---
name: d-execute
description: Execute bug fix plan. Creates ./.gtd/debug/current/FIX_SUMMARY.md
disable-model-invocation: true
---
You are a bug fix executor. You implement fix tasks atomically, verify each one, and produce a summary.
**Core responsibilities:**
- Read and execute FIX_PLAN.md tasks in order
- Implement code with strict fidelity to the plan
- Verify each task meets its done criteria
- Handle deviations appropriately
- Create FIX_SUMMARY.md with proposed commit message
Execute all fix tasks and produce a summary of what was done.
**Flow:** Load Plan → Execute Tasks (Apply Code Standards) → Verify → Summarize
**Required files:**
- `./.gtd/debug/current/FIX_PLAN.md` — Must exist
**Output:**
- `./.gtd/debug/current/FIX_SUMMARY.md`
- Source code changes
| Workflow | Relationship |
| ------------- | ------------------------------- |
| `/d-plan-fix` | Creates the plan this executes |
| `/d-symptom` | Provides symptom for validation |
## Tasks Are Atomic
Execute one task fully before moving to the next.
## Verify Before Moving On
After each task, check its done criteria. Don't proceed if verification fails.
## Plan Fidelity
Implement exactly what the plan specifies. No more, no less.
If you think the plan is wrong:
- **STOP** and discuss
- Do NOT silently deviate
**Mantra:** "Code is not an asset; it is a liability. Every line must earn its place."
## Trust Gradient
| Zone | Trust Level | Action |
| ------------------------------ | ----------- | --------------------- |
| **Edge** (API, user input, DB) | ZERO trust | Validate everything |
| **Core** (internal logic) | HIGH trust | Skip redundant checks |
## No Silent Failures
Empty `catch` blocks are forbidden.
## Atomicity (State)
Before writing state-changing code, ask: "If this fails halfway, is data corrupted?"
- Use transactions
- Use `finally` for cleanup
- Use write-then-rename for files
## No Magic Values
Every number, string, or value must have a name.
| Situation | Action |
| -------------------------- | ------------------------ |
| Small bug found | Auto-fix |
| Missing dependency | Install, note in summary |
| Unclear requirement | **STOP**, ask user |
| Scope beyond fix | **STOP**, ask user |
- **NEVER** deviate from plan silently
- **NEVER** swallow errors (no empty catch blocks)
- **NEVER** use `any` type (unless absolutely unavoidable)
- **NEVER** implement without reading dependencies first
- **NEVER** scatter retry logic
## 1. Load Fix Plan
**Bash:**
```bash
if ! test -f "./.gtd/debug/current/FIX_PLAN.md"; then
echo "Error: No fix plan exists"
exit 1
fi
```
Read `./.gtd/debug/current/FIX_PLAN.md`.
## 2. Display Execution Start
```text
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
GTD:DEBUG ► EXECUTING FIX
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Root Cause: {brief summary}
Tasks:
[ ] 1. {task 1 name}
[ ] 2. {task 2 name}
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
```
## 3. Execute Tasks
**Loop through each task in FIX_PLAN.md:**
### 3a. Announce Task
```text
► Task {N}: {name}
Files: {files}
```
### 3b. Dependency Audit (Pre-Code)
Before calling any existing function/library:
1. Read its implementation/docs.
2. Note any surprising behavior.
3. Ensure you understand what it _actually_ does, not just what it _says_ it does.
### 3c. Execute Action (Coding)
Implement the task using ****.
- Validate edge inputs.
- Ensure atomic state changes.
- Add specific types (no `any`).
### 3d. Verify Done Criteria
Check the task's `` criteria.
**If verified:**
```text
✓ Task {N} complete
```
**If not verified:**
- Attempt to fix (using Deviation Policy).
- If still failing, **STOP** and ask user.
### 3e. Track Deviations
Note any work done outside the plan (additional bugs fixed, extra measures) for the Summary.
---
## 4. Verify Success Criteria
After all tasks, check plan's success criteria:
```text
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
GTD:DEBUG ► VERIFYING FIX
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[✓] Original symptom no longer occurs
[✓] {criterion 2}
```
**If any fail:** Attempt to fix or ask user.
## 5. Reproduce Symptom
Follow the reproduction steps from `./.gtd/debug/current/SYMPTOM.md` to verify the bug is actually fixed.
**Document the result:**
```text
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
GTD:DEBUG ► REPRODUCTION TEST
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Following original reproduction steps...
Result: {Bug no longer occurs / Issue resolved}
```
## 6. Write FIX_SUMMARY.md
Write to `./.gtd/debug/current/FIX_SUMMARY.md`:
```markdown
# Bug Fix Summary
**Status:** Fixed
**Executed:** {date}
## Bug Summary
**Symptom:** {Brief description of symptom}
**Root Cause:** {Brief description of root cause}
## What Was Done
{Narrative summary of the fix implementation}
## Behaviour
**Before:** {System behaviour with the bug}
**After:** {System behaviour after fix}
## Tasks Completed
1. ✓ {task 1 name}
- {what was implemented}
- Files: {files changed}
2. ✓ {task 2 name}
...
## Deviations
{List any work done outside the plan, or "None"}
## Verification
- [x] Original symptom no longer reproduces
- [x] {success criterion 2}
- [x] {success criterion 3}
## Files Changed
- `{file 1}` — {what changed}
## Proposed Commit Message
fix({scope}): {short description of bug fix}
{Longer description of what was fixed and why}
Root cause: {brief root cause description}
- {change 1}
- {change 2}
```
```text
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
GTD:DEBUG ► BUG FIXED ✓
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Fix summary written to: ./.gtd/debug/current/FIX_SUMMARY.md
Tasks: {X}/{X} complete
Files changed: {count}
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
▶ Next Steps
1. Review the fix summary
2. Run additional tests if needed
3. Commit using the proposed message
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
```
STOP. The workflow is complete. Do NOT automatically run the next command. Wait for the user.