dod-adherence-review

What this owns, and what it does not

This is a compliance audit of work against a checklist that already exists. The checklist is an input, treated as fixed for the duration of the audit. The output is a per-line verdict backed by artifacts.

Authoring a Definition of Done is a different job with a different output: that work decides which lines belong on the list, negotiates thresholds, and produces a checklist file. Guidance for that lives with DoD-authoring material, not here. The split matters because the two jobs pull in opposite directions: authoring is collaborative and can trade a line away, auditing is adversarial and cannot. If a line turns out to be unenforceable, that is a finding to hand back to the authoring conversation, not a licence to skip the line.