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A night without the owner

Pattern of the rule autonomous-work. What must be true — the law docs/constitution/autonomous-work.md.

When to use

• The owner said they are leaving and asked for work on one's own.
• More than one task in a row is taken in a session, and they cannot be handed outside.
• The work ran into a question, and there is nobody to ask.

The chain of branches

The first work branches from main, each next one — from the previous:

git checkout -b <КЛЮЧ>-<номер-1>-<slug> main           # the first of the night
git checkout -b <КЛЮЧ>-<номер-2>-<slug> <КЛЮЧ>-<номер-1>-<slug>
git checkout -b <КЛЮЧ>-<номер-3>-<slug> <КЛЮЧ>-<номер-2>-<slug>

The merge order is from the bottom up, and it is named in the morning list by numbers. A branch created from main in the middle of the chain will collide with its neighbour in shared files — indexes, counters, journals — and the owner will be the one to sort it out.

git log --oneline --graph --decorate main..HEAD | head -20   # what the chain stands on now
git branch --list '<КЛЮЧ>-*' --format='%(refname:short) %(upstream:short)'

The cycle of one piece of work

npm run task:move -- <номер> in-progress                 # taken
git checkout -b <КЛЮЧ>-<номер>-<slug> <прошлая ветка>    # a chain, not a fan
cp -r docs/tasks/_template docs/tasks/<КЛЮЧ>-<номер>-<slug>
# the grill with defaults, the plan, the state «этап-идёт»
git add docs/tasks/<КЛЮЧ>-<номер>-<slug> && git commit    # the folder goes into history at once
# work by stages: each ends with a commit and a run of the readiness sign
# the folder is taken apart into the archive by the last commit

Nothing goes outside during the night: no git push, no gh pr create, no publishing, no cargo mark. The branch stays local, and in the morning the owner decides what to hand out of it.

A default instead of a question

Written into the grill, into the decisions section — where the owner's answer would have been written:

- **<что принято>** — <довод>. Спросить было некого: заход автономный. Цена ошибки:
  <что придётся переделать, если владелец решит иначе>.

The cost of a mistake is not politeness but a sign: it separates a default that can be replayed in ten minutes from one for whose sake the work is better postponed whole.

A postponed task

A task that needs the owner's word is not taken: its state on the board stays as it was, and a line goes into the morning list.

- **RT-<номер> — <заголовок>.** Отложена: <какой вопрос и почему умолчания у него нет>.

The morning list

Appended along the way, after each closed piece of work, not assembled at the end.

| Работа | Ветка | Чем подтверждена | Чего ждёт |
| ------ | ----- | ---------------- | --------- |
| RT-… — <что сделано> | `<ветка>` (на `<предыдущей>`) | `<команда>` — <вывод> | заявки и слияния |

The order of rows is the merge order. Below the list — the postponed tasks with their questions.

A guard's refusal

The refusal names the skipped step: the step is done, the call is repeated, the work goes on. The night ends with work, not with an argument with the guard.

• The refusal demands what must not be done (a push, a PR). The work is brought to the place where the demand can be met in the morning and goes into the morning list as the line "waits for a PR".
• The refusal repeats at the same place twice — then the skipped step was understood wrongly: the rule named in the refusal is read, not the wording rewritten.

Common misses

• The branch was created from main by habit. The chain breaks silently, and the cost surfaces for the owner at the second merge.
• A default was taken and not written down. In the morning it cannot be told from knowledge, and the owner learns of it only when the work was done wrong.
• A task was taken and postponed halfway. On the board it is in progress, in the branch — half an edit; the next session reads it as begun and does not start over.
• The morning list was assembled from memory at the last minute. By that hour the window was already shrinking, and half of the night did not get into it.