightly underspecified plan
Record the unresolved ambiguities that intake could not settle, so downstream steps and
the operator can see what was assumed
A vague one-paragraph brief becomes an intent record a third party could decompose from,
with unresolved assumptions listed rather than silently invented.
Problem
A brief from someone who is not the maintainer will be underspecified in ways the author
does not notice. Decomposing it directly produces a confident, wrong backlog.
Scope
structured intent record: goal, in-scope, explicitly out-of-scope, constraints (language,
runtime, deployment target), and the definition of success in the submitter's own words
a submitter who abandons intake is worse than a slightly underspecified plan
the operator can see what was assumed
Acceptance
A vague one-paragraph brief becomes an intent record a third party could decompose from,
with unresolved assumptions listed rather than silently invented.
Out of scope
Generating the backlog (sibling).