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02 · The workflow layer

Habitat

The workflow layer for an AI-first team. One surface where your engineers and your agents do the same work, planned, built, verified, and shipped against one source of truth, not the five tools that lose the thread.

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Layer
Workflow, the middle of the stack
Built on
Canon, one shared corpus
Spans
Discovery to production
Status
Ships with the engagement

The problem it removes

The spec, the work, and the proof, in five different tools.

The plan is in a spreadsheet. The requirement is in a doc. The tickets are in a tracker. The conversation is in chat. The evidence is in a folder, if it was kept at all. Each tool is fine on its own. What breaks is the thread between them: the line from a decision, to the work that delivered it, to the proof it shipped snaps at every handoff. Jira-shaped tooling fragments the job, and agents inherit that fracture hardest. When a person or an agent picks up a task, half the context is already somewhere else.

See it work

Watch one ticket carry its whole record, spec to ship.

Live preview

The spec comes from Canon, the code and the proof attach as the work moves, and the release closes it out: one ticket holding its whole record. In the example run, PRD-014 went from spec to shipped in a four-day cycle, every check signed.

Why it's different

One surface for people and agents alike.

Habitat reads from Canon. A work item starts from the PRD, the decisions, and the standards already settled in the corpus, so the spec is not retyped and the context is not re-gathered, whether a person or an agent picks it up.

That is the part a tracker cannot copy. Assign a ticket to an Olympus agent and its run lands on the same board a person's would, grounded in the same Canon context and returned through the same verification gate. The bench files in here too: Peril routes feedback into a ticket, Ally files an accessibility finding. One surface, so every loop closes in the same place.

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What it does

Run the work, prove it, keep the record straight.

  1. 01

    Plan & build

    Runs the work you already run

    Roadmap, cycles, sprints, and real capacity per person. Then every task, bug, epic, and PRD on a single board, moving ready → in progress → verification → done. Each change in state is kept, so a work item's history is never reconstructed from memory.

  2. 02

    Verify

    Won't let it ship unproven

    A verification gate drawn from the PRD itself. Each item carries its evidence, a test, a doc, a demo, a sign-off, before the work can close. Configure it to block the merge outright, or to flag the gap and let it pass. It is the same gate an agent's run has to clear.

  3. 03

    Operate

    Keeps the delivery record straight

    Intentional debt, weekly priorities, the burn-up, and live metrics sit next to the work, not in a separate wiki. It is the operating picture of a release at a glance, legible to a new hire or an auditor. The durable decisions and specs live one layer down, in Canon.

The gate · evidence required on every close
The verification gate. A checklist drawn from the PRD, each item carrying the evidence that closed it, before the work is allowed to ship.

A closer look

The board, and the record it keeps.

The Habitat Build board: lanes for Ready for Dev, In Progress, Verification, and Done, filled with real work items, one of them owned by the agent Vulcan.
The Build board, live. Real work moving through ready, verification, and done, with Vulcan, an Olympus agent, holding a ticket alongside the team.
The Habitat Team Health dashboard: a score of 81 out of 100 over charts for dev cycle time, verification cycle time, verification fail rate, work in progress, and weekly throughput.
Team Health, computed from the board itself: cycle times, the verification fail rate, and throughput, each read against a target the whole team can see.

How it's organized

The layer, mapped.

01

Plan

Roadmap · cycles · sprints · capacity · PRDs

02

Build

Work board · epics and tasks · status history

03

Verify

Checklists · evidence · the sign-off gate

04

Operate

Governance · debt ledger · priorities · metrics

See it run your own workflow.

Thirty minutes with the people who build it: a working walkthrough and straight answers.

It ships with the engagement, tuned to your stack. The source is yours to keep. No per-seat metering.

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