Deliver spec

Core principle

Deliver one approved outcome with proportional validation and independent final review. The lead owns architecture, integration and delivery, and may implement tightly coupled work directly. Delegate when independent work, isolation or specialist investigation justifies the overhead. Preserve explicit ownership, external-action permissions, execution budgets and invocation-specific merge authority. Never select work from a Project queue.

Select the mode

For an active run-github-project controller's verified ticket handoff, read Project controller handoff and apply its procedure instead of the standalone approval, merge, and timeout rules below. The Project controller retains all shared state and merge authority. For a direct named-spec request, use the standalone procedure below; if a Project run already owns that issue, return it to that controller.