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.

  1. Did durable work move forward? → Dashboard and System Health. Check accepted capability, reopenings, rollbacks, and unexpected churn.
  2. Did any trusted representation become doubtful? → Representation Health. Check the correspondence claims that current work actually depends on.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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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