Where it lives
The factory’s standard work is the production-line document: seven stations, their outputs, and the principles that bind them — pull don’t push, stop the line, small batches, every unit inherits the base protocol. Station-by-station operational detail lives in the station pages; the standard-work document is the law those pages tour.The standard is germline
The standard work shapes every future unit, which makes it germline under Thesis 5 — and germline changes get the strictest control in the plant. Row 13 of the compilation table lands here:- Machine-readable manifest. The list of germline paths is not folklore; it lives in a single machine-readable manifest that both humans and gates consult.
- Protected change path. Germline files change by PR only, with required review and branch protection.
- Changelog required by lint.
germline/check-changelog.pyfails any change to a germline path that does not add a dated changelog entry in the same diff — reading the manifest at both ends of the range so a change cannot ungate itself, and failing closed when it cannot determine. The production line’s own history is entry-by-entry visible at the bottom of the document, as the design demanded. - Fixture evals on PR. Germline changes re-run evals against fixture units before merge, because a germline defect is congenital.
How the standard changes
Anyone on the line — human or agent — proposes a change the same way: a PR against the standard, carrying its changelog entry, passing the gate. The main feeder is the retro: every unit’s retrospective ends with a mandatory section, what changed in the standard work, because a retro that changes nothing is a diary entry. Lessons that recur across runs graduate into the standard by the same germline path (Station 6’s graduation rule).Unfinished until checkable
In this factory a standard that is not machine-checkable is treated as unfinished. Rules as scripts reach roughly 100 percent compliance; rules as documentation, about 48 — so each standard is written with its compiled form in view: the prose states the law, the gate makes it physics. A standard that exists only as prose is a standard still in compilation.Self-audit
| Claim | Source |
|---|---|
| Standardized work as assembly discipline; principles (pull, stop the line, small batches, base protocol) | workflows/production-line.md:88–93 |
| Standard work is germline; strictest controls: PR-only, sign-off, changelog, fixture evals | docs/factory-design.md:64 |
| Row 13: CODEOWNERS/branch protection, changelog required by lint, fixture evals | docs/factory-design.md:206 |
| Changelog gate mechanics: manifest at both ends, fail closed | germline/check-changelog.py (module docstring) |
| Production line changelog exists and is enforced | workflows/production-line.md:95–99 |
| Mandatory retro section; a retro that changes nothing is a diary entry | docs/factory-design.md:237 |
| Scripts ~100% vs docs ~48% | docs/factory-design.md:52 |