feat(agents): answer planning questions without unnecessary plan edits#479
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…ithout plan edits
The planning comment agent previously assumed every comment required plan
modifications, wasting iterations on unnecessary UpdateWorkItem calls when
users just asked questions like "Why this approach?" or "Can you explain
step 3?". Mirror the pattern from respond-to-pr-comment: classify the
comment as a question (PostComment only), a plan update (existing behavior),
or both, and act accordingly.
- Add Comment Classification section (Category A/B/C) to the prompt template
- Soften CRITICAL rules: "ONLY job" → "primary role", remove unconditional
UpdateWorkItem mandate
- Add branching task flow: questions get PostComment-only, updates get plan
edits + summary, mixed gets both
- Add question-only response format ("Re: [topic]") alongside existing
"Plan Updated" format
- Update taskPrompts.ts buildCommentResponsePrompt with classification
instruction matching buildPRCommentResponsePrompt pattern
- Add tests for new classification behavior and template rendering
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
respond-to-planning-commentagent to classify comments as questions, plan updates, or both — and act accordinglyPostCommentreply only, without wastefulUpdateWorkItemcallsrespond-to-pr-comment/buildPRCommentResponsePromptChanges
src/agents/prompts/templates/respond-to-planning-comment.eta— Add Comment Classification section (Category A/B/C), branching task flow, dual response format, updated rulessrc/agents/shared/taskPrompts.ts— UpdatebuildCommentResponsePromptwith classification instructiontests/unit/agents/prompts.test.ts— Add 5 tests for template rendering of new classification sectionstests/unit/agents/shared/taskPrompts.test.ts— Add 3 tests for new classification, question-only, and ambiguous-default behaviorTest plan
npm run typecheckpassesnpm run lintpasses🤖 Generated with Claude Code