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Content lifecycle

Process_Lifecycle · strict · 8 step(s)

One cycle of a folio from plan to retirement, calling editing and the draft-to-publication path as call activities. folio-assistant — the content lifecycle end to end, one cycle of a folio. Source of truth: this file. Open it in bpmn.io, Camunda Modeler, or any other BPMN 2.0 tool. The SVG under docs/assets/img/workflows/ is generated from it by bun run cat render:bpmn — never hand-edit the SVG. The extension on an activity names the folio-assistant skill that implements it; marks a step that reads or writes the shared work plan in beans/.

How it connects

• Called by: no call activity names this process
• Calls: Editing and HCI validation, Draft, review and publish
• Presented on: Content lifecycle — The content lifecycle, Publication workflow — Content lifecycle overview

Lanes — who acts

lane	role	what it does here
Programme manager	programme-manager	Opens and closes the cycle rather than running any of it: Task_Plan commits scope, team and artefacts before Lane_WorkPlan turns them into beans, and Task_Retire is reached only when Gateway_NextCycle finds nothing left to do — so this lane’s second appearance is a judgement that the cycle is actually finished, not a step inside it.
Work plan — beans (shared by humans and agents)	work-plan	Touched twice, not once: Task_SeedBeans converts the programme manager’s plan into trackable work at the start, and Task_FeedbackBeans converts triaged reader feedback into more of it at the end, immediately before Gateway_NextCycle asks whether to go around again — so this lane is what makes the lifecycle a LOOP rather than a line, carrying what closed one cycle into what opens the next.
Editors + authoring agents	editor	The single re-entry point for every round the cycle contains — Gateway_NextCycle’s ‘yes’ branch (H09) loops straight back here rather than to Task_Plan — so this lane runs once per proposed change, not once per cycle, and is where the accept decision on each of those changes is made before anything reaches the corpus-wide Task_Test.
Validation and QA (mechanical + agents)	validation-pipeline	The corpus-wide check no single block’s HCI validation gate can perform — cross-references, whole-folio build status, proof status and QA axes — sitting between the editor’s accept and the publication manager’s release, so a change that passed block-level review still has to clear folio-level checks before CallActivity_Publication ever runs.
Review team and SMEs	reviewer	The only reviewing this lane does happens AFTER publication, not before it: Task_Feedback triages what implementers and readers report on the LIVE folio, by severity and scope, and that triage — not a fresh review — is what Task_FeedbackBeans turns into the next cycle’s work.
Publication manager	publication-manager	The single point in the cycle where the corpus becomes public: reached only after Task_Test has cleared the whole folio, and its own outcome is what Task_Feedback then collects reactions to — so whatever this lane calls out to in draft-to-publication.bpmn is the last gate before readers see anything.

Steps

Every one of the 8 step(s) is documented.

step	lane	skill / sub-process	what it does
Plan scope, team, artifacts Task_Plan	Programme manager	content-plan	Scope the work, identify artifacts and actors, form the team, set the timeline.
Seed the work plan Task_SeedBeans	Work plan — beans (shared by humans and agents)	shared step GT_SeedWorkPlan todo-manager	The plan becomes beans, so a resumed session or a sibling agent can pick it up. From here on, beans/ is the shared answer to ‘what is done, what is next’ — for humans and agents alike.
Editing and HCI validation CallActivity_Editing	Editors + authoring agents	calls Editing and HCI validation content-author content-validate content-review	See editing-hci-validation.bpmn. Runs once per proposed change, not once per cycle.
Integration test and QA sweep Task_Test	Validation and QA (mechanical + agents)	content-test	Corpus-wide checks that a single-block gate cannot make: cross-references, build green, proof status, QA axes across the whole folio.
Draft, review and publish CallActivity_Publication	Publication manager	calls Draft, review and publish content-review content-publish	See draft-to-publication.bpmn.
Triage published feedback Task_Feedback	Review team and SMEs	content-feedback	Implementer and reader feedback on the published folio, triaged by severity and scope.
File feedback as beans Task_FeedbackBeans	Work plan — beans (shared by humans and agents)	todo-manager content-feedback	Triaged feedback re-enters the work plan as beans, which is how the next cycle knows what it is for.
Retire or archive Task_Retire	Programme manager	content-retire	No more content is planned: deprecate the folio. Post a deprecation notice and timeline, update its status metadata, archive it, point references at any successor, and remove it from active publication. The programme manager decides; retirement archives rather than deletes.

Decisions

Every one of the 1 decision(s) is documented.

decision	what decides it	branches
More content? Gateway_NextCycle	Asked after feedback is filed as beans: is there more content to write for this folio? yes returns to editing and HCI validation; no retires or archives it.	yes → Editing and HCI validation no → Retire or archive