specdo-lifecycle

A canonical lifecycle contract standardizes AI-driven changes from brainstorming to archive by providing wrapper routing, evidence gates, and machine-readable handoff schemas to ensure traceable, verifiable artifacts. It unifies task execution and verification across the entire pipeline.

Evidence gates are verification checkpoints within the lifecycle contract that ensure each stage produces machine-verifiable artifacts before handoff. They enforce clear acceptance criteria for delta specs, guaranteeing traceable and consistent outputs across the workflow.

You standardize outputs by sharing a canonical lifecycle contract across skills to route outputs and verification through the pipeline. This contract provides wrapper routing rules and reference artifacts to unify task execution and artifact handoffs.

Yes, the lifecycle contract requires careful integration with scripts, reference materials, and assets as part of the skill bundle. This integration ensures wrapper routing and evidence gates function correctly to produce verifiable changes.

You need a machine-readable workflow contract when proposing delta specs to guarantee every stage defines clear acceptance criteria and produces verifiable artifacts. This ensures traceable changes from brainstorming to archive across the engineering lifecycle.

The best way to automate verification and handoffs is implementing a canonical lifecycle contract with wrapper routing and evidence gates. This approach provides machine-readable schemas that standardize artifact references and ensure traceable changes across all stages.