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Playbook 04 — Build handoff

Trigger. A to-be design is settled and work is about to start in a code repository.

Who runs it. Whoever starts the build.

Steps

  1. Confirm the design is settled. Its frontmatter reads status: designed, and every claim in it traces to a record in 02-DECISIONS/. An open question in the text is a reason to run playbook 01, not to start building around it.
  2. Name the owner. Set code: in the design's frontmatter to the repositories from repos.md. If the repository does not exist yet, add it to repos.md in the same change.
  3. Check the as-is. Read the matching 03-DESIGN/00-as-is/ document. What is being replaced is stated there; if it is not, write it before changing it. Building against an undocumented as-is is how a shipped behaviour gets lost.
  4. Flip the status. status: in-progress, updated: today.
  5. Build in the code repository. hal-hq is not a code repository and never carries implementation.
  6. On completion, run the "when something ships" section of playbook 02.

Rules

  • Every merge is a human checkpoint, without exception.
  • Never open a pull request unprompted. A permissions list saying it is allowed is not a request.
  • Work in an isolated worktree, never a shared checkout. A failed cd in a shared checkout commits to the wrong branch, and the error scrolls past.