Create Stories: PRD → Ticket Backlog

Overview

Turn a finished PRD into a backlog of small, well-formed tickets. Each Implementation Phase in the PRD becomes a group of tickets; each User Story becomes one or more tickets with explicit acceptance criteria.

This skill is platform-agnostic by design, the --platform flag decides whether the backlog lands in Jira or in GitHub Issues. Everything before that flag (reading the PRD, decomposing it, writing acceptance criteria) is identical.

Arguments

Argument	Required	Meaning
<prd-path>	yes	Path to the PRD produced by plan-create-prd
--platform	yes	jira or github, where the tickets are created
--project	jira only	Jira project key (e.g. HELP)
--epic	jira only	Jira epic key to parent the tickets under (e.g. HELP-1)
--milestone	github only	optional GitHub milestone to attach issues to

If --platform is missing, stop and ask, do not guess.

Workflow

1. Read and decompose the PRD

• Read <prd-path> in full.
• Walk the Implementation Phases section. Each phase is a ticket group.
• Walk the User Stories section. Each story maps to one ticket (split if it hides more than ~a day of work).
• For every ticket, draft:
  • Title, imperative, specific (Add token refresh endpoint, not Auth).
  • Description, what and why, linked back to the PRD phase.
  • Acceptance criteria, a checklist a reviewer can verify.
  • Phase label, which PRD phase it belongs to.
• Keep tickets small. A ticket that can't be described in one screen is two tickets.

2. Confirm the plan before creating anything

Print the proposed ticket list (titles + phase grouping) and the target platform. This is the checkpoint, creating real tickets is not reversible in one click.

3. Create the tickets, branch on --platform