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Spine documentation

Governed, provenance-grounded autonomous delivery — for engineers who assume AI dev tools are vapour until proven otherwise.

What Spine does

Spine turns requirements into reviewed, tested pull requests — with a human in control. It extracts a deterministic Provenance Knowledge Graph from your code and its docs, reasons over it with no LLM in comprehension, and only writes code after you pass two gates.

Everything on this page is verified against the repo at v3.8.2.

Deterministic

Same commit in, byte-identical report out. No LLM in comprehension — a report you can diff in code review and trust in CI.

Grounded

Every answer points at a file:line. If Spine can’t cite it, it doesn’t claim it.

Governed

Nothing is pushed, merged, or written to your tracker without an explicit human approval. Every action is audited.

Read-only wedge

Eight comprehension tools in Claude Code or Codex. No credentials, writes nothing.

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