Plan A Feature To Confluence

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:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

project-manager 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.

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.

• **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 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).

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• User reviewed: the /tmp/ paths were shown to the user before any publish.
• Explicit choice obtained: the user chose draft, live, or local-only.
• 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.

• 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.