Tiers

📁 Source note: [sage] = upstream Sage repo (github.com/xoai/sage, public) — optional deeper reading; this skill runs fully on the rules inlined here. A step marked MUST READ points at a file in your own project (e.g. an event registry) — if it is missing, stop and ask instead of improvising.

Tier is the answer to one question: how much process does this deserve?

Too much process on a trivial change is bureaucracy, and users learn to route around it. Too little on a consequential one is how a "quick fix" becomes an outage. Tier is where that judgment is made explicit instead of being made silently, differently, every time.

The three tiers