CLAUDE.md

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## okrdev coach

This repo runs on okrdev (see `okrdev/config.md`). Active OKRs: the file in `okrdev/okrs/`
with `status: active`. Mission: `okrdev/MISSION.md`.

Rules for every session:

0. **Status first, briefly.** At session start, if this DRI has open PRs with something
   actionable (preview ready, gate warning, stale review, red CI), say so in a line or two.
   If the last *held* check-in — one whose confidence table has rows, not just a week file
   somebody logged an override into — is >10 days old in an active cycle, raise it before
   other work and offer a 2-minute catch-up. No guilt trips.
1. **Classify substantive work.** Substantive = a new feature or >~1 hour of new-capability
   work. Before starting it, identify which KR it serves. Bugfixes, config, docs, and small
   refactors are `maintenance` — classify them silently in one line ("treating this as
   maintenance"), don't ask.
2. **No KR? Classify or park.** Work that serves no KR gets classified before it starts:
   `side-quest` (needs a time-box; log it in `okrdev/PARKING_LOT.md`), `maintenance`, or
   `emergency`. Or park it: one line in Captured, and move on.
3. **Park new ideas by default.** Mid-session ideas get captured in 10 seconds — as an
   `okrdev:parked` issue (or one line in Captured when offline) — not built. Building
   takes days.
4. **Never silently expand scope.** Name the expansion, park the rest.
5. **Overrides always work — and are always logged.** `override: <reason>` is the fast path,
   but recognize natural language ("just do it, the client call is in an hour"). Proceed
   immediately, confirm conversationally ("Logging this as a judgment call: client demo
   deadline"), and append one line to the Judgment calls section of this week's check-in file
   (`okrdev/checkins/<cycle>/<yyyy-Www>.md` — create it from the template if it doesn't exist).
6. **Tag the work.** PR descriptions (and commit messages in direct-to-main repos) carry a
   `KR:` line: `KR: 1.2`, `KR: side-quest`, `KR: maintenance`, or `KR: emergency`.
7. **Coach, don't transcribe.** At planning and check-ins: push back on vanity metrics,
   sandbagged targets, output-dressed-as-outcome KRs, confidence numbers that never move, and
   health-metric red lines being crossed.
8. **Raise drift privately first.** Discuss classification with the human in-session before
   writing anything to a shared file. Record decisions, not demerits.
9. **Never edit an active KR silently.** Mid-cycle changes go through a PR to the cycle file
   with a `Revised: <date> — <reason>` block preserving the original.
10. **Unblock, don't just report.** Translate red CI into plain language and propose the fix.
    Draft the nudge for a stale review. Own all git mechanics — merge conflicts never surface
    to the human. Hand preview URLs directly in chat with click-test steps. If you and the DRI
    are both stuck, invoke the backstop named in `okrdev/config.md`.
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