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Notes on deterministic software delivery, policy-as-code, and what building aSPARK has taught us.

What a full loop costs: 42 million tokens, $35 — and 96% of it cache

Seven role agents across five phases: one measured run, broken down per role, with the caveats that belong to it.

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Your first loop: start with /charter, not with the feature

Install, project profile, first feature: what to do in your first hour with aSPARK — and which decision at each gate is genuinely yours.

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Write the idea, not the ticket: keeping the Specify gate short

The Product Owner asks about whatever you left open. Anticipate the gaps and you get to a better spec faster — here is the pattern that keeps working.

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Why determinism is the more interesting property than speed

AI assistants make generation cheap. The bottleneck moves to where it was already tight — and determinism is what reopens it.

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