Change discovery
Bounded commit ranges identify files and capabilities that may require documentation review.
Delivery system
Build the capability and its explanation together.
Bast treats specifications, tests, deployment artifacts, and documentation as parts of one delivery path. Agents can accelerate the work; immutable evidence and named human review establish what can be claimed.
From intent to operation
Every stage leaves something inspectable.
Define
State the outcome, boundary, invariant, and acceptance evidence before implementation language hardens into a promise.
Produces: specification, decision, owner, target maturity.
Build
Implement bounded functions and configuration inside explicit service and infrastructure boundaries.
Produces: source SHA, dependency and artifact identity.
Test
Exercise the behavior and its failure boundaries with deterministic tests and appropriately scoped evaluations.
Produces: named gate, conditions, result, immutable run.
Deploy
Move the exact built artifact into a named environment and distinguish preview, pilot, and production availability.
Produces: environment record and deployed identity.
Observe
Capture content-free operational signals and product evidence needed to understand behavior after release.
Produces: bounded metrics and recovery evidence.
Explain
Update public claims only when the evidence supports the wording and the business and technical owners approve it.
Produces: claim ID, maturity, evidence, review dates.
Human + machine
Automate discovery and verification. Preserve accountable judgment.
Deterministic gates
Builds, schema checks, links, freshness, disclosure scans, and final-output checks fail reproducibly.
Public meaning
A business owner decides whether wording communicates the right outcome without creating an unsupported promise.
Technical truth
The relevant technical owner confirms implementation, operating scope, and maturity for the exact evidence.
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