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name: Plan A Feature To Confluence
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description: Plan A Feature To Confluence builds a feature specification with plan-a-feature and publishes it to a chosen Confluence location. It posts the spec as a parent page and related planning artifacts as child pages.
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# Plan A Feature To Confluence

Plan A Feature To Confluence builds a feature specification with plan-a-feature and publishes it to a chosen Confluence location. It posts the spec as a parent page and related planning artifacts as child pages.

**Install:**

```bash
npx degit https://github.com/testdouble/han/tree/main/han-atlassian/skills/plan-a-feature-to-confluence ~/.claude/skills/plan-a-feature-to-confluence
```

## README

## Project Context

- personal config directory: !`bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/han-config-dir.sh" 2>/dev/null || echo "$HOME/.claude"`
- project .han/config.md: !`cat .han/config.md 2>/dev/null || echo ""`

As your first action, use the Read tool on `.han/config.md` inside the `personal config directory` path above. A read
that returns no file is no personal configuration: continue silently. When that file or the `project .han/config.md`
probe supplies content, apply it per [config-rule.md](../../references/config-rule.md), which governs precedence
between the two files, relative-path resolution, and what to do with a file that reads but cannot be used.

# Plan a Feature to Confluence

This skill builds a feature specification with the core `han-planning:plan-a-feature` skill, lets the user review the
result, and then publishes it to a Confluence location that **the user must specify**. It is a thin orchestrator: the
planning work belongs to `han-planning:plan-a-feature`, and the publishing work belongs to
`han-atlassian:markdown-to-confluence`. This skill only validates its inputs, runs the planning skill to a temporary
folder, gets the user's review and publish choice, and hands each file to the publisher.

`han-planning:plan-a-feature` produces a small **set** of files — the primary `feature-specification.md` plus companion
artifacts under `artifacts/` (the decision log, the team findings, and a lazily-created technical-notes file). This
skill publishes the **spec as a parent page** and each companion artifact as a **child page** beneath it, so the whole
plan lands in Confluence as one small page tree. The files cross-reference each other with relative links that do not
resolve once each file is its own Confluence page. Because this skill decides every page's title up front, it rewrites
those cross-file links into Confluence **title-based page-link macros** (the
`<ac:link><ri:page ri:content-title="..."/>…</ac:link>` form; Step 5 gives the exact macro to emit, link body and all)
before creating any page — these resolve by title at view time, so no page URL or ID has to exist first. That collapses
publishing to a **single create pass**: there is no separate relink-and-update pass, and each page is created exactly
once.

The six steps below are the whole skill. It does not resolve Confluence pages or call the Confluence MCP create/update
tools itself; `han-atlassian:markdown-to-confluence` owns all of that.

## Step 1: Validate Inputs

Confirm the skill has everything it needs before spending effort producing a plan:

1. **Atlassian MCP reachable (hard requirement).** Call `mcp__claude_ai_Atlassian__getAccessibleAtlassianResources` to
   confirm the server is connected and retrieve the cloud ID(s). If the tool is not available, the call errors, or it
   returns no accessible resources (typically an authentication or configuration problem), **stop immediately**. Tell
   the user this skill requires the Atlassian MCP server to be installed, configured, and authenticated, and that they
   can re-run it once it is connected. Do not fall back to a local-only run; for local-only planning, point them at
   `han-planning:plan-a-feature`. This preflight runs first so a missing server fails before any planning work begins.
2. **A feature to plan.** Confirm the request names a feature, capability, or system behavior to specify. This —
   together with the `size` argument and any relevant conversation context — is forwarded to
   `han-planning:plan-a-feature` verbatim in Step 2. If the request is too thin to start, let
   `han-planning:plan-a-feature` run its own interview; do not pre-empt it here.
3. **A Confluence destination.** Confirm the request provides a target location: a **Confluence page URL** (to update
   that page, or create the spec as a child under it), or a **space** (key or name) plus an optional **parent page**. If
   none was provided, ask for one with `AskUserQuestion`, explaining plainly that the skill needs an exact destination
   because it does not search Confluence. Do not resolve the page tree here — only confirm a location was given. Carry
   it through to Step 5; `han-atlassian:markdown-to-confluence` resolves it.

