sentinel-methodology

What problem does it solve?

Sentinel Methodology provides a structured, repeatable framework to prevent context pollution, maintain a living knowledge vault, ensure session continuity, and enforce gate-based verification across debugging, investigations, and multi-step tasks.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Investigation Journal Protocol: creates and manages step-by-step problem narratives to capture hypotheses, experiments, and outcomes.
• Self-Healing Vault Loop: maintains vault health by tracking gotchas, decisions, investigations, and completed work with staleness checks.
• Session Continuity & Quality Gates: preserves context between sessions and validates changes via a seven-gate quality assurance workflow.
• Vault Maintenance & Governance: ensures retroactive consistency, ADRs, and proper documentation of decisions and investigations.
• Use Case: debugging a complex bug across multiple sessions, recovering a crashed session, or performing pre-merge quality verification.

Quick Start

Launch Sentinel Methodology at the start of a debugging session to enforce journals, vault hygiene, and gate-based verification.