# Mission Control — Program Status Report (2026-07-11)

> **What this is and why it matters.** A point-in-time status of the Mission Control program for
> technical leadership — written so a CTO can understand exactly where the program stands without
> reading the codebase or the backlog. It states plainly what is *documented*, what is *decided*,
> what is *planned in beads*, and — honestly — what is *built* (nothing yet, by design). It is a
> snapshot; newer snapshots supersede it on top of the reports feed.

## TL;DR

Mission Control is being **architected and designed in full before any code is written.** The
entire program blueprint is being **hand-rolled as a governed backlog** (beads) — deliberately,
one epic at a time, checked against the roadmap — so the build proceeds from an approved design,
not from guesses. **Phase 0 (discovery + governance) is documented and complete. Phases 1–3 + a
technology-selection gate are the design being laid down now. Platform implementation is 0% — and
that is the intended state at this stage.** An independent 12-agent audit has already verified the
0%-built reality and hardened the plan.

| Dimension | State |
|---|---|
| Governing documents | **54** numbered artifacts + **10** decision-log entries |
| Constitution | ADR-000 ratified, incl. the new **Article V — Standing Infrastructure Assumption** |
| Program backlog (beads) | **182** governed issues; Phase 0 closed, Phase 1 hand-roll in progress (**11 epics, 53 beads**) |
| Change tracking | Every bead operation is an atomic **Dolt** commit (git-for-data); git mirrors the portable export |
| Platform code shipped | **0%** — deliberate; build begins only after the full blueprint is designed + gate-approved |

## Method — design-first, hand-rolled, gate-reviewed

1. **The whole blueprint is designed before building.** Every phase, epic, and task is hand-authored
   as a bead with a real objective, testable acceptance criteria, references to the governing docs,
   and build-order dependencies. No scripted/bulk generation — an early scripted attempt produced
   drift, was torn down, and is being rebuilt by hand.
2. **Staged gate-reviews.** At each phase boundary the design is reviewed and signed off before the
   next phase is detailed. Build starts only after the full blueprint clears its final gate.
3. **Everything is governed and auditable.** Decisions land in an append-only decision log + an ADR
   index; changes are tracked in Dolt's version control; a disclosure gate + secret scan run in CI.

## What is documented (the governing set)

- **Roadmap** (`037`) — the full program: Phases 0, 1, 2, **2.5 (technology selection)**, 3, and a
  standing **Phase X (continuous improvement)**, with dependency order and capacity analysis.
- **ADR-000 — the constitution** (`038`) — platform-over-tools, API-first, platform-before-UI, the
  RBAC portal end-state, the integration contract, and standing Articles I–V (Article V = the
  Standing Infrastructure Assumption: self-hosted-first, sufficient-resources, estate-awareness).
- **Standards** — success metrics + KPIs (`043`), Definitions of Done (`044`), repository
  architecture (`046`), documentation & AAR standard (`039`), program governance + RACI (`050`).
- **Decision log** (`001`–`010`) + **ADR index** (`047`) — every architecture decision, its status,
  and what superseded it.
- **Phase-0 audits** — estate/backups/architecture readiness + the exit checklist (`051`).

## Decisions locked (the ones that shape everything downstream)

- **Build the full platform ("glory build")** — the complete authenticated RBAC operational platform
  is committed, not an opportunistic subset; the build order stays disciplined (data-model-first,
  contract-first API, hardening-floor-first).
- **Phase 2.5 — Technology Selection gate** — no Phase-3 epic hard-codes a technology (auth, event
  bus, workflow, search, portal framework…) without a formal, scored, multi-candidate ADR first.
- **ADR-000 Article V — Standing Infrastructure Assumption** — evaluate self-hosted OSS before SaaS
  (a 4-rung ladder); assume a dedicated production server with sufficient resources; integrate with
  the existing estate before adding new tech; no dependency without a long-term operational plan.
- **Hand-rolled, not scripted** — the blueprint is authored deliberately so the foundation is sound.

## Independent verification (12-agent audit, 2026-07-11)

The program through Epic 3.1 was put through an adversarial multi-agent audit (platform architecture,
SRE, security, docs, DevOps, product, repo, OSS governance, program management, red team, plus a
beads specialist). Headline verdict, confirmed by every reviewer: **implementation is ~0% — the
platform is fully specified and entirely unbuilt.** The audit also found real backlog drift in the
first (scripted) pass — which is exactly why the backlog was torn down and is being hand-rolled. The
audit's remediation is being actioned as the hand-roll proceeds.

## Program backlog — where the beads stand

- **Phase 0 — complete** (closed with evidence): mission alignment, estate audit, program planning,
  the constitution, the standards, the decision framework.
- **Phase 1 — hand-roll in progress (11 of ~18 epics rolled):** the hardening floor (dev-box
  hardening · off-site + immutable backup · DR game-day + per-engine DB dumps · alert floor +
  dead-man's-switch), plus GitHub-independent repo mirroring, provisioning-as-code (Ansible), the
  API-first schema foundation, the incident process, deploy-safety auto-revert, the gated runbook
  merge, and the verify-and-document pass. Each with testable acceptance and floor-first ordering.
- **Phases 2 / 2.5 / 3 / X — designed in the roadmap, to be hand-rolled next**, phase by phase,
  through the gate-review cadence.

## Where we are, and what's next

**We are architecting.** The next milestones are: finish the Phase-1 hand-roll → **Phase-1
gate-review** → hand-roll Phase 2 (observability + platform services) → gate → Phase 2.5 (technology
selection ADRs) → gate → Phase 3 (the portal) → gate → Phase X → **final blueprint sign-off**, after
which implementation begins against an approved, fully-designed plan.

*Snapshot as of 2026-07-11. The reports feed carries the roadmap, the constitution, and the
standards in full for deeper reading.*