Christopher Clendening
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- Create SECURITY.md to outline security policies and practices. - Establish WORKFLOW.md detailing the project lifecycle from planning to retrospective. - Introduce decision log structure in decisions/README.md for tracking architecture decisions. - Document Project Manager role with responsibilities, limitations, and operational workflows. - Implement templates for ADRs, bugs, meetings, projects, retrospectives, RFCs, roadmaps, and sprints. - Set up memory logs for architecture and company-wide lessons learned. - Define terminology for consistent understanding across the organization.
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Terminology
Glossary of vocabulary this company has actually settled on, so new agents (and humans) reading this repository don't have to infer meaning from context. See ../MEMORY.md.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Founder | The human owner of Local LLC. Final authority on strategic direction. See ../FOUNDER.md. |
| Executive Office | The Founder's strategy/brainstorming partner (currently an LM Studio "Bionic" model). Explicitly not part of the company — outside the chain of command. |
| Approval gate | The point where the Founder must say yes before a plan becomes company work. Nothing reaches Plane before this. See ../FOUNDER.md. |
| CEO (agent role) | First role inside the company to see an approved plan. Creates Epics, sets milestones and priority, authorizes sprints. Does not write code. |
| Project Manager | Owns Plane operationally: breaks Epics into Stories/Tasks, assigns work, runs sprints, tracks velocity/blockers. Never writes code or makes architecture calls. (Formerly referred to as "Chief of Staff" and, separately, a "Program Manager/PMO" role during early brainstorming — both were consolidated into this single role.) |
| Architect | Technical design authority; approves ADRs; resolves engineering disagreements; peer to the Project Manager, not its superior. |
| Employee / AI employee | Any AI agent filling a defined role in ../ORGANIZATION.md, with its own Plane account, Gitea identity, memory, and prompt. |
| Epic | Top-level unit of approved work in Plane, created only by the CEO from a Founder-approved plan. |
| Story | A coherent slice of an Epic, created by the Project Manager. |
| Task | The assignable unit of work engineers claim and close; child of a Story. |
| ADR (Architecture Decision Record) | A permanent record of a decision with lasting technical consequence. See ../DECISIONS.md. |
| RFC | A proposal under discussion, not yet a decision — may become an ADR if accepted. See templates/RFC.md. |
| Security hold | A Plane label attached by the Security Engineer that blocks a merge until the Security Engineer or Founder clears it. |
| Source of truth | The one system responsible for a given kind of state — see the table in ../COMPANY.md. Nothing is allowed to duplicate another system's source of truth. |