Governance & Doctrine
Set up a project charter, synthesize doctrine, manage the glossary, and run governed missions.
- How to Set Up Project Governance — The complete interview-to-generation flow for creating, validating, and activating your Spec Kitty project charter.
- How to Initialize a Project and Author Its Charter — What
spec-kitty initsets up, and how you author your project charter afterward with the charter commands. - How to Synthesize and Maintain Doctrine — Run charter synthesize and charter resynthesize, validate the bundle, check provenance, and recover from stale state.
- How to Create an Org Charter Pack — Author, validate, assemble, publish, and consume a spec-kitty org Charter Pack.
- How to Run a Governed Mission — Run spec-kitty next with Charter context injection, read JSON output, handle composed steps and blocked decisions.
- How to Manage the Glossary — Curate canonical terminology, resolve conflicts, and configure strictness enforcement.
- Troubleshooting Charter Failures — Diagnose and fix stale bundle, missing doctrine, compact-context, retrospective gate, and synthesizer rejection failures.
- Extend your charter for an unsupported language — Add tech-specific guidelines to your local charter when Spec Kitty has no specialist guidance for your project's language.
- How to Use Retrospective Learning — Understand the four retrospective commands, configure policy, author records on demand, backfill historical missions, and apply proposals to governance.