Reaches GitHub
publish the branch
Ever had a branch pushed straight to main by mistake?
Pushing local commits up to GitHub, where the rest of the mechanism can finally see them.
Performed by: Developer
create a task issue
Ever opened a ticket that turned out to have zero plan behind it?
Opening the Issue that a task exists as — its scope, its reasoning and its dependencies, written down before anyone starts.
Performed by: Planner
open a pull request
Ever gotten a PR with no explanation of what it does or why?
Proposing finished work for review, carrying the account of what changed and which intent it came from.
Performed by: Developer
revise a pull request
Ever seen a PR quietly gutted after it already passed review?
Editing a pull request after it exists — its code, its title or its description, whether or not review already happened.
Performed by: Developer, Planner
grant a waiver
Ever had someone bypass a rule just by typing the right words?
Deliberately excusing a rule for one case — an authority the mechanism grants to a person, never to an agent.
Performed by: Principal
Stays local
commit the work
Ever had a commit land that plain doesn't build?
Recording a change locally — the last moment it costs nothing to catch a mistake.
Performed by: Developer
produce the verdict
Ever gotten a review that was really just a rubber stamp?
Judging finished work against the brief it came from, and saying plainly whether it passes.
Performed by: Reviewer, Security Reviewer
post the provenance comment
Ever needed to know exactly what shipped, and why, six months later?
Writing the permanent record of a merged task — what shipped, from what intent, checked by whom.
Performed by: Archivist
write the retrospective
Ever finished a big chunk of work with nobody writing down what was learned?
Closing out a finished phase of work by recording what actually happened and what it taught.
Performed by: Tranche Archivist
create the milestone
Ever had a Milestone whose title quietly became the only place a version lived?
Declaring a product goal as a Milestone — free-text title, prose goal, an optional Release: field as the version's sole authority, and an optional list of which tranches serve it.
Performed by: Architect