D.2 Daily Operator Review
Use these five questions at a regular cadence and after consequential changes. The card introduces no new measures; each question points to the card that helps answer it.
- Did durable work move forward? → Dashboard and System Health. Check accepted capability, reopenings, rollbacks, and unexpected churn.
- Did any trusted representation become doubtful? → Representation Health. Check the correspondence claims that current work actually depends on.
- Did an obligation escape the mechanism intended to enforce it? → System Health and Release Readiness. Identify the boundary, evidence, validator, or gate that failed, or confirm that the obligation was intentionally left to judgment.
- What did a human have to reconstruct or decide again? → Human Judgment. Repeated semantic work may be worth making explicit or durable, but recurrence alone does not justify automation.
- What should the environment learn from the recurrence? → Governance Conversion and Engineering Capital. Decide whether the lesson justifies a representation, control, procedure, architectural change, retirement of stale machinery, or no durable change.
DAILY OPERATOR REVIEW "The morning five questions"
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1 Did durable work move forward? → Dashboard / System Health
2 Did a trusted representation become doubtful? → Representation Health
3 Did an obligation escape enforcement? → System Health / Release Readiness
4 What did a human have to decide again? → Human Judgment
5 What should the environment learn? → Governance Conversion / Capital
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These reviews may run automatically at lifecycle boundaries, but classifying and interpreting the results may still require human judgment.
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