Case studies
The framework's evolution, told through the features it shipped — grouped by era, newest first, so the latest work is right at the top. Each era pins its milestones, then sub-groups by subject. Ordering follows your selected lens.
How we measured
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Browse by era
Grouped by framework era, newest first — the latest work is one click away. Each era pins its milestone(s), then sub-groups by subject. Ordering follows your selected lens.
Framework 24
- v7.10Control Room Live Feed — from build-time snapshot to fail-soft request-time dataJun 20263 min
- v7.10T10 — AI Golden-Set Eval Harness (and why the FitMe AI is deterministic, not generative)Jun 20263 min
- v7.10T3 — SignInService Passkey/WebAuthn Unit Tests (closing the highest-risk zero-coverage service)Jun 20263 min
- v7.10T5 — Mock-Protocol Drift Detection (a central conformance registry, reframed for the real codebase)Jun 20263 min
- v7.9.1HADF Phase 3A — The Sensing Layer (detection-only observability over a validated dispatch signal)Jun 20265 min
- v7.9.1T14 platforms_tested — Platform-test parity as a queryable state fieldJun 20263 min
- v7.9.1HADF Signature Expansion — empirical-first, with a real on-device calibrationJun 20265 min
- v7.9.1F16 Try-repo Pre-commit Harness — The 3rd Gate-Test Layer (v7.9.1)Jun 20263 min
- v7.9.1F17 Per-Gate `last_fired_at` Index — Derived Telemetry Materialization (v7.9.1)Jun 20263 min
- v7.9.1F2 Phase 0 Reality-Check — Mechanical Defense Against Post-Squash-Merge State Drift (v7.9.1)Jun 20263 min
- v7.9.1Framework v7.9.1 — Single-day Build Window (8 ships, 14 PRs, 0 new gates)Jun 20267 min
- v7.9Orchid — From Dispatch Patterns to Silicon, Validated by MeasurementJun 202610 min
- v7.9When Two Workflows Share a Name — The `${{ github.workflow }}` Concurrency Trap (W26)Jun 20264 min
- v7.9When gh pr view Lies — The Stale-Base Branch Trap and a 33-Zombie CleanupMay 20266 min
- v7.9Framework v7.9 — Promotion Release: 3 Advisory Gates → Enforced via Single-Flag Flip After 14-Day CalibrationMay 20262 min
- v7.8.3HADF Phase 2-bis — Cross-Sub-Exp Synthesis (3 Sub-Experiments)May 20266 min
- v7.8.3Cross-Repo State Sync (v7.8.3) — 10 PRs Across 2 Repos, 3-Attempt Cutover Ceremony, Reverse-Sync Infrastructure LiveMay 20267 min
- v7.8.1Framework v7.8.1 — Branch Isolation + Feature-Closure Completeness from One Full PM CycleMay 20267 min
- v7.8.1Roadmap Stress Test — Compressing 10 Weeks of Backlog Through the v7.8.1 ProtocolMay 20262 min
- v7.8Bridge to v7.9 — How v7.8 Closed the v7.7 Silent-PassMay 20266 min
- v7.7When the Gate Read One Field and the Data Lived in AnotherMay 20267 min
- v7.7HADF Phase 2 — Cloud Fingerprinting MeasurementMay 20265 min
- v7.7Validity Closure — How v7.7 Closed the Last Closable Class B GapApr 20268 min
- v7.6Mechanical Enforcement — How v7.6 Closed the Class B Gap from Gemini's AuditApr 20268 min
Design System 8
- v7.8.3Design System P2 Deferred — One Variant, One Migration, Ten Items Still DeferredMay 20263 min
- v7.8.3iOS UI-Audit P1 Drift Cleanup — 44 → 14 (Option B Respected, 68% Reduction)May 20261 min
- v7.8.3fitme-story DS P2 Final Sweep — 3 Utility Classes, 5 P2s Closed, 5 Re-DeferredMay 20261 min
- v7.8.3UI/UX Final Sweep — iOS P1 to 0, fitme-story P2 to 93%, /case-studies browse-by-categoryMay 20262 min
- v7.8.2iOS UI Audit P1 Burndown — 2-PR Token Substitution + Audit HardeningMay 20265 min
- v7.8.2fitme-story Website Design System — Public Showcase + Drift Detection + HeritageMay 20265 min
- v7.7Case-Study Presentation Refactor — Locking Alt-A Across 25 StudiesApr 20265 min
