Cortex Governed Cycle

Overview

Run Cortex implementation work through the required governance loop. Use this workflow to keep decisions, audits, and gate evidence consistent before closeout.

Workflow

1. Assess whether work is non-trivial and governance-impacting.
2. Run preflight audit-needed and branch on audit_required.
3. Run coach + audit when required.
4. Capture and promote decision/reflection artifacts when behavior, policy, or gates changed.
5. Run required quality gate.
6. Remove incidental generated artifact noise before commit.
7. Report clean git state and gate status in handoff.

Use references/commands.md for exact command blocks.

Scope Heuristics

Treat work as governance-impacting when it touches:

• policies/, playbooks/, contracts/, specs/