Doctrine Packs

A doctrine pack is a bundle of related built-in doctrine artifacts (paradigm, tactics, styleguide, directive, template fragment, skill, and docs) that a project can activate as a unit through charter selection.

This page is specifically about built-in doctrine packs — the ones that ship with Spec Kitty itself (SPDD today). If you're looking to author and distribute your own pack across multiple projects, that's a different mechanism: see How to Create an Org Doctrine Pack.

Doctrine packs are opt-in. Projects that do not select a pack see no behavior change. Projects that do select a pack receive guidance scoped to the workflow action they are running.

Charter selection happens during the governance setup workflow. To verify which doctrine is active for the current project, run:

spec-kitty charter context --action specify --json

Optional doctrine packs

Pack Summary
SPDD and the REASONS Canvas Structured-Prompt-Driven Development with a seven-section change-intent canvas. For high-risk and multi-WP missions where a clear change boundary reduces drift. Code remains the source of truth for current behavior; the canvas records approved intent.

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