Traditional SDLC vs Artifact

Traditional SDLC keeps the truth in tickets, PRDs, and meetings that go stale by Friday. Artifact keeps it connected to the code and checked on every build.

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What Traditional SDLC is good at.

Rigor. The traditional process exists because software built without a record of what it's supposed to do falls apart, and that lesson was expensive.

The moment it stops working.

The agents. Tickets and PRDs were written for people to read in meetings. An agent starts a session with none of it, and nobody has time to paste it in. So the process stays, the agents ignore it, and the two drift apart.

Which one holds your product?

Traditional SDLCArtifact
The truth lives inTickets, PRDs, and meetingsA typed record connected to the code
Stale byFridayNever. Drift is shown; you decide on it.
AI agentsBolted onto the processBriefed from the record over MCP, before every run
VerificationDoes it compile? Did QA pass?Does it match what we agreed?
OnboardingRe-explaining the productReading the record

You don't have to choose on day one.

Keep your process. Artifact is the record your tickets point at and your agents read from, so the rigor you already have reaches the agents you already run. A brief before the run, a check after, and the same pull request in between.

Governance
Spruce / Features / Book and pay in one flow

Book and pay in one flow

4 rules · 5 acceptance criteria · 3 decisions · last checked against code 14 min ago

  • Book without an account Decided Aug 4 — checked on every change
    Matches intent
  • Apple Pay offered on mobile checkout Built: card only. The build stopped matching what you meant.
    Drifted
  • Cancel inside the refund window You haven't decided: 24 hours, or until the day before?
    Open question
  • The total is shown before pay Decided Jul 22 — checked on every change
    Matches intent

Your product, on the record, in a surface you already know how to read.

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