OutlineDriven Finish it now
Contract
| Field | Bound contract |
|---|---|
| Trigger | The user says ship it now, no phases, or finish it now, or the work would otherwise be split into phases, staged rollouts, follow-up PRs, or TODO-later remainders. |
| Authority | Reversible local: write only the named local implementation artifacts that the ask puts in scope. Rollback is reverting this single change. |
| Side effect | All in-scope implementation paths are written in one change. The change produces no TODO, stub, placeholder, NotImplemented, or follow-up remainder. |
| Done | Every in-scope path is implemented in one change, and anything dropped is named in one line with its reason. |
Inputs
- The ask (required): the work to ship, including every path it puts in scope.
- A phased skill or plan in play (optional): when present, its steps are collapsed into this single pass rather than executed across phases.
Procedure
- Execute the whole ask in one pass. No phase 1 and phase 2, no staged rollout, and no follow-up PR for work already in scope. Done when: the whole ask is executed in one pass.
- Finish every opened path. Write the real implementation instead of leaving a TODO, stub, placeholder, or raised NotImplemented. Done when: every opened path has a real implementation.
- When a phased skill or plan is in play, collapse it to one pass: run its steps back to back in this change and ship the result. While this posture is active it takes precedence over phase-based execution. Done when: any phased plan is collapsed into this change.
- When the ask genuinely exceeds one pass, cut scope instead of deferring it. Name what was cut and why; never hand back a remainder. Done when: scope that cannot fit is cut and named rather than deferred.
- Report only what shipped. Done names the code that is in the tree right now. Done when: the report names only code present in the tree.
Failure and recovery
- Unshipped remainder: a TODO, stub, placeholder, NotImplemented, or phase-2/later/follow-up label is unshipped work. Recover by writing the real implementation; if that is genuinely impossible in one pass, cut scope out loud in one line rather than carry pending work.
- Scope exceeds one pass: cut scope, name what was cut and why in one line, and ship the reduced scope. Never return a deferred remainder or pretend the done predicate holds.
- Partial result: nothing is labeled done until every in-scope path is implemented. A partial change is not done and is not reported as done.
Output
The complete change with every in-scope path implemented, plus one line naming anything cut and why if scope was reduced.