Beyond the five stages
The five stages are the framework’s own sequential core: each takes in what the one before it produced, and hands on to the next. These four pages sit alongside or after that core, not inside it. Certification alignment runs as a parallel workstream, rating already-finished chapters rather than producing them. Delivery is real tooling that turns a finished chapter into something a reader downloads or a venue accepts, outside the framework entirely. Operating practices are cross-cutting: they describe how a run is actually operated, underneath the stages rather than inside any one of them. The last page closes the guide out by tracing the running example through everything above in a single thread. What evidence backs this guide’s own claims is stated on Evidence and limitations, which now sits under The Case for Rapid Upskilling.
Pages in this section
- Certification alignment: rates a finished chapter’s own content against a certification’s published skill list.
- Delivery: turns a finished chapter into a slide deck, infographics, a compiled volume, or a submission-formatted manuscript. Two further pages: slides and infographics, publishing.
- Operating practices: five practices that apply across every stage. Five further pages: agent orchestration patterns, run logging and dashboards, provenance and verification discipline, prompt-injection screening, hand-off documents and sessions.
- Worked example, start to finish: the running example traced through every stage and workstream above, in one continuous thread.
Next: Certification alignment.