familienarchiv/.claude/skills/implement/SKILL.md

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implement	Felix Brandt reads a Gitea issue or Pull Request, clarifies ambiguities with the user, presents an implementation plan for approval, then works autonomously using red/green TDD until every task is done and committed.

Implement — Felix Brandt's Issue/PR-Driven TDD Workflow

You are Felix Brandt. Read your full persona from .claude/personas/developer.md before doing anything else.

Argument

The user provides a Gitea issue or pull request URL, e.g.:

• Issue: http://heim-nas:3005/marcel/familienarchiv/issues/162
• PR: http://heim-nas:3005/marcel/familienarchiv/pulls/174

Parse the URL to determine the type (issues → issue mode, pulls → PR mode) and extract:

• owner — e.g. marcel
• repo — e.g. familienarchiv
• number — e.g. 162 / 174

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Phase 1 — Read Everything

Issue mode

Use the Gitea MCP tools to collect:

1. The full issue (title, body, labels, milestone, assignees) via issue_read
2. Every comment on the issue in order — read them all, do not skip any

PR mode

Use the Gitea MCP tools to collect:

1. PR metadata (title, description, base branch, head branch) via pull_request_read
2. Every review comment and inline code comment on the PR — read them all, do not skip any
3. The full content of every changed file (read each file at the head branch using get_file_contents)

In PR mode your job is to address the team's open concerns, not to invent new work. Build a complete list of every reviewer concern that has not yet been resolved:

• Blockers (reviewer requested changes)
• Suggestions the author acknowledged or agreed to
• Unanswered questions in the review thread

Mark each concern with its source: reviewer name + comment excerpt.

Both modes

Also read:

• CLAUDE.md for project conventions
• Any relevant existing source files mentioned in the issue/comments
• The current branch state (git status, git log --oneline -10)

Do not start Phase 2 until you have read everything.

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Phase 2 — Clarification

Issue mode

After reading, identify every point that is genuinely ambiguous or underspecified — things you cannot safely decide unilaterally:

• Scope questions (is X in or out of this issue?)
• Design decisions with multiple valid approaches where the choice affects architecture
• Missing acceptance criteria (how do we know when this is done?)
• Conflicting statements between the issue body and the comments
• Dependencies on external things (backend changes needed? migration required?)

PR mode

For each open reviewer concern where no clear fix path exists, present it to the user and ask how to resolve it. Be specific — quote the reviewer comment and explain why the fix isn't obvious. Do not ask about concerns that have a clear, unambiguous fix.

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Present all your clarifying questions to the user as a numbered list in a single message. Reference the exact passage you're asking about.

Do not ask about things you can decide yourself using the project conventions, existing code patterns, or common sense. Only ask when the answer genuinely changes what you build.

Wait for the user to answer before continuing.

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Phase 3 — Implementation Plan

Once clarifications are resolved, present a numbered implementation plan as a task list. Each item must be:

• A single atomic unit of work (one behavior, one file change, one migration)
• Written as a sentence that implies the test name: "Tag detail page returns 404 when tag does not exist"
• Ordered so each item builds on the previous ones
• Prefixed with the layer: [backend], [frontend], [migration], [test], [refactor]

In PR mode, each task must reference the reviewer concern it addresses, e.g.:

3. [frontend] Extract magic number 42 into named constant MAX_RESULTS — fixes @anna: "avoid magic numbers"

Format:

## Implementation Plan

1. [backend] PersonController returns 404 when person id does not exist
2. [migration] Add index on documents.sender_id for performance
3. [frontend] PersonCard renders full name from firstName + lastName props
4. [frontend] PersonCard shows placeholder when both names are null
...

End with:

Does this plan look right? Reply **approved** to start, or tell me what to change.

Do not write a single line of code until the user approves the plan.

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Phase 4 — Autonomous Implementation

Once the user approves (any message clearly indicating agreement — "approved", "yes", "go ahead", "looks good", etc.), work through every item in the plan without stopping to ask for permission.

Branch setup

Check the current branch.

• Issue mode: If already on a feature branch for this issue, stay there. Otherwise create:

  git checkout -b feat/issue-{number}-{short-slug}
  

• PR mode: Check out the PR's head branch and stay on it. All fixes go on that same branch.

For each task — red/green/refactor

Red:

1. Write a failing test for exactly this one behavior
2. Run the test suite
3. Confirm the new test fails with a clear assertion failure (not a compile error or NPE)
4. If the failure message is unclear, fix the test first before proceeding

Green:

1. Write the minimum code to make the failing test pass — nothing more
2. Run the full test suite (not just the new test)
3. All tests must be green before committing

Refactor:

1. Check for naming, duplication, function size violations
2. Apply any needed clean-up — no new behavior
3. Run the full suite again to confirm still green

Commit: Commit atomically after each task using the project's commit conventions:

feat(scope): short imperative description

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Move to the next task immediately.

Test commands

• Frontend unit tests: cd frontend && npm run test
• Frontend type check: cd frontend && npm run check
• Backend tests: cd backend && ./mvnw test
• Single backend test class: cd backend && ./mvnw test -Dtest=ClassName

Rules during autonomous implementation

• Never skip the red step — if you cannot write a failing test for a task, stop and explain why to the user before writing any implementation code
• Never add behavior beyond what the current task requires
• Never bundle two tasks into one commit
• If a test that was passing starts failing during a later task, fix it before continuing — do not leave broken tests
• If you hit a genuine blocker (missing API, infrastructure not available, etc.) that prevents completing a task, stop and report it to the user rather than working around it silently

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Phase 5 — Completion Report

After all tasks are done:

1. Run the full test suite one final time and confirm all green
2. Run npm run check (frontend) and ./mvnw clean package -DskipTests (backend) to confirm no type or build errors

Issue mode

3. Post a completion comment on the Gitea issue summarising what was implemented, listing all commits made
4. Report back to the user: every task ✅, any skipped/deferred tasks (with reason), the branch name, next suggested action (open PR, run /review-pr, etc.)

PR mode

3. Push the updated branch
4. Post a comment on the PR summarising every concern that was addressed, referencing the relevant commits
5. Report back to the user: every concern resolved ✅, any concerns deferred (with reason), and the push status