# Unit of Work Plan — atheos-blog-lxc

**Stage**: INCEPTION — Units Generation (Part 1: Planning)
**Date**: 2026-09-29 · **Depth**: minimal

## Rationale

The unit boundaries were already surfaced in the approved execution plan and the operator approved
them ("continue looks good"). The decomposition is not genuinely in question — it follows the
component dependency chain directly. So this plan carries **no open questions**; asking any would be
ceremony. It is recorded here so the generation step is traceable rather than improvised.

## Decomposition principle

Units follow the **topological order of the dependency graph** — each unit ends in a state you can
verify, and no unit depends on a later one. This matters because a failure in U3 (the genuinely
uncertain one, Atheos-on-Alpine) must not leave U1/U2 work wasted or unverifiable.

## Plan

- [ ] Generate `unit-of-work.md` — unit definitions + responsibilities
- [ ] Generate `unit-of-work-dependency.md` — dependency matrix + build order
- [ ] Generate `requirement-to-unit-map.md` — **substitutes `unit-of-work-story-map.md`** (stories were skipped); every FR/NFR/AC assigned to exactly one unit
- [ ] Validate unit boundaries and dependencies
- [ ] Verify no requirement is unassigned

## Approval

Units were presented in the approved execution plan; the operator's "continue looks good" covers
this decomposition. No blocking questions.

`[Answer]:` *(leave blank — approval recorded from the execution-plan gate)*