What you want
"Add PDF export for invoices."
03 / WORK OWNERSHIP
Hand over a share,
not the whole.
Don't make the AI read everything and ask it to "be careful." Cut out one person's job: the places they may touch, the modules they may use, and the conditions that stop them.
PLAN
ASSIGN
CONTEXT
ASSIGN
CONTEXT
BEFORE THE FIRST LINE
Decide where it lives
before it's written.
Not clean-up afterwards. Describe what you want in one sentence, and non-conflicting shares and placements are proposed first, from the current structure and the record.
Non-conflicting bundles
Three: domain / rendering / ui
One person's contract
Just the scope and the prohibitions
A SMALL CONTRACT
Don't hand it 182KB.
Hand it 1.5KB.
Instead of re-reading the whole codebase to reach the same judgment, hand over only the promises this job needs. The numbers are measured, not invented.
ASSIGNMENT / 021,536 BYTES
- YOU OWN
- src/rendering/**
- MAY USE
- src/domain/**, src/shared/**
- MUST NOT TOUCH
- src/ui/**, package.json
- DONE WHEN
- PDF output test passes
public API remains unchanged
ISSUED FROM APPROVED SPEC / REV 04
BEYOND THE SESSION
The conversation ends.
The work continues.
Park the middle
What was tried, what's still undecided, and the next move go into the ledger.
Record dead ends
The road that didn't work is recorded, so the next AI doesn't walk it again.
Hand over the share
Not a summary of the chat — the grounds and the scope, passed to the next worker.
HUMAN AUTHORITY
The AI can propose.
A human decides.
AccordRail is a tool for giving work to AI — not for concentrating authority in it. Approving the record, changing a share, and accepting "done" remain human decisions.
Delegate the work.
Keep the authority.
04 / NEXT
Does the mechanism actually work?See the evidence ↗