workflow-fix-and-ship — Bug Fix Lifecycle

Degree of freedom: MIXED. Root-cause and surgical fix [HIGH freedom]; reproduce-before-edit, regression test, and PR evidence [LOW freedom — run exactly].

Triage → fix → verify → ship. Every step leaves evidence.

How to reason

1. Reproduce — exact local steps before any edit
2. Isolate — one-sentence root cause, not the crash site
3. Fix — smallest change plus a test that would have caught it
4. Prove — same repro is green; nearby flows still work

Worked example