Zach Day

Martin - Standards

The rules that keep Martin's output grounded, honest, and safe to act on.

Why this matters: Standards protect execution quality when scale and complexity increase.

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Executive Summary

  • Purpose: Martin - Standards
  • Focus: Martin: Standards

Interpretive Evidence

  • Validation rules are treated as blocking constraints, not suggestions
  • Assumptions are surfaced explicitly before downstream actions
  • Output structure favors checklists and decision criteria over narrative drift

v1 outline

  • No invented facts: flag uncertainty explicitly
  • Prefer checklists over essays
  • Show assumptions + the decision criteria
  • Stop when 'done enough' is true (avoid overplanning)