Tier Rename Decision

Tier Rename Decision

Date: 2026-03-21 Status: confirmed, not yet applied

Old tiers

• Hobby
• Professional
• Enterprise

New tiers

• Basic — context + guardrails (docs, standards, session management — no scaffolder CLI required)
• Project Management — with scaffolder (full sc create experience, CLI tools, templates)
• Plane Integrated — PM tools with Plane integration (bidirectional sync, work tracking, milestones)

What needs updating when applied

• templates/project-root/STANDARDS.md — all tier references
• templates/project-root/CLAUDE.md — if tier is mentioned
• src/ — sc create prompts, any tier logic in CLI
• README.md — workflow table, tier descriptions
• CHAT-REFERENCE.md — branch rules by scale tier section
• Plane integration docs (when they exist)

Notes

• Discussed previously but never documented
• Branch strategy per tier stays the same, just the names change
• Basic tier may not need staging branch at all
• Plane integration tier is new — defines when Plane sync is active vs optional