Building Krucible — obsessive about the details
BUILDING

Why Krucible's product-management orchestration?

A product carries more context than a brain can hold. Krucible holds it, writes it to your repo as real deliverables, and proves the process held. 0 dropped.

01 · THE DETAILS

Obsesses over the details.

The edgiest of the edge cases.

Discovery asks one question at a time. It goes where a tired human won't: empty states, failure paths, the user who does everything wrong. The PRD it writes is pseudocode for the build.

Reality moves. The docs move with it.

At every step, Krucible reconciles the work against your project docs. When reality drifts from what's written, it says so — and updates the deliverable. Context stays current, always.

A parking lot, not an abyss.

Defer a decision and it parks with its blast radius: what it blocks, which docs change once decided. The moment it becomes a dependency, it resurfaces. None forgotten.

02 · THE RECORD

Loses nothing. Lets nothing slip through.

docs/krucible/
├─ idea-blueprint.md  
├─ architecture.md    
├─ decisions/d.51.md  
└─ launch-record.md  

Deliverables, not chat scroll.

Every decision lands as a file: blueprint, architecture, reviews, launch records in your git repo; per-feature history on your Notion cards.

Context carried, end to end.

Each command reads what came before it and hands its own work forward. Blueprint shapes design. Design shapes plan. Plan shapes code. You explain your product once.

Security is a gate, not an afterthought.

Before launch, an OWASP Top-10 + STRIDE audit sweeps the MVP. Every finding becomes a fix-card; the audit re-runs until the verdict is Clean. Launch stays locked until then.

03 · ENFORCED BY DESIGN

Enforces the discipline, by design.

Claude — Krucible run d.52 · YOUR CALL

Checkout is specced. One product call before I write the stories.

Checkout
Guest checkout or accounts-first for the MVP?
Guest checkout Recommended
Lower friction to first sale. Accounts can follow in v1.1.
Accounts first
Better retention data, slower first sale.
Defer for now
Parks with its blast radius — blocks: checkout story.

One conscious decision at a time.

Every consequential call comes to you as a simple choice: one recommended default, honest alternatives. Never a wall of text. Never a silent assumption. Krucible never auto-accepts and never auto-merges — the run waits for you, then carries your answer forward.

Loops that run till it's done right.

A command runs once. A loop re-runs until an external check passes: zero blockers, every criterion green, the audit clean. Never "looks done." A retry cap escalates to you instead of burning tokens.

$ krucible check
[F2] index truthful       
[P3] sign-offs recorded   
[D1] parked calls tracked 
[H1] no secrets in repo   
[S4] repo clean & merged 
[S3] launch gated        
17 checks · exit 0 · CI-ready

Checked to production grade.

Deterministic checks verify the paper trail in seconds — no LLM, no API key. The index tells the truth, every sign-off has a record, and launch only follows the verdicts Complete and Clean. Exit codes your CI can read.

04 · TUNE, STEER & VERIFY

More control, exactly where you want it.

Krucible does the work, but you hold the wheel. Steer the product live, set how often it checks in, and catch anything that only looks finished.

Review and edit your product, live.

Every built feature opens in a running preview. Walk it, click through it, and ask for changes in plain language — Krucible turns your edits into tracked work, driven through the same review and sign-off. No IDE, no waiting.

ASK-LEVEL
FREE

You set how much it asks you.

Some founders want a say in everything; others want near-autopilot. Pick a level — every command matches it, and logs the calls it makes for you.

High “Ask me about everything.”
Scope, UX, cost, and the small calls like naming and minor variants. Most questions.
Medium “Ask the notable calls too.”
What shapes scope, core UX, or cost, or can't be undone — plus notable secondary calls like meaningful UX variants and trade-offs.
Low “Ask only what truly matters.” Default · Recommended
What shapes scope, core UX, or cost, or can't be undone; the rest it decides and logs. Fewest interruptions.
ALWAYS ASKS

Sign-off, security, launch, and anything touching secrets or money — at every level.

$ krucible ask-level  — or just say “ask me less.”

Catches demo-ware before it ships.

AI agents love a demo that only looks shipped — mock data behind a real screen, dead buttons, the happy path and no other. krucible detect names each one. Deterministic, no API key, runs in CI.

$ krucible detect ./lovable-export
› scanning the build for demo-ware…
[M1] mock data · 3 endpoints  
[C2] dead control · "Export"  
[H3] happy-path only · checkout !
[A4] no auth on cancel route  
12 checks · report written · no API key
05 · THE ROADMAP

Keeps getting better with you.

01
More coding agents
Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and beyond — one governed run, any harness.
02
More connectors
Jira, Linear, Slack, Figma and more — Krucible meets your stack where it lives.
03
User research, wired in
Direct customer feedback flows into discovery and the backlog.
04
Post-launch outcomes
Measure what shipped against what was promised — fed back into the next run.
05
A visual console
Run and watch Krucible from a front-end UI — no terminal required.
06
Voice at every stage
Talk through discovery, decisions, and sign-offs.
07
Product brain
Deeper, more nuanced context collection across every run.
06 · EARLY ACCESS

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