📖About

Step Planner is a planning droid owned by Merlin. It turns a strategic step into a detailed plan for a single task, ready to hand off to teams.

📖Usage

Step Planner is used on demand when Merlin needs a task plan for the estate’s work. It helps prepare the task for execution by the teams.

📖Purpose

SP-01 lets Merlin produce task plans without multi-turn conversation. It gathers the current rules, policies, team structure, and available tools, then uses the model assigned to its active service track to reason through a task with standard scope and execution checklists. Merlin gets back a structured plan to dispatch.

📖Duties

- Reads governance context (constitution, policies, org structure, available tools, design decisions)
- Uses its active service track to generate a plan with S1-S12 scope and A-J execution checklists
- Streams the output to detect phase transitions in real time
- Extracts the most relevant evidence from each checklist step
- Tracks memory usage and enforces timeout gates
- Returns a structured plan JSON

📖Constraints

- Plans in a single model call (no refinement rounds)
- Follows the provider and model on its active service track; registry prose never pins either
- Works on-demand only (not on a schedule)
- Requires governance sources to be reachable
- Plans one task at a time
- Does not rescope or replan failed tasks (that is another droid's responsibility)

👤Belongs to

• Merlin