Intent-to-Delivery Lifecycle
Turn the factory's memorable value stream into precise records, decisions, controls, and evidence.
A focused view of boundaries, contracts, state, authority, failure paths, and tradeoffs drawn from this chapter.
Reconstruct and defend this chapter’s architecture.
Reconstruct the architecture, name each boundary, and defend the tradeoffs.
Open the source exercise
Draw the mnemonic first. Then redraw it as the operational lifecycle with skills inside execution and improvement after observed outcomes. For every transition, name the authoritative record, actor, policy decision, evidence, failure state, retry rule, and human authority.
4. Tradeoffs and alternatives
A single linear slogan is easy to communicate but hides feedback and concurrency. A complete state machine is precise but too complex as an entry point. Use both: the mnemonic for orientation and the lifecycle contract for design and operations.
Atomic tools increase composability but can increase the number of policy decisions and calls. Domain tools reduce cost and error for mature workflows but should not hide authority or combine implementation, approval, and certification. Add specialization only after repeated evidence shows the primitive path is too costly or inconsistent.
Long-running agent loops improve adaptability while increasing latency, cost, and failure surface. For known deterministic transformations, conventional software is simpler and more reliable.
5. Current Mission Control Implementation
The repository's Mission Control case studies show records and mechanisms for Missions, versioned Plans, WorkOrders, Tasks, Attempts, agent/context bindings, execution manifests, policy, approvals, evidence, pull requests, and emerging release controls. The current assessment also shows exact model-route, harness, sandbox, worker, and Factory Version admission. It preserves an important limitation: qualified implementation and retained local composition do not prove that production is configured or that the complete browser-originated intent-to-production outcome path has run successfully.
Use the current capability, workflow, and admission map, the historical implementation maturity map, and the verification-first case study for versioned boundaries. Do not infer current product capability from this lifecycle target model.
Review this chapter.
Challenge a claim, boundary, missing failure mode, unclear term, or unsupported evidence statement.
- Claim
- Boundary
- Failure
- Evidence