Checklists

Steal these. Put them in your pack. Modify the tests.

Mode picker (30 seconds)

• Question vs job?
• Will we do this again? → workflow
• Side effects / tools / money? → agent with fence or stay draft
• Can I inspect the result in five minutes? If no, split the job

Full: chat vs workflow vs agent.

Pack

• Goal in one paragraph
• Must / must-not
• Sources attached
• One example of good
• Non-goals
• Secrets stripped
• Dated folder

Spec

• Deliverable named
• Process steps
• Acceptance tests that can fail
• Stop / retry budget
• Out of scope

Loop

• Plan approved
• Thin slice
• Critique against tests (not “looks good”)
• Retry budget honored
• Trace kept if tools ran

Promotion to autonomy

• Tests exist
• Trace visible
• Draft/sandbox path
• Spend/publish/delete gated
• Owner named
• Rollback known

What not to automate.