Factory launch

/factory-launch — set up the factory's control plane

The moment Hamzaish goes from "a repo with skills" to "a running factory": bounded unattended work, a formal authority model, and numeric kill gates. Everything here is operator-local (.local files, gitignored) — this is YOUR control plane, not the repo's.

Preconditions

• bun run setup has been run (it scaffolds the three .local files from the .example templates at the repo root; re-run it if they're missing — it never overwrites).

The walkthrough (one step at a time; confirm before moving on)

1. FACTORY-ORDERS.local.md — the mandate. Open it with the operator. Fill:

   • the Mandate section: 1–3 lines, each naming a product + the gate it's chasing this week;
   • the Budget section: the weekly dollar cap for ALL unattended work (suggest $25–50 to start — the cap is a feature, not a limitation: scarcity forces scoping). Explain: unattended sessions read this file FIRST and refuse work outside it.

2. STANDING-ORDERS.local.md — the authority table. Read the three programs (overnight-build, gtm-draft, heartbeat) aloud in summary. Confirm the operator accepts the iron law: agents research and draft; the operator publishes, sends, pays. Any scope widening is their explicit, dated edit — never yours.

3. HEARTBEAT.local.md — the pulse. Confirm the weekly cadence (default: Monday, before the operator's pulse block). Offer to schedule it (cron/scheduled task) or leave it manual (run the HEARTBEAT checklist in a fresh session).

4. Gates for every registered product. Run bun run check-gates. For each registered product flagged NO GATES ✗, write the gates block into its product.config.json with the operator — states-and-dates, channel-matched (see the gate ladder in FACTORY-ORDERS.example.md's pointer, or default: validation +4w · launch +30d · traction +90d · pmf +6mo). Dates are absolute (YYYY-MM-DD). The operator sets the states; you propose channel-matched defaults. WIP caps to confirm while you're here: 1 active build · 2 active GTM · rest autopilot.

5. Verify. bun run check-gates exits 0 and the dashboard shows every registered product with a next gate. bun test ./scripts/control-plane-templates.test.ts passes. Show the operator the dashboard. Done = both green, mandate + cap filled.

Completion criteria (checkable — no "looks done")

• All three .local control-plane files exist, mandate + weekly cap filled (non-placeholder)
• bun run check-gates → exit 0 (every registered product has a valid gates block)
• Operator has confirmed the iron law and the WIP caps out loud

Anti-patterns

• Filling the mandate/budget FOR the operator with invented numbers — the whole point is their precommitment, not yours.
• Writing gates a product can't measure (name the metric's source: Stripe, PostHog, GSC).
• Treating this as config to rush through — it's the factory's constitution; 20 minutes done honestly beats 5 minutes done cosmetically.