constitution-generator

A project constitution defines core engineering principles and governance standards to guide team decisions. It captures project nature, technical profile, risk operations, and quality expectations, translating them into actionable principles that bootstrap governance for new projects.

Bootstrapping governance starts with structured discovery across four rounds covering project nature, technical profile, risk and operations, and quality expectations. The process maps your project characteristics to matched principles and outputs a ready-to-use constitution input.

To generate a constitution input, the skill guides you through structured discovery questions about your project profile. It then translates your answers into a matched set of engineering principles, producing a Markdown-ready input formatted for the speckit constitution command.

No, you do not need an existing project. The constitution generator is designed for starting new projects, bootstrapping governance, and defining engineering standards early. It captures essential context through structured discovery to establish foundational principles.

The best way is to run a structured discovery workflow that captures technical profile, risk, and quality expectations. This translates your team's project characteristics into actionable engineering principles, outputting a constitution input that guides continuous delivery and governance.

The generated constitution is limited to the context you provide during the four discovery rounds. It produces a principle set and Markdown input for governance, but the effectiveness depends on accurately representing your project nature, technical profile, risk operations, and quality expectations.