Andrew Ridgway bec1eaac87
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first pass at the newspaper builder
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name, depth, keywords, description, skeleton, review_cap, change_control
name depth keywords description skeleton review_cap change_control
poc Minimal
proof of concept
prototype
poc
spike
Prove feasibility fast on advisory relaxed

poc scope

Minimal depth aimed at proving feasibility fast. Almost everything except the bare path to running code is skipped: capture the intent, reverse- engineer any existing code, pull the requirements, then generate and test. No design ceremony, no operations, no delivery planning.

Change Control defaults to relaxed: an input that changes after approval is recorded and announced in one line, and the spike keeps moving.

Why these stages, why skip those

A proof of concept answers one question — "can this work?" — so it keeps only the stages that get to an answer: intent-capture, reverse-engineering, requirements-analysis, code-generation, build-and-test. The whole point is to discard the rest (domain-design, units-generation, nfr work, the operation phase) because a spike is throwaway. If the answer is yes, re-scope to feature/mvp and run the full arc on the real build.

Membership

Keyword triggers: proof of concept, prototype, poc, spike. Initialization plus the thin feasibility path execute; everything else is SKIP.