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phase: planning
title: Project Planning & Task Breakdown
description: Break down work into actionable tasks and estimate timeline
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# Project Planning & Task Breakdown

## Milestones
**What are the major checkpoints?**

- [x] Milestone 1: Requirements, design, and planning docs completed
- [x] Milestone 2: CLI implementation for `--table` output completed
- [x] Milestone 3: Tests and verification completed

## Task Breakdown
**What specific work needs to be done?**

### Phase 1: Foundation
- [x] Task 1.1: Confirm current `memory search` behavior and option parsing path
- [x] Task 1.2: Finalize requirement/design for table output columns (`id`, `title`, `scope`)

### Phase 2: Core Features
- [x] Task 2.1: Add `--table` option to `memory search` command in CLI
- [x] Task 2.2: Implement output branching: default JSON vs table rendering
- [x] Task 2.3: Map search results to table rows with fields `id`, `title`, `scope`
- [x] Task 2.4: Handle no-result and missing-field display behavior

### Phase 3: Integration & Polish
- [x] Task 3.1: Add/adjust unit tests for CLI output mode behavior
- [x] Task 3.2: Add/adjust tests for table content and edge cases
- [x] Task 3.3: Update command help text and relevant docs

## Dependencies
**What needs to happen in what order?**

- Requirements/design must be approved before code changes.
- CLI option parsing update must land before table rendering assertions.
- Tests depend on deterministic table output formatting.
- No external service dependency changes.

## Timeline & Estimates
**When will things be done?**

- Estimated effort
  - Phase 2: Completed
  - Phase 3: Completed
- Target sequence
  - Milestone 2 completed after implementation pass
  - Milestone 3 completed after tests and docs updates
- Buffer
  - 0.25 day for CLI formatting/test fixture adjustments

## Risks & Mitigation
**What could go wrong?**

- Technical risks
  - Table output formatting could be brittle in tests.
  - Terminal width may truncate long titles.
- Resource risks
  - None significant for this scoped change.
- Dependency risks
  - Existing JSON consumers could break if default behavior changes accidentally.
- Mitigation strategies
  - Preserve JSON as default path and gate table mode behind `--table`.
  - Use stable expected snapshots/strings for output tests.
  - Explicitly test both `--table` and default behavior.

## Resources Needed
**What do we need to succeed?**

- Team members and roles
  - CLI maintainer/reviewer.
- Tools and services
  - Existing Jest test suite and terminal UI helper.
- Infrastructure
  - Local development environment only.
- Documentation/knowledge
  - Existing memory command and terminal table patterns in repo.
