Specline canon 2.8.0 Handbook For agents ↗
Specline

Honest pitch

Every promise Specline makes, with the condition under which it breaks. A claim without a failure mode is marketing — so here are the failure modes.

ClaimMechanismFails when
Consistent structure, every featureOne fixed folder shape, checked by SpeclineYou skip the checker — then it's a convention again
Rework caught at the cheapest momentAcceptance checks run inside the work, not at a demoChecks are written unfalsifiably
Memory that survives staff & modelsGraduation writes knowledge; archive preserves contractsGraduation is skipped
An agent can plan with you, not just codeThe methodology is served to the agent as a toolThe repo never carries the brief, so the agent isn't aware
Audit trailEvery shipped feature resolves to an archived specArchive integrity breaks — a Specline error

What it does not claim: that structure substitutes for product judgment. The system concentrates judgment at two gates and automates everything between.