Development Process

A structured, gate-driven workflow for shipping new features without guessing. Start with discovery and intake, then move through PRD, planning, implementation, validation, and PRs with explicit user approval at each critical gate.

Repo eligibility check (before anything else)

Before Phase 0, check ~/.ways/config.yaml's blacklist (format: incu-base's global-config rule, installed always-on) for the current repo. If it matches, tell the user this repo is blacklisted from incu-way and ask whether to proceed anyway (a one-off exception) or stop — do not run any phase until they answer. Missing file, or no match: proceed normally.

Phase 0 — Discovery and Intake (before anything)

Before writing a single line of code or project docs, gather enough product and codebase context to avoid drafting the wrong PRD.