Provenance

Reviewing work with an explicit mandate to refute it, from a perspective that did not produce it.

Durable facts stored outside the context window and recalled into later sessions.

A packaged, invocable set of instructions that loads into an agent's context on demand.

A commit containing exactly one logical change, complete and independently sound.

Prose inside source code, useful only when it records a constraint the code cannot state.

A second person reading a change before it lands, and the practices that make it worth the time.

A recorded snapshot of a project with a message explaining it.

A lightweight convention giving commit messages a machine-readable type and scope.

Documentation that has drifted from the system it describes, and is now worse than none.

A hash over everything that determined a result, used to detect when the result has gone stale.

A function mapping arbitrary input to a fixed-size digest, used for identity, integrity, and addressing.

Using a language model to score another model's output against a rubric.

A causal explanation that was inferred rather than tested, and reads as more rigorous for being specific.

A proposal to merge a branch, carrying review, automated checks, and the discussion around it.

Capturing a real interaction once and replaying it deterministically in later test runs.

Collapsing a branch's commits into one before merging, trading granularity for a clean main history.

A system recording the history of a project's files, enabling branching, merging, and recovery.