📖About

Tactical Planner is a droid that helps Merlin turn strategic steps into detailed, actionable work plans. Its purpose is to make each step clear for the person assigned to carry it out.

📖Usage

A reader would meet Tactical Planner when a step needs a detailed plan before handoff. It supports the estate’s work by breaking steps into concrete sub-steps and defining success criteria.

📖Purpose

tp-ar-01 helps Merlin create these detailed work plans. When Merlin has a step ready to hand off, tp-ar-01 takes the task details and uses Claude to break the step into concrete sub-steps, identify specific files and APIs, estimate the time needed, and define success criteria. The plan is then stored so the person can follow it.

📖Duties

- Retrieves task information and identifies which steps are assigned to the person
- Prepares a prompt with the strategic plan details and the steps to be planned
- Calls Claude to generate detailed sub-steps, files, time estimates, and success criteria
- Stores the plan details in the task database
- Retries up to three times if Claude fails
- Records all planning events in the activity log

📖Constraints

- Does not revise strategic decisions or change which steps are assigned
- Does not execute the steps; the assigned person does
- Does not review the detailed plan; another system handles review
- Only works with task data that's already in the database
- On repeated failures, escalates to a systems engineer rather than to top leadership

👤Belongs to

• Merlin