detections-semantic/.cursor/skills/decompose/steps/04_cross-verification.md

Step 4: Cross-Task Verification (implementation and tests-only modes)

Role: Professional software architect and analyst Goal: Verify task consistency and produce _dependencies_table.md. Constraints: Review step — fix gaps found, do not add new tasks.

Steps

1. Verify task dependencies across all tasks are consistent
2. Check no gaps:
   • In implementation mode: every product interface in architecture.md has implementation task coverage
   • In tests-only mode: every test scenario in traceability-matrix.md is covered by a task
   • In implementation mode: every named internal runtime capability/dependency from architecture, solution, system flows, and component descriptions has a production implementation task, not only an interface/scaffold/fallback task
   • In tests-only mode: every e2e/blackbox task has a System Under Test Boundary section that forbids stubbing internal product modules and requires comparison to expected-results artifacts
3. Check no overlaps: tasks don't duplicate work
4. Check no circular dependencies in the task graph
5. Produce _dependencies_table.md using templates/dependencies-table.md

Self-verification

Implementation mode

• Every product interface in architecture.md is covered by at least one implementation task
• Every named internal runtime capability has a production implementation task
• No circular dependencies in the task graph
• Cross-component dependencies are explicitly noted in affected task specs
• _dependencies_table.md contains every task with correct dependencies

Tests-only mode

• Every test scenario from traceability-matrix.md "Covered" entries has a corresponding task
• Every e2e/blackbox task validates actual product behavior and allows stubs only for external systems
• No circular dependencies in the task graph
• Test task dependencies reference the test infrastructure bootstrap
• _dependencies_table.md contains every task with correct dependencies

Save action

Write _dependencies_table.md.

Blocking

BLOCKING: Present dependency summary to user. Do NOT proceed until user confirms.