phase-amendlisted
Install: claude install-skill awjackson2/phase-skills
# Phase Amend
This is a **maintenance skill for the phase-skills authoring repo itself** — not one of the seven workflow skills that ship into other projects. Its job: apply a change to a shared phase-workflow convention *consistently everywhere it is expressed*.
## Why this exists
The conventions are deliberately **duplicated**. The canonical docs (`TERMINOLOGY.md`, `templates/`, `phase_project.md`) are the source of truth, but every skill also **embeds** the conventions it needs so it stays self-contained when dropped into a project alone. That duplication is a feature — and a liability: change the phase-number grammar in `phase-tracker` only, and `phase-recap`, the charter, `CLAUDE.md`, and the memory now disagree. Nothing at runtime catches that drift; a human reading one skill months later just gets a wrong rule.
So the value of this skill is **not** editing — it's knowing the full *sync surface* for a given convention and hitting all of it in one pass, then proving nothing was missed.
## The sync surface
Where each shared convention lives. Grep to confirm before editing (files shift as the suite grows) — treat this as the starting map, not gospel.
| Convention | Lives in |
|---|---|
| **Phase-number grammar** (`MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH`, digits-only, branch=Minor, Patch=commit) | `TERMINOLOGY.md` (hierarchy), `phase-tracker` (Terminology, Step 1, File-naming, Git rules), `phase-recap` (numbering-signal nuance), `phase-decompose`, `phase-adopt` (numbering origin), `phase