Developer

Developer

CARVES is not another chat-shaped coding surface. It is a local control layer for AI-generated project work.

Why it matters

• It gives AI work a stable project progression path.
• It keeps long project memory through goals, boundaries, decisions, evidence, and handoff context.
• It makes results reviewable before they are accepted.
• It lets you keep using your existing agent while CARVES provides the control structure around it.

What to read first

• Core advantages if you need the product value first.
• Control loop if you need the project progression model.
• Guard if you want patch admission boundaries.
• Handoff if you need session continuity.
• Audit if you need local evidence discovery.
• Shield if you need G/H/A, Lite score, and badge output.
• Matrix if you need the end-to-end local proof lane.

Developer boundary

Use normal human review for any Guard review or block decision. Matrix records local proof; it does not decide that a patch should merge.