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To create an auditable ledger for development project management, use a per-step workflow that captures plan, progress, decisions, and verification. This enforces per-step notes and ChangeLog templates, ensuring work is traceable and session state survives resets.

Tracking per-step decisions and progress in software engineering is best handled by a durable ledger that models work slices with a lifecycle loop. By using prime, ready, update, and close phases, you maintain an auditable trail of context and outcomes.

To record reproducible work slices and ephemeral experiments, use a workflow that models templates, instantiations, and experiments as distinct concepts. This captures plan and verification data, ensuring accountability and reproducibility over time.

A per-step workflow for maintaining an audit trail requires no external dependencies. It activates when a specific directory exists or when you run a dedicated workflow command to organize work into a durable, auditable ledger.

You need a durable ledger for project management when session state must survive resets and work requires traceability over time. It provides a canonical place to record context and outcomes, enforcing per-step notes for accountability.

To initialize a per-step workflow to organize development tasks, create the required directory or run the workflow command. This primes the context, allowing you to create your first bead with an initial plan and verification step.