Workflow

How this all actually runs

Not a diagram of one project — the loop underneath all of them. Distilled from operating this lab, not written in advance of it.

01 / OBSERVE
Check the real state
"Synced" is not "deployed." A repo's name is not its content. Before trusting any claim — including an old plan's own reasoning — check the thing itself.
02 / RECORD
Make the answer outlive the conversation
A plan log entry, a dated doc note, a durable memory — not just a reply in a chat window. Institutional memory beats re-deriving the same conclusion twice.
03 / VERIFY
Diff before anything irreversible
Before merging repos, diff every file rather than trust a name. Before moving a workload, confirm a precedent is actually running, not just plausible.
04 / SHIP
Straight to production
No staging, no dev environment — push to main is the deploy. Safe because verification already happened upstream, not because caution was skipped.
05 / SYNC
Close the loop in the same pass
Update the docs a change touched, in the same sitting — not later. If a past decision's own reasoning turned out wrong, say so, out loud, dated.

The answer shouldn't only live in the conversation that produced it.