Five commitments that compound forward and recover backward. Legitimate AI-built artifacts work for more than one user, scale without ad-hoc maintenance, and survive the second builder. The doctrine is the discipline of going in.
We only grade what we can ground in objective signal. The boundary between what's measured and what's judged is documented in the work itself, not assumed.
The scaffold is the work. Every surface produces builder-visible structure — checklist, claims map, decisions log — that the builder can read while the build is happening.
We measure honestly or we don't measure. Pass-rate as distribution, not headline. Coverage measured, not declared. Cost as part of the reliability number, not a footnote.
The audit surface is built into the build, not bolted onto the result. Sandbagging has nowhere to hide by design.
Coordination is engineered. Document the seams — ask-vs-act calibration, deferrals, handoffs, where the seams live. Emergent coherence isn't coherence; it's luck.
We only grade what we can ground in objective signal. The boundary between what's measured and what's judged is documented in the work itself, not assumed.
The scaffold is the work. Every surface produces builder-visible structure — checklist, claims map, decisions log — that the builder can read while the build is happening.
We measure honestly or we don't measure. Pass-rate as distribution, not headline. Coverage measured, not declared. Cost as part of the reliability number, not a footnote.
The audit surface is built into the build, not bolted onto the result. Sandbagging has nowhere to hide by design.
Coordination is engineered. Document the seams — ask-vs-act calibration, deferrals, handoffs, where the seams live. Emergent coherence isn't coherence; it's luck.
The 626 plugin family that produces work under this doctrine — two foundations beneath five process pillars, distributed through one shared marketplace.
Maps the spec before the build.
Argument scaffold for any claim.
Round out documentation an agent read first.
Coverage measured, not declared.
Audit surface, built in.
Claims, evidence, and the boundary between them — the substrate every pillar reads from.
The structural CLAUDE.md every plugin writes against. Shared scaffold, shared seams.