storypole

A story pole is a stick a mason marks once at the start of a job. Every bricklayer on the wall works from it, so all their courses land at exactly the same heights — one shared reference, many parallel workers, no drift.

Storypole applies that to a team building a prototype together: a git-backed registry of features, each one a file with an owner, a status and a lock, from which the PRD is generated rather than hand-written.

• Feature files, not a prose PRD — one file per feature, so "what is pending" and "who owns this" are answerable, and six people editing do not conflict.
• Owner locks — a locked feature cannot be enhanced or dropped by anyone but its owner, with an audited force-unlock for when someone goes on leave.
• Generated PRD — PRD.md is built from the registry, so it never drifts.
• PDLC phase gates — a feature cannot advance a phase until that phase's artifact exists (acceptance criteria, smoke test, recorded learning).
• Impact analysis — dependents are listed and reconciled before any bump.

Status

Pre-release placeholder. This version reserves the name and ships no functional code; do not depend on it yet. A first working release will follow.

License

MIT