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Bug Report BR-059: UKW MoSCOW Update Omits In-Progress Story Tasks (Incomplete Coverage)

Bug ID: BR-059
Task ID: E6:S07:T109
Priority: HIGH
Severity: MEDIUM (board SoT diverges from story checklist; planners lose visibility)
Status: OPEN
Created: 2026-03-30
Last updated: 2026-03-31 — Implementing task E6:S07:T109 filed
Classification: UKW + Kanban board accuracy

Bug Summary​

A comprehensive UKW run promoted E5:S09:T01 to the MoSCOW Should section but did not add E5:S09:T02–T07, even though Story 009 lists all seven tasks as TODO / IN PROGRESS in its task checklist. Treating “one representative task per story” as sufficient is a workflow failure: the kanban board is expected to reflect all active tasks for an in-progress story unless explicitly deferred.

Problem Description​

Observed behavior​

  • Story: Story-009-docusaurus-documentation-portal.md — checklist shows E5:S09:T01–T07 (FR-065–FR-071), all still open.
  • After UKW (2026-03-30), kboard.md Should listed only T01.
  • Stakeholder expectation: every E5:S09 task that is not complete should appear on the board (or be explicitly moved to Won’t / documented deferral with rationale).

Expected behavior​

  • UKW Step 6 (MoSCOW) should either:
    1. Enumerate all non-complete tasks from the story’s task checklist for stories marked IN PROGRESS, or
    2. Fail loudly (agent summary + optional validator) when a story has N>1 open tasks but the board lists fewer than N without a documented exception.

Concrete example​

TaskFROn board after UKW (before fix)
E5:S09:T01FR-065Yes
E5:S09:T02FR-066No
E5:S09:T03FR-067No
E5:S09:T04FR-068No
E5:S09:T05FR-069No
E5:S09:T06FR-070No
E5:S09:T07FR-071No

Impact​

  • Planning: Teams assume the MoSCOW board is complete; missing rows hide parallelizable work (e.g. docs path, CI, deploy).
  • UKW trust: Partial updates read as “success” while coverage is incomplete (related pattern: BR-042).
  • Forensics: Harder to correlate FR chain FR-065–071 with visible board work.

Proposed direction (investigation)​

  1. Cursor rules / UKW guide: State explicitly that for IN PROGRESS stories, all open tasks from the story checklist must appear in MoSCOW (or Won’t with reason), not a single “lead” task.
  2. Agent procedure: UKW Step 6: diff story task checklist ↔ board rows for current epic/story scope; add missing rows in order T01…T07.
  3. Optional: Lightweight script or checklist item: “Story S09 open task count == board Should rows for E5:S09 (± deferrals).”
  4. Regression: Re-run UKW after fix on a story with multiple open tasks and confirm full enumeration.

Resolution / current status​

  • OPEN — Board manually corrected to list E5:S09:T01–T07; root cause (UKW agent/rules) still to be addressed under this BR.