dsh-spec-gate

When you ask an AI to write a report or run an analysis, the brief is often one sentence long, yet the result still misses the mark. dsh-spec-gate takes a different approach: lock the specification before any work begins, then gate delivery against it, refusing to hand over anything that does not meet the locked criteria.

Two gates do the heavy lifting. The interview gate uses Socratic questioning to surface hidden assumptions, scoring eight dimensions (audience, purpose, format, data, scope, tone, acceptance criteria, deadline) and only proceeding once the ambiguity score converges at 0.2 or below; the result is sealed into an immutable, hash-keyed Seed via spec_seed_build. The acceptance gate then mechanically checks the draft against that Seed before delivery, testing keyword coverage, hard constraints, and word count, and fails closed on any miss.

It is built for content production workflows such as writing, analysis, and reports. It pairs naturally with dsh-cybernetics: every acceptance failure is logged to the events stream and fed back into the cybernetic control loop, giving the next iteration a concrete, auditable signal to work from.