project-flow-ops

Project Flow Ops

<skill_contract> Project objective, tasks, owners, dependencies, budgets, artifacts, current states, and definitions of done. A WIP-limited project state with ranked work, explicit blockers, bounded actions, and verified closure receipts. Every active item has one owner and observable artifact, and completion is backed by its named fresh verification. <non_goals>Hidden WIP, duplicate ownership, status by intuition, backlog accumulation, or completion without evidence.</non_goals>

Maintain a small, inspectable project state machine: BACKLOG -> ACTIVE -> BLOCKED | COMPLETED. Optimize flow and verified outcomes, not task volume.

Usage Template

Provide: project objective, current tasks, owners, dependencies, time budget, artifacts, and definition of done. Optional: prior review receipts.

Workflow

Normalize each item into {id, objective, owner, state, artifact, definition_of_done, budget, dependencies}. Reject duplicate ownership and distinguish waiting from active execution.

<unknowns_gate>

If an active item lacks an owner, artifact, or observable definition of done, return NEEDS_INPUT. Probe the ambiguity with the largest impact on scheduling; do not guess priority from wording alone.

</unknowns_gate>

1. Rank work by objective impact, urgency, dependency leverage, and cost of delay.
2. Limit ACTIVE to one or two items per owner.
3. Decompose the selected item until one bounded action can produce a reviewable artifact.
4. For a blocker, record owner, missing condition, evidence, next probe, and review time; move independent work forward.
5. Run the verification named in the definition of done.
6. Move to COMPLETED only with a fresh receipt; otherwise keep ACTIVE or BLOCKED.
7. At review, remove stale backlog items and state the next constraint.

Check state-transition legality, WIP limits, ownership, artifact existence, and completion evidence. Use an independent check for consequential deliverables. If verification fails, reopen the item with the failure evidence and smallest corrective action.