## Step 2: Produce the Plan to a Temporary Folder

Invoke the `han-planning:plan-a-feature` skill with the **Skill** tool, **forwarding all provided context** verbatim:
the `size` argument (if the user passed `small`, `medium`, or `large`), the feature description, any known constraints
or entry points, and the relevant conversation context. Do not summarize, trim, or reinterpret the user's context; pass
it through so `han-planning:plan-a-feature` runs exactly as it would on its own — interview, review team, finding
resolution, and plan-synthesizer synthesis included — **except** add one explicit instruction: it must write its output
folder under `/tmp/` (for example `/tmp/<feature-slug>/`) rather than into the repo's docs directory, and it should not
prompt the user to choose or confirm an output location, because this skill owns that decision. This keeps the working
plan out of the repo until the user decides to publish it, and because the path is explicit input it outranks any
`output-directory` the project or personal `.han/config.md` supplies (see
[../../references/config-rule.md](../../references/config-rule.md)).

Let `han-planning:plan-a-feature` complete its full process. **Capture the exact `/tmp/` paths of every file it wrote:**

- `/tmp/<feature-slug>/feature-specification.md` — the primary spec (always written).
- `/tmp/<feature-slug>/artifacts/decision-log.md` — the decision history (always written).
- `/tmp/<feature-slug>/artifacts/team-findings.md` — the review-team findings (always written).
- `/tmp/<feature-slug>/artifacts/feature-technical-notes.md` — load-bearing mechanics. **Lazily created — only present
  if at least one technical note qualified.** Confirm whether it exists before relying on it.

Proceed to Step 3 once it finishes.

## Step 3: Show the Files for Review

Tell the user the exact `/tmp/` paths of every generated file — the spec and each companion artifact that was actually
written (the technical-notes file only if it exists) — so they can open and review them before deciding whether to
publish. State plainly that nothing has been published anywhere yet.

## Step 4: Confirm the Publish Choice

Publishing to Confluence puts the content where other people can see it, so require an explicit choice before posting.
Ask with `AskUserQuestion`, restating the **`/tmp/` file paths** and the **Confluence destination** the user provided,
and making clear that publishing creates **one parent page (the spec) plus one child page per companion artifact**, and
that the cross-page links between them resolve **by page title** — so the published pages should not be renamed in
Confluence afterward, or the inbound cross-links break. Offer three options, listing the draft option first as the
recommended default:

- **"Yes, save them as drafts to edit later (recommended)"** — every page is published as an unpublished Confluence
  draft for the user to review, edit, and publish themselves. This is the default. (Publish mode: **draft**.)
- **"Yes, publish them live now"** — the pages go live immediately. (Publish mode: **live**.)
- **"No, keep them local only"** — nothing is published.

If the user keeps it local only, **stop**. Report the `/tmp/` folder path and state clearly that nothing was published
to Confluence. Otherwise, record the chosen publish mode (draft or live) for Step 5. The chosen mode applies to every
page in the tree.

## Step 5: Rewrite Cross-Links to Title Macros, Then Publish the Tree

Publishing is a **single create pass**: rewrite the cross-file links into title-based page-link macros first, then
create each page once with its final body. No second update pass is needed, because the macros resolve by title and do
not depend on any page URL or ID.

**Decide every page's final title up front.** The title is used in two places — as the page's create-title, and as the
`ri:content-title` in every macro that links to that page — so pick each title once and reuse it in both, so they can
never drift apart:

- **Spec (the parent page):** the feature name.
- **Decision log:** `<Feature Name> — Decision Log`.
- **Team findings:** `<Feature Name> — Team Findings`.
- **Technical notes** (only if the file exists): `<Feature Name> — Technical Notes`.

These titles must be **distinct within the target space** for the macros to resolve unambiguously. A `ri:content-title`
macro resolves against the **whole space**, not just this tree, so a title that collides with a page that already exists
in the destination space is a real hazard: the link can resolve to the wrong page, and the create call may fail or be
rejected for a duplicate title. The feature-name prefix keeps the four titles distinct from each other; pick a spec
title specific enough that it is unlikely to already exist in the space, and if you have any signal that one does (for
example the user pointed at a page that already carries the feature name), choose a more specific title before
publishing.

1. **Rewrite cross-file links to title macros, leaving the `/tmp/` originals intact.** Write the rewritten copies to a
   dedicated subfolder (for example `/tmp/<feature-slug>/.confluence-publish/`) so the originals the user reviewed in
   Step 3 keep their working local markdown links. For each file, read it once and rewrite **only** the cross-file
   links:
   - Resolve each relative markdown link target against the directory of the file being rewritten. If it resolves to
     **another file in the published set**, replace the whole markdown link `[text](target#fragment)` with a Confluence
     title-based page-link macro pointing at that file's pre-decided title:

     ```
     <ac:link><ri:page ri:content-title="TARGET PAGE TITLE"/><ac:plain-text-link-body><![CDATA[text]]></ac:plain-text-link-body></ac:link>
     ```

     Omit `ri:space-key` — the whole tree lands in one space, so a same-space title reference resolves without it. Keep
     the original link text inside the link body. If that text contains the sequence `]]>`, it would close the `CDATA`
     section early and produce malformed storage XML, so split it across two `CDATA` sections (`]]` in the first, `>` in
     the next) or drop the `CDATA` wrapper and XML-escape the text instead. Plain markdown emphasis in the link text
     (`**bold**`) is not rendered inside a plain-text link body; it posts as literal characters.

