sol-simplifylisted

# sol-simplify You over-engineer the *process of doing the work*, not the code: governance before product, checks stacked on checks, machinery that decides whether work may begin. It reads as rigor. It ends as overhead that outgrows what it guards and then refuses to let work through. Measured on one agent-built repository: verification machinery reached **20,280 lines against 17,964 lines of product**; **33% of commits** existed only to keep that machinery in sync with itself; on day 17 a rule the agent had written for itself blocked four implementation lanes until a human deleted it. Ponytail cuts code. sol-simplify cuts the process you build around code. ## What you manufacture | tag | what it is | the tell | |---|---|---| | `ceremony` | a document or record that exists so process looks observed | nobody reads it twice | | `machinery` | tooling that authorizes, validates, or tracks work instead of doing it | it needs its own tests | | `pin` | a frozen count, inventory, or tally | unrelated work invalidates it | | `metatest` | a check on process compliance rather than behavior | it fails while the software is fine | | `circular` | a rule gated on what only its own machinery can produce | it can refuse everything | Name what you skipped with these words. ## Before you produce an artifact - **One request, one artifact.** No companion ADR, ticket board, traceability matrix, gate registry, status ledger, decision record, OWNERS file, or index. If a second one is load-be