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prompt_version: 1
layer: phase
action: recertify
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# Prompt: Recertify Phase Overview

Review the selected phase overview against its parent slice, current repository behavior, workflow direction, and downstream milestone, task, implementation, and reconciliation evidence. Decide whether the phase should remain active as-is, be updated, be collapsed with related phase scope, be split, be deferred, be marked completed or superseded, or be removed from active planning input.

## Instructions

- Command placeholder: Expand `<day-shift-cli>` to the resolved session invocation. Use `day-shift` for installed/user mode after verification, and use `node dist/cli/index.js` in repository development mode when compiled `dist` output is current.
- Use this prompt when a phase overview may have become stale because child milestones have progressed, parent slice direction changed, repository behavior diverged, or the phase has already been satisfied.
- Treat recertification as phase lifecycle hygiene, not as authorization to create milestones, tasks, implementation summaries, or reconciliation artifacts.
- Compare the phase overview against current repository evidence before deciding disposition:
  - parent slice overview and upstream specification evidence
  - child milestone overviews, task definitions, implementation summaries, and reconciliation artifacts
  - current workflow, prompt, template, and command guidance
  - implemented CLI commands and tests when the phase concerns command behavior
- Separate stale wording from stale direction. A phase can need an update even when its underlying goal remains valid.
- Do not carry forward already-implemented behavior as future scope.
- If related phase scope now describes one active concern, recommend collapsing it into one phase and updating parent child declarations.
- If the phase is fully implemented, replaced, or no longer useful as active planning input, recommend marking it completed, superseded, or archived according to the repository's current lifecycle conventions.
- If the phase remains valid but should not be planned soon, recommend deferral instead of deleting it.
- Identify required metadata, parent traceability, declared milestone, and child-artifact cleanup if update, collapse, split, completion, or supersession is recommended.
- Preserve historical traceability where useful, but keep active planning inputs focused on current work.
- Keep the review read-only unless the user explicitly asks you to apply the recertification changes.
- Recertification, second-pass review, hardening, and improvement requests do not authorize downstream planning artifacts. Stop after phase hygiene recommendations unless the user explicitly asks to create or revise the next planning layer.

## Disposition Options

Use one of these dispositions for each reviewed phase:

- `keep-active`: the phase remains current, valid, and useful as active planning input.
- `update-active`: the goal remains valid, but wording, scope, metadata, milestone declarations, or traceability are stale.
- `collapse`: related active phase scope should be merged into one current planning input.
- `split`: the phase now spans distinct concerns that should be separated before further planning.
- `defer`: the phase remains valid but should not be treated as near-term active planning scope.
- `completed`: downstream evidence satisfies the phase intent and only closeout or metadata hygiene remains.
- `superseded`: the phase has been replaced by newer planning direction but should remain available for historical traceability.
- `remove-from-active-planning`: the phase should no longer be treated as active planning input because it is obsolete, duplicate, or no longer useful.

## Required Output

Return findings grouped as:

- Recertification Scope
- Current Evidence Reviewed
- Disposition By Phase
- Active Scope To Preserve
- Stale Or Implemented Scope To Remove
- Collapse Or Split Recommendations
- Metadata And Traceability Updates Needed
- Child Artifact Updates Needed
- Workflow Or Prompt Updates Needed
- Dangling Reference Checks
- User Decisions Needed

For each disposition, state:

- the phase overview path
- the recommended disposition
- why that disposition follows from current evidence
- whether file edits are needed
- whether parent declarations or child planning references must change
