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feat(agents): Event Storming coaching capabilities for HVE Core
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Description
Overview
Bring Event Storming (ES) coaching capabilities to HVE Core, modeled on the existing
dt-coach agent (#563 Design Thinking coaching capabilities for HVE Core
). Event Storming is a widely-used
collaborative modeling technique for discovering domain events, aggregates, and
bounded contexts — it fits naturally as a companion or alternative entry point to
Design Thinking, feeding into the same RPI (Research, Plan, Implement, Review)
pipeline.
Motivation
- No HVE Core agent currently addresses domain discovery / event-driven modeling.
DT Coach covers human-centered problem framing; ES Coach would cover the
domain-modeling side once a problem is validated (or standalone, for teams
starting from a known domain rather than a fuzzy user problem). - Teams doing DDD/event-sourcing work today have to run Event Storming sessions
outside Copilot and manually transcribe results into specs — an ES Coach agent
could run the session interactively and produce structured handoff artifacts
directly.
Proposed approach (mirrors dt-coach)
- Agent:
es-coach— guides a session through the classic Event Storming
phases/levels (reusing the Think/Speak/Empower coaching philosophy from DT Coach):- Big Picture — chaotic exploration: domain events, actors, timeline
- Process Modeling — commands, policies, read models, hotspots
- Software Design — aggregates, bounded contexts, context map
- Session state persisted the same way as DT Coach:
.copilot-tracking/es/{project-slug}/coaching-state.md - Coach never prescribes the model — it facilitates (asks questions, surfaces
conflicting events, flags hotspots) rather than generating the domain model itself. - Exit points produce structured handoff artifacts (event catalog, aggregate
boundaries, context map) that feed intorpi-researchthe same way DT's
Problem Statement / Concept Validated / Implementation Spec handoffs do. - Could optionally reuse/extend the existing C4 notation work (architecture-diagrams
skill) for rendering the resulting context map.
Open questions
- Standalone plugin (
plugins/event-storming/) vs. extendingdesign-thinking
plugin with an ES track alongside DT's 9 methods? - Should ES Coach be positioned as pre-DT (domain discovery before problem
framing), post-DT (solution space → domain model), or independent, given
teams enter at different points? - Reuse DT Coach's session-state format as-is, or define an ES-specific schema
given events/aggregates ≠ DT's problem/solution artifacts?
References
- DT Coach agent:
docs/design-thinking/dt-coach.md - DT Coach epic: #563
- DT/RPI integration contract:
docs/design-thinking/why-design-thinking.md
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading docs/design-thinking/dt-coach.md and docs/design-thinking/why-design-thinking.md, then compare the proposed ES phases, session state, and RPI handoffs with the existing DT Coach. Resolve the open questions about plugin placement, lifecycle position, and state schema before defining the implementation scope. Done means the scope and integration contract for an ES Coach are agreed.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- ai, developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100