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Every docs page now links the first occurrence of each AI Coding
Dictionary term to its entry on aihero.dev. 202 links across 25 pages,
one link per term per page. Prose is unchanged — only links added.

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## What it does
`to-tickets` takes a plan, a spec, or the conversation you are in, and breaks it into a set of **tickets** on your issue tracker. Each ticket declares its **blocking edges** — the other tickets that have to finish before it can start.
`to-tickets` takes a plan, a [spec](https://www.aihero.dev/ai-coding-dictionary/spec), or the conversation you are in, and breaks it into a set of **[tickets](https://www.aihero.dev/ai-coding-dictionary/ticket)** on your issue tracker. Each ticket declares its **blocking edges** — the other tickets that have to finish before it can start.
Every ticket is a **tracer bullet**: a narrow but complete path through every layer of the change — schema, API, UI, tests — that can be demoed on its own the moment it lands. That is the constraint that makes it behave differently from the obvious way to split work, which is to cut one layer at a time and integrate at the end. It also sizes each ticket to fit in a single fresh context window, because the thing that will pick the ticket up is a session that has never seen your spec.
Every ticket is a **tracer bullet**: a narrow but complete path through every layer of the change — schema, API, UI, tests — that can be demoed on its own the moment it lands. That is the constraint that makes it behave differently from the obvious way to split work, which is to cut one layer at a time and integrate at the end. It also sizes each ticket to fit in a single fresh [context window](https://www.aihero.dev/ai-coding-dictionary/context-window), because the thing that will pick the ticket up is a [session](https://www.aihero.dev/ai-coding-dictionary/session) that has never seen your spec.
## When to reach for it
You invoke this by typing `/to-tickets` — the agent won't reach for it on its own.
You invoke this by typing `/to-tickets` — the [agent](https://www.aihero.dev/ai-coding-dictionary/agent) won't reach for it on its own.
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## Common questions
**It produced twelve tickets for a three-line change.**
Over-decomposition is the most reported friction on this skill, and it is consistent across practitioners: the model defaults to atomic units and loses the grouping that would make them meaningful. The quiz step exists for exactly this — ask it to merge, and it will. The deeper answer is that the tickets have a floor: if the whole change fits in one context window, you don't need this skill at all. Go straight to [implement](https://aihero.dev/skills-implement).
Over-decomposition is the most reported friction on this skill, and it is consistent across practitioners: the [model](https://www.aihero.dev/ai-coding-dictionary/model) defaults to atomic units and loses the grouping that would make them meaningful. The quiz step exists for exactly this — ask it to merge, and it will. The deeper answer is that the tickets have a floor: if the whole change fits in one context window, you don't need this skill at all. Go straight to [implement](https://aihero.dev/skills-implement).
**The tickets came out one per layer — all the schema in one, all the API in another.**
This is the failure the vertical-slice rule is written against, and the skill still produces it sometimes. Catch it at the quiz step by asking one question per ticket: what can I demo when this is done? A ticket with no answer is a horizontal slice. Some people add a "demo path" line to each ticket for this reason, and report it nudges the model toward vertical decomposition.
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They did, and that was a bug — a single shared file also raced when parallel agents wrote to it. Local mode now writes one file per ticket under `.scratch/<feature-slug>/issues/<NN>-<slug>.md`, in dependency order, matching the layout the local tracker template already described. The `NN` prefix is a real ticket ID, so `/implement 03` works instead of retyping a long title.
**It kept truncating when it tried to read my spec.**
A very large spec can outgrow what a tracker issue serves back cleanly, and there is no local copy to fall back on — the agent then burns tool calls re-fetching chunks and never reaches the end. Don't clear or compact between `/to-spec` and `/to-tickets`. Run them in the same context window and the spec never has to be fetched back at all.
A very large spec can outgrow what a tracker issue serves back cleanly, and there is no local copy to fall back on — the agent then burns [tool calls](https://www.aihero.dev/ai-coding-dictionary/tool-call) re-fetching chunks and never reaches the end. Don't [clear](https://www.aihero.dev/ai-coding-dictionary/clearing) or [compact](https://www.aihero.dev/ai-coding-dictionary/compaction) between `/to-spec` and `/to-tickets`. Run them in the same context window and the spec never has to be fetched back at all.
**The acceptance criteria graded nothing — some passed before any work was done.**
The template asks for criteria and says nothing about whether they can fail, so this happens. Three shapes recur: a criterion already true at the base commit, a criterion that can only be satisfied by work another ticket owns, and one that restates the request rather than deriving from the artifact. Vertical slicing prevents most of it — a slice that delivers behaviour which didn't exist before is red at the base commit by construction — but the check is worth doing by hand. For each criterion, name the observation that would show it false, and confirm it fails at the commit the implementer starts from.