Entry gate
Design’s exit gate, intact: a red eval on record, a draft bill of materials, projected cost within target, and — for agents — the soul and contract documents.Standard work
Composition from standard parts: context files from templates, skills from the registry, tools from the toolroom, model bindings per the tiering table. One unit at a time — small batches until the process is proven — in an isolated workspace, by an assembly agent working from standardized work. The rule that makes parts interchangeable at all: never hand-fit, always fix the die. A part that needs hand-fitting — a skill that only works with edits, a template that gets locally forked — is a defective part, and the defect report goes upstream to the parts process, not patched inline. Conventions are enforced during the build, not reviewed in afterward; the assembler follows the standard work or stops.Exit gate
One check, absolute: the unit assembles clean from parts plus BOM with zero manual intervention. Any manual touch is logged as a parts defect.Escalation
An assembler that stops on a confusing instruction is doing its job. Block before guess: ambiguity in the design goes back to Design; a part that will not compose without modification files a defect against the part and halts this unit until the die is fixed. Nothing is quietly patched to keep the line moving — quiet patches are how defective dies survive.Enforcement
No compilation-table row lands at this station; its gate is structural. The zero-manual-intervention rule is self-enforcing in kind: either the unit assembles from BOM alone or it does not, and the assembly log is the evidence. Every manual touch recorded there is an automatic defect report upstream.Self-audit
| Claim | Source |
|---|---|
| Assembly is the cheap station; 49 seconds, $0.37 | docs/factory-design.md:24, 113 |
| Composition from standard parts; one unit at a time; isolated workspace; standardized work | docs/factory-design.md:113 |
| Never hand-fit, always fix the die; hand-fitting means a defective part; report goes upstream | docs/factory-design.md:115 |
| Exit gate: assembles clean with zero manual intervention; manual touch = parts defect | docs/factory-design.md:117 |
| Block before guess | docs/factory-design.md:184 |