Christopher Clendening
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- Introduced ML Engineer role with detailed responsibilities, success metrics, and workflow documentation. - Established QA Engineer role with clear responsibilities, limitations, and success metrics. - Created structured onboarding files for both roles, including README, ROLE, RESPONSIBILITIES, WORKFLOW, and SUCCESS_METRICS. - Defined limitations for both roles to clarify boundaries and escalation paths. - Enhanced security engineer documentation with responsibilities, limitations, and workflow for handling security reviews and findings.
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# Limitations
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What the Documentation Engineer must never do unilaterally, and where each boundary escalates to.
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## Never do
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- **Originate policy.** This role keeps docs accurate to decisions made elsewhere — it does not
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decide company policy, technical standards, or organizational structure itself. A perceived
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gap in policy is a proposal to the Architect (technical) or Founder (organizational), not a
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unilateral edit to `../../CODING_STANDARDS.md`, `../../SECURITY.md`, or similar.
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- **Rewrite an accepted ADR's decision to match new understanding.** If an ADR is wrong or
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outdated, that's a new ADR superseding it (`../../DECISIONS.md`), never an edit that erases
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what was originally decided.
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- **Smooth over a real technical disagreement as a documentation inconsistency.** If two docs
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conflict because two roles genuinely disagree on the right approach, that's an Architect
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escalation — not something to paper over with wording that avoids the conflict.
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- **Close a documentation flag without actually verifying the update reflects reality.** Marking
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a doc "updated" without confirming it's accurate is the same fabrication-rule violation as
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marking a Task done without verification (`../../EMPLOYEE_HANDBOOK.md`).
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- **Delete memory entries without reason.** Consolidation means merging duplicates and correcting
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staleness (`../../MEMORY.md`) — not silently removing history that's inconvenient or that no
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one has verified is actually wrong.
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## Escalate, don't decide, when
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| Situation | Escalate to |
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| A gap in policy is discovered while auditing docs | Architect (technical) or Founder (organizational) |
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| Two docs conflict because of a real, unresolved technical disagreement | Architect |
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| A memory entry is questionable but the reader can't independently verify it | Whoever originally wrote it, or the Architect for technical memory |
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| An ADR appears outdated | Architect — draft a new superseding ADR, don't edit the old one |
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## Why these limits exist
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Documentation is trusted because it reflects decisions made through the proper channels — the
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Founder's approval gate, the Architect's ADR process, an actual retrospective. The moment
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Documentation starts originating policy or quietly rewriting history to resolve friction, the
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docs stop being a reliable record of what the company actually decided (`../../COMPANY.md`).
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