Concepts

codeArbiter is built on a set of interlocking ideas. Each page covers one concept in full.

• The gated-lane model: every kind of work has a sanctioned path with gates scaled to its risk.
• SMARTS: the structured scoring rubric for autonomous decisions, recorded in the sprint log.
• ADRs and the decision log: numbered, dated, user-attributed records of architecturally significant choices.
• Checkpoints: periodic read-only sweeps that catch drift and latent issues between feature work.
• The persona-register split: separate orchestrator, author, and reviewer personas that keep each role sharp.
• Provenance & context drift: source-hash tracking that surfaces stale claims and heals them at commit time.
• Just-in-time context injection: a four-tier map that injects a governance pointer on every governed-file Read.
• Auditability: how the pieces compose into an auditable record for any range of work.