You're shipping faster than ever with AI-assisted tooling – and that speed is quietly accumulating risk you won't see until it's a production incident or a security breach. This workflow gives you the stage-gated process discipline that an engineering team would normally enforce: structured prompting standards that produce reviewable output, a solo code review checkpoint designed around what AI consistently normalizes past, eval design before you trust AI-generated logic in production, and a security audit gate targeting the vulnerability patterns AI tools introduce most often. You also get a pre-ship sign-off protocol to run before every production deploy, plus documentation standards calibrated to solo pace – enough to keep your codebase maintainable without becoming a second job. Real decision logs from an active codebase are included to show how the framework applies to concrete implementation choices.
What's included
- A five-phase development workflow covering prompt discipline, solo code review, eval design, security auditing, and documentation – each as a named checkpoint you run before moving to the next stage
- A solo code review framework built around the failure modes AI tools normalize: the patterns a solo founder won't catch without a structured process to look for them
- An eval design phase that walks you through how to test AI-generated logic before trusting it in production – not after something breaks
- A security audit gate covering the vulnerability categories AI-assisted development consistently introduces, so you can clear them before shipping rather than discover them in the wild
- A pre-ship sign-off protocol: a final gate to run before every production deploy, covering the checks that fall through the cracks when there's no team to catch them
- Four real decision logs from an active codebase – covering rate limiting strategy, Stripe idempotency, webhook signature verification, and a token refresh race condition – showing how the framework applies to actual implementation decisions
- Documentation standards scoped to solo pace: a practical baseline for keeping AI-assisted code maintainable without documentation overhead that stalls shipping