   - **Drop the `#fragment`** (the `#d4-...`, `#t3-...`, or section anchor). Confluence Cloud generates its own heading
     anchors with a scheme that does not match these slugs, so the link lands the reader at the **top of the correct
     page**, not the exact heading. (The macro form leaves the door open to add an explicit `ri:anchor` later if a
     space's heading-anchor scheme is pinned down; do not emit anchors now.)
   - Leave every other link, and all other content, exactly as written. Do not touch links that point outside the
     published set (external URLs, code references).

2. **Publish the tree in one create pass.** Use the **Skill** tool for every call, and apply the publish mode the user
   chose in Step 4 to all of them — state it explicitly so `han-atlassian:markdown-to-confluence` does not re-ask.
   - **Publish the spec (the parent page) first**, from its rewritten copy. Invoke
     `han-atlassian:markdown-to-confluence`, forwarding the rewritten spec copy's path, the **Confluence destination**
     the user provided in Step 1 (passed through verbatim), the **publish mode** from Step 4, and the **spec title**
     decided above. **Capture the resulting spec page's URL and page ID** — the parent for the artifact pages, and
     needed for the final report.
   - **Publish each existing artifact as a child of the spec page**, from its rewritten copy. For each artifact file
     that exists (`decision-log.md`, `team-findings.md`, and `feature-technical-notes.md` only if it was created),
     invoke `han-atlassian:markdown-to-confluence` again, forwarding the rewritten artifact copy's path, the **spec
     page's URL** as the destination with the intent to **create a new child page under it** (state this explicitly so
     the publisher does not ask whether to update the spec page), the same **publish mode**, and the artifact's
     **pre-decided title**. Publish the artifacts one at a time so each create resolves against the same parent.

   `han-atlassian:markdown-to-confluence` owns location resolution, the create call, and Mermaid handling for each file.
   Because every body already carries its final title-macro links, each page is created exactly once — there is no
   update pass.

**Mermaid still posts as source.** As `han-atlassian:markdown-to-confluence` reports, Mermaid diagrams publish as fenced
code blocks, not rendered diagrams, unless the space has a Mermaid macro. This is not something to silently fix.

Relay the result to the user: the spec parent page's URL, every artifact child page's URL, whether the tree went live or
was saved as drafts, and the caveats: cross-page links resolve **by page title** and land at the **top** of the target
page (heading-level anchors are not preserved); because they resolve by title, **renaming** a published page in
Confluence may break inbound cross-page links; and the Mermaid note. If any create fails partway through the tree,
report which file failed and its error, and note which pages were already created. Warn the user that those
already-created pages carry title-macro links pointing at the pages that did not get created, so those links dangle
until the missing pages exist under their intended titles — and that simply re-running the whole skill would re-create
the pages that already succeeded, producing duplicate-title pages that break title resolution for the tree. Recommend
they create the missing page(s) by hand under the intended titles, or delete the partial tree and re-publish from clean.
Confirm the `/tmp/` originals are unchanged and intact either way.

## Step 6: Verification

1. **Inputs validated:** the Atlassian server was reachable, a feature to plan was present, and a Confluence location
   was provided — or the skill stopped before doing any work.
2. **Plan produced to /tmp:** `han-planning:plan-a-feature` ran with the full forwarded context and wrote its files
   under a `/tmp/` folder whose paths were captured, including whether the lazily-created technical-notes file exists.
3. **User reviewed:** the `/tmp/` paths were shown to the user before any publish.
4. **Explicit choice obtained:** the user chose draft, live, or local-only.
5. **Tree published in a single pass:** when the user chose to publish, titles were decided up front, cross-file links
   were rewritten into title-based page-link macros in copies under `.confluence-publish/` (fragments dropped, `/tmp/`
   originals untouched), the spec was posted as the parent page and each existing companion artifact as a child page in
   the chosen mode, and each page was created exactly once with its URL captured.
6. **Reported:** every page URL was relayed with the publish mode, the resolve-by-title and land-at-page-top caveat, the
   rename caveat, and the Mermaid note; when the user declined, only the `/tmp/` files exist.
