Hands off unfinished work with a closed-loop briefing of state, changed conditions, remaining scope, authority limits, and open evidence. Use when AI-agent, reviewer, verifier, releaser, or resumed-thread work transfers to a new owner. Do not use when the same owner continues uninterrupted with full context.
Turns incidents, near misses, bad handoffs, review surprises, escaped bugs, and signals from real use into lasting fixes to your safeguards. Use after something went wrong or nearly did and a future safeguard should change. Do not use during a live incident, which comes first, or to blame someone.
Designs a clean folder and file layout as real architecture, building it from a work breakdown or an existing tree, grouping by what changes together and what happens to it, with platform-safe sortable names and a short note per folder. Use when laying out a repo or agent workspace, deciding where a file belongs, or…
Builds claim-to-evidence trace rows with statuses, gaps, tests, evals, reviews, and narrower non-claims. Use when a packet asserts something a reviewer must trust. Do not use to make the final ship decision, judge public legal wording, or invent evidence that does not exist.
Challenges the assumptions behind a change before an agent builds, merges, or releases, and names the one fact that would change the decision. Use when a request, plan, diff, dependency, agent action, public claim, or release is vague, high-stakes, or easy to talk yourself into. Do not use for a tiny, obvious…
Picks Quick, Standard, or a stronger human-reviewed mode based on consequence, how easy it is to undo, and how much is unknown. Use when you start a change to code, docs, dependencies, AI power, releases, or public claims and the right level of care is unclear. Do not use for a tiny easy-to-undo edit with obvious…
Records the version everyone agreed is correct, the evidence behind it, and what would make that record out of date. Use when a standard change ships, when prompts, models, tools, dependencies, docs, or release items are accepted, or when a lesson forces a re-record. Do not use for a tiny local edit with nothing to…
Captures an agent run's tool calls, decision points, inputs, outputs, token use, and approval steps as a clear, repeatable record linked into the packet trace and verification record. Use when how the agent got there matters for debugging, auditing, cost review, or defending a release decision. Do not use for a…
Routes a defect found in a shared or supplied artifact (a shared prompt, skill, dependency, model, eval, or template) to the downstream teams, agents, and releases that depend on it, not just a local fix. Use when a discovered defect affects others who consume the same artifact. Do not use for a defect local to your…
Runs a live incident the stabilize-first way — name a commander, separate facts from hypotheses, prefer reversible actions, communicate on a cadence, and drive corrective actions to closure. Use when production is broken, data is at risk, or an agent action caused harm. Do not use for routine non-incident work, or as…
Reviews a diff or module for slipping standards, favoring deletion over rearranging, and ends in one honest verdict. Use when a change risks oversized files, needless layers, feature logic leaking into shared code, or clever indirection. Do not use for a trivial obvious edit, or for a check that is only about whether…
Tests the current work against a written, lasting mission anchor and forces one choice, re-anchor, escalate, or stop. Use when an agent keeps finishing tasks but the work drifts from the goal, scope creeps, the same action repeats in a loop, or standards slip one small step at a time. Do not use for a tiny edit with…