Backlog Readiness Refinement Agent

Refinement meetings stall when stories arrive half written, and the team spends the hour asking basic questions. Two days before refinement, this agent pulls the top backlog items for the next two sprints and checks each one against the team's Definition of Ready: user value stated, testable acceptance criteria, a size estimate, design attached when needed, and dependencies named. An item is ready only when every rule passes. For each gap it drafts a question for the story owner, and for items over the split limit it drafts a split suggestion. Nothing is posted until the Scrum Master approves. After owners update their items, the agent checks them again. If there are still not enough ready items to fill two sprints, it lists the remaining gaps and drafts follow-up questions for the session itself. Edge case: criteria like 'works well' are treated as not testable.