diff --git a/src/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/sprint-planning/instructions.md b/src/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/sprint-planning/workflow.md
similarity index 80%
rename from src/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/sprint-planning/instructions.md
rename to src/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/sprint-planning/workflow.md
index 04492088b..5181061e6 100644
--- a/src/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/sprint-planning/instructions.md
+++ b/src/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/sprint-planning/workflow.md
@@ -1,9 +1,57 @@
-# Sprint Planning - Sprint Status Generator
+---
+name: sprint-planning
+description: 'Generate sprint status tracking from epics. Use when the user says "run sprint planning" or "generate sprint plan"'
+---
 
-<critical>The workflow execution engine is governed by: {project-root}/_bmad/core/tasks/workflow.xml</critical>
-<critical>You MUST have already loaded and processed: {project-root}/_bmad/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/sprint-planning/workflow.yaml</critical>
+# Sprint Planning Workflow
 
-## 📚 Document Discovery - Full Epic Loading
+**Goal:** Generate sprint status tracking from epics, detecting current story statuses and building a complete sprint-status.yaml file.
+
+**Your Role:** You are a Scrum Master generating and maintaining sprint tracking. Parse epic files, detect story statuses, and produce a structured sprint-status.yaml.
+
+---
+
+## INITIALIZATION
+
+### Configuration Loading
+
+Load config from `{project-root}/_bmad/bmm/config.yaml` and resolve:
+
+- `project_name`, `user_name`
+- `communication_language`, `document_output_language`
+- `implementation_artifacts`
+- `planning_artifacts`
+- `date` as system-generated current datetime
+- YOU MUST ALWAYS SPEAK OUTPUT in your Agent communication style with the config `{communication_language}`
+
+### Paths
+
+- `installed_path` = `{project-root}/_bmad/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/sprint-planning`
+- `template` = `{installed_path}/sprint-status-template.yaml`
+- `checklist` = `{installed_path}/checklist.md`
+- `tracking_system` = `file-system`
+- `project_key` = `NOKEY`
+- `story_location` = `{implementation_artifacts}`
+- `story_location_absolute` = `{implementation_artifacts}`
+- `epics_location` = `{planning_artifacts}`
+- `epics_pattern` = `epic*.md`
+- `status_file` = `{implementation_artifacts}/sprint-status.yaml`
+
+### Input Files
+
+| Input | Path | Load Strategy |
+|-------|------|---------------|
+| Epics | `{planning_artifacts}/*epic*.md` (whole) or `{planning_artifacts}/*epic*/*.md` (sharded) | FULL_LOAD |
+
+### Context
+
+- `project_context` = `**/project-context.md` (load if exists)
+
+---
+
+## EXECUTION
+
+### Document Discovery - Full Epic Loading
 
 **Strategy**: Sprint planning needs ALL epics and stories to build complete status tracking.
 
@@ -44,11 +92,6 @@
 <action>Build complete inventory of all epics and stories from all epic files</action>
 </step>
 
-  <step n="0.5" goal="Discover and load project documents">
-    <invoke-protocol name="discover_inputs" />
-    <note>After discovery, these content variables are available: {epics_content} (all epics loaded - uses FULL_LOAD strategy)</note>
-  </step>
-
 <step n="2" goal="Build sprint status structure">
 <action>For each epic found, create entries in this order:</action>
 
diff --git a/src/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/sprint-planning/workflow.yaml b/src/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/sprint-planning/workflow.yaml
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index 0f1b73789..000000000
--- a/src/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/sprint-planning/workflow.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-name: sprint-planning
-description: 'Generate sprint status tracking from epics. Use when the user says "run sprint planning" or "generate sprint plan"'
-author: "BMad"
-
-# Critical variables from config
-config_source: "{project-root}/_bmad/bmm/config.yaml"
-user_name: "{config_source}:user_name"
-communication_language: "{config_source}:communication_language"
-date: system-generated
-implementation_artifacts: "{config_source}:implementation_artifacts"
-planning_artifacts: "{config_source}:planning_artifacts"
-
-# Workflow components
-installed_path: "{project-root}/_bmad/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/sprint-planning"
-instructions: "{installed_path}/instructions.md"
-template: "{installed_path}/sprint-status-template.yaml"
-validation: "{installed_path}/checklist.md"
-
-# Variables and inputs
-project_context: "**/project-context.md"
-project_name: "{config_source}:project_name"
-
-# Tracking system configuration
-tracking_system: "file-system" # Options: file-system, Future will support other options from config of mcp such as jira, linear, trello
-project_key: "NOKEY" # Placeholder for tracker integrations; file-system uses a no-op key
-story_location: "{implementation_artifacts}" # Relative path for file-system, Future will support URL for Jira/Linear/Trello
-story_location_absolute: "{implementation_artifacts}" # Absolute path for file operations
-
-# Source files (file-system only)
-epics_location: "{planning_artifacts}" # Directory containing epic*.md files
-epics_pattern: "epic*.md" # Pattern to find epic files
-
-# Output configuration
-status_file: "{implementation_artifacts}/sprint-status.yaml"
-
-# Smart input file references - handles both whole docs and sharded docs
-# Priority: Whole document first, then sharded version
-# Strategy: FULL LOAD - sprint planning needs ALL epics to build complete status
-input_file_patterns:
-  epics:
-    description: "All epics with user stories"
-    whole: "{planning_artifacts}/*epic*.md"
-    sharded: "{planning_artifacts}/*epic*/*.md"
-    load_strategy: "FULL_LOAD"
-
-# Output configuration
-default_output_file: "{status_file}"