Hallmark defines a principled process through which work of any size is delivered, standards are met, and what is claimed of the result is proven.
The practice is the interface; an application is an implementation of it. It states what must hold, who may act, and how work travels — and it never names a tool.
If something is claimed, there must be evidence to prove it.
Nothing advances on assertion. A specification that was never seen to pass is an intention with a filename.
If something can be determined from the record, it must not be decided.
What a change touches decides what it must satisfy — nobody rules a change small enough to skip something.
If something is claimed, decided or moved, there must be a path to what produced it.
One door in, identifiable actors, and a recorded reason at every gate.
Whatever the size of the work, or the kind of actor, the same process applies.
The practice runs all-human, all-agent, or any mix, without alteration.
| Act | Held by | Leaves behind |
|---|---|---|
| Capture | Anyone | A request |
| Sift | Worker | A typed item, agreed to be done |
| Specify | Worker | Specifications that fail |
| Plan | Worker | An ordered route, and a declared touch |
| Action | Worker | The change, and a result for every criterion |
| Validate | The persona, or a recorded stand-in | A judgement on the outcome |
| Publish | Worker | A delivered result, confirmed — and the state complete |