How the review system works

Follow one change from an idea to verified work, then into operational learning.

Seven articles for engineering leads: briefs, agent review, CI, independent verification and measurement.

TL;DR

  • Define what a change must preserve before assigning it. Carry that contract through review, CI and independent checks after merge.
  • Follow one ledger-reading improvement through all seven parts, or choose the question you need from the reading list.
  • Keep component performance separate from user benefit. Continuing operational assessment, performance review and architecture review are planned additions.
Start with the overview

Read the series

Follow the seven parts in order, or open the question you are working on.

  1. Review starts in the brief

    How an idea becomes a stream and a brief, then moves through implementation, review and independent verification.

    Read part 1
  2. Writing briefs agents can execute

    Find the affected consumers, preserve their behavior and write acceptance checks that can reject a plausible wrong result.

    Read part 2
  3. Four questions for the review agent

    What correctness and security review ask, and how the planned performance and architecture reviews would extend them.

    Read part 3
  4. What CI can prove

    How CI checks behavior, how muhar tests the tests, and where quality history, ratchets and publication checks fit.

    Read part 4
  5. Merged is not verified

    What a separate verifier checks on merged main, how evidence is recorded and what dependencies require.

    Read part 5
  6. Learning after delivery

    Keep user journeys and the review method under examination. Learn from other systems, test refinements and return justified improvements as bounded work.

    Read part 6
  7. Measuring agent delivery

    Choose useful measures for waiting, review quality, accepted-result cost and the effect on users.

    Read part 7

The review system at a glance

An idea becomes a stream and brief. A worker supplies a candidate to agent review and CI; findings return for repair. A human merges the reviewed candidate, then a separate verifier checks merged main. Required evidence determines which dependent work can start.

*Performance and architecture reviews are planned.

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