launch

Launch

Launch is the shipyard's delivery run: from mission brief to shipped, verified change. It stands on the verifiability boundary — agents continuously run everything repeatable and acceptable-by-evidence; humans decide what cannot be judged by the system or what fails expensively. The goal is not maximum automation — it is maximum delegation of verifiable work, so the human's time is spent only on the decisions only a human can make.

The verifiability test, applied to every step: if this is done wrong, can the system detect it? Can it redo or roll back automatically? Both yes → agent. No unique answer, system cannot judge, or expensive to get wrong → human.

Launch assumes the shipyard exists — and refuses to run if it does not. The yard gate is the first action of every invocation, before document-language resolution and before reading any supplied spec:

The audit report includes contractVersion: 2; missing required day-one faces use shipyard.yard.unlaid, and consumers must not interpret retired shipyard.surface.missing.* IDs as optional-surface failures.

• Run the full drydock --check audit — require the day-one base faces CLAUDE.md and GLOSSARY.md (a recognizable legacy glossary CONTEXT.md is accepted until drydock migrates it); beyond those, audit only adopted optional surfaces, so an absent optional surface is not a finding. The audit also checks a missing or invalid glossary documentLanguage, dead paths, glossary terms unused in code, and standards never referenced. This is the single criterion: Launch performs no separate facility inventory of its own.
• Actionable / high-confidence findings hard-block the run: list every such finding verbatim, point at /oh-my-copilot:drydock, state that the run never started and no artifacts were produced, and stop. Without an explicit override, treat any finding as blocking.
• Narrow override (explicit intent only): low-confidence findings, findings explicitly classified as false positives in the drydock report, or a scratch/throwaway repository explicitly declared by the user may be overridden only with deliberate, per-invocation user intent — the override must name the finding(s) or the throwaway scope and must never silently swallow a high-confidence actionable finding. No general bypass flag.
• Current audit contract (version 2): the mechanical subset of --check is executable — node scripts/shipyard-audit.mjs [repoRoot] emits a versioned JSON report and checks the required yard base faces, duplicate glossary authority, a missing/invalid documentLanguage tag, dead paths in CLAUDE.md, project-skill triggers, and intent statuses. Absence of an optional surface is not a finding; shipyard.surface.missing.* IDs are retired in contract version 2. Exit 0 = clean, 1 = high-confidence actionable findings present. The gate consumes that exit: 0 admits the run, 1 lists the findings verbatim and blocks. The heuristic classes (glossary terms unused in code, standards never referenced) stay in the drydock prose audit — low-confidence by construction, override rules unchanged.
• A clean audit (or an explicitly overridden low-confidence/false-positive/scratch scope) admits the run. The day-one faces are present; docs/adr/ and docs/business/ appear on first use — the slot is there when a decision settles, and if it is not, Launch triggers its first use (per drydock's deferred-surface table) and sediments into it immediately. Launch fills the paper trail as decisions settle and never creates a slot speculatively.
• The rules entry is CLAUDE.md — the shipyard map recognizes no substitute.