Intake

The mandatory entry point for all work. No downstream execution without an approved intake decision.

Context

Intake is the control plane for all engineering work in Prodcraft. Every piece of work — feature, bug fix, refactoring, migration, or research — enters the lifecycle through intake. Its job is to classify the work type, route to the correct lifecycle phase and methodology, and produce the intake-brief that anchors every downstream skill. It is triage, not a design session.

Inputs

• user-request -- the raw description of the work to be done
• existing-context -- project documentation, recent commits, open issues (read silently before asking questions)

Outputs