- v7.1UI-Audit Baseline Burndown — P0 27 → 0 and a Hard GateApr 20264 min
Product features 23
- v7.10F18 — Mutation Testing on the Gate Dispatchers (v7.10)Jun 20262 min
- v7.10Funnel Analysis Dashboards — running the canonical funnels against live GA4 (v7.10)Jun 20262 min
- v7.10Contract-Fixture Consumer Adoption (E-15) — closing the W16 cross-repo silent-pass (v7.10)Jun 20262 min
- v7.10figma-design-architecture — honest closure of the design-system source-of-truth storyJun 20264 min
- v7.10Android Token Pipeline — making the design system real (AND-1)Jun 20264 min
- v7.10Foundation Models Tier 3 — real on-device AI personalization, with an SDK-gated cloud-escalation pathJun 20263 min
- v7.10Garmin Health Connection (Tier 1) — Source attribution without a backendJun 20262 min
- v7.10T13 Per-Gate `last_failed_at` Index — distinguishing "stopped running" from "running + catching" (v7.10)Jun 20263 min
- v7.9.1fitme-story Dual-Audience Redesign — a cookie-backed lens that re-narrates one site for two audiencesJun 20264 min
- v7.9AI User Feedback Loop — Closing Audit UI-024 with a Per-User Reinforcement Cycle (C5)Jun 20266 min
- v7.9Exercise Search/Filter — a discoverable read-only library on top of the 50-exercise catalog (C3)Jun 20264 min
- v7.9Training Program Customization — custom splits on top of the fixed PPL (C6)Jun 20264 min
- v7.9Readiness-Aware Training Alert — A Second Observer for Today's Training-Day Decision Aid (C2)Jun 20264 min
- v7.9Trend Alerts (HRV) — A Third Observer for the Multi-Day Sustained Pattern (C4)Jun 20265 min
- v7.8.6UCC Passkey Auth Security Hardening — closing 4 deferred gaps before the v7.9 freezeMay 20263 min
- v7.8.5Analytics Observability — closing the measurement-debt loop (taxonomy cleanup + a live GA4 path)Jun 20263 min
- v7.8.1UCC Passkey Auth — Replacing basic-auth on the operator dashboard with WebAuthnMay 20265 min
- v7.8Push Notifications v2 — From v1 Partial-Ship to Platform-Layer Rebuild in a Single DayMay 20267 min
- v7.8Unified Control Center — Migrating an Operator Dashboard Across Two Repos in 11 DaysMay 20266 min
- v7.8Import Training Plan — Resume from Audit-Flagged Partial Ship to Full Phase 1 Ship in 14 HoursMay 20267 min
- v7.8Smart Reminders Behavioral Learning — PR-1 Shipped Across iOS + BackendMay 20265 min
- v7.7stats-v2 — Resume, Reconcile, and Ship Despite a Three-Layer Bug StackApr 20265 min
- v7.6auth-polish-v2 — Three Workstreams Bundled, 18/18 Tasks ShippedMay 20264 min
Meta-analysis & methodology
Studies that audit or validate the framework itself — full-system audits, normalized retrospectives, external validation, and operations-layer notes. Read these to see how the framework holds up under scrutiny.
- vpre-v5.0Backlog Roundup — Two Pre-Rule Features That Stay Roundup-OnlyApr 20263 min
- v6.1185 Findings, 12 Critical — What a Full-System Audit RevealedApr 20268 min
- metaExternal Validation — Did Our Numbers Hold Up?Apr 20266 min
- metaWhat If We Had Measurement From Day One? — A Retrospective ROI AnalysisApr 20267 min
- metaHow We Normalized Complexity Across 16 Different FeaturesApr 20267 min
- metaThe operations layer in practice3 short studies
Developer deep-dives
Engineering write-ups for readers who want the code-level story — SSR, animation plumbing, component design. Not required reading for the framework narrative.
- The Lego Metaphor — Designing the PM-Flow Ecosystem PageApr 202610 min
- Watching the Framework Build the Site That's Replaying It — The DispatchReplay ComponentApr 20268 min
- The XCTWaiter Abort — Learning to Stop, Rollback, and RetryApr 20266 min
- The Blank-Main Bug — Catching a Production SSR Regression After PromotingApr 20267 min