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5# Session Continuity Templates
6 
7## Welcome Back Prompt Template
8When a user returns to continue work on an existing AI-DLC project, present this prompt:
9 
10```markdown
11**Welcome back! I can see you have an existing AI-DLC project in progress.**
12 
13Based on your aidlc-state.md, here's your current status:
14- **Project**: [project-name]
15- **Current Phase**: [INCEPTION/CONSTRUCTION/OPERATIONS]
16- **Current Stage**: [Stage Name]
17- **Last Completed**: [Last completed step]
18- **Next Step**: [Next step to work on]
19 
20**What would you like to work on today?**
21 
22A) Continue where you left off ([Next step description])
23B) Review a previous stage ([Show available stages])
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25[Answer]: 
26```
27 
28## MANDATORY: Session Continuity Instructions
291. **Always read aidlc-state.md first** when detecting existing project
302. **Parse current status** from the workflow file to populate the prompt
313. **MANDATORY: Load Previous Stage Artifacts** - Before resuming any stage, automatically read all relevant artifacts from previous stages:
32   - **Reverse Engineering**: Read architecture.md, code-structure.md, api-documentation.md
33   - **Requirements Analysis**: Read requirements.md, requirement-verification-questions.md
34   - **User Stories**: Read stories.md, personas.md, story-generation-plan.md
35   - **Application Design**: Read application-design artifacts (components.md, component-methods.md, services.md)
36   - **Design (Units)**: Read unit-of-work.md, unit-of-work-dependency.md, unit-of-work-story-map.md
37   - **Per-Unit Design**: Read functional-design.md, nfr-requirements.md, nfr-design.md, infrastructure-design.md
38   - **Code Stages**: Read all code files, plans, AND all previous artifacts
394. **Smart Context Loading by Stage**:
40   - **Early Stages (Workspace Detection, Reverse Engineering)**: Load workspace analysis
41   - **Requirements/Stories**: Load reverse engineering + requirements artifacts
42   - **Design Stages**: Load requirements + stories + architecture + design artifacts
43   - **Code Stages**: Load ALL artifacts + existing code files
445. **Adapt options** based on architectural choice and current phase
456. **Show specific next steps** rather than generic descriptions
467. **Log the continuity prompt** in audit.md with timestamp
478. **Context Summary**: After loading artifacts, provide brief summary of what was loaded for user awareness
489. **Asking questions**: ALWAYS ask clarification or user feedback questions by placing them in .md files. DO NOT place the multiple-choice questions in-line in the chat session.
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50## Error Handling
51If artifacts are missing or corrupted during session resumption, see [error-handling.md](error-handling.md) for guidance on recovery procedures.
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