Can the system explain and recover from timeouts, retries, bad input, duplicate actions, and malformed model output?
FDE Project Files · Episode 06
Turn the Working Slice Into a Production System
Add the states, validation, retries, versions, regression tests, telemetry, access controls, deployment, and recovery behavior that real users require after the first successful run.
Coming weekly after Episode 1. Target runtime: 50 to 60 minutes.
Questions this episode answers
Make release a reliability decision, not a deployment event.
These are the questions the episode keeps returning to across product, engineering, evaluation, and ownership.
Can the team reproduce which model and rule versions produced a result?
Is release based on evidence rather than the fact that deployment succeeded once?
What you’ll see
What Episode 6 shows.
The walkthrough stays anchored to real artifacts and the decision each one supports.
History, rerun, export, review, recovery, and useful explanation after the first run.
Invalid inputs, unsupported formats, missing context, timeouts, retries, and idempotency.
Model and rule versions attached to runs so results are reproducible.
Known-answer and failure-regression cases that preserve corrections over time.
Errors, latency, model use, cost, unusual outcomes, and user events.
Recovery workflow and explicit evidence for release, remediation, narrowing, or stopping.
Concrete 77 Rules evidence
Deployment is not the same thing as production readiness.
Project File 001 treats malformed output, missing context, timeouts, recovery, regression, and versioning as normal production concerns. A successful release command is only one event inside that operating system.
Review the 77 Rules case boundary and evidence →
Start here
Use the same production map with your own system.
The free Starter Pack gives you the shared production map, role structure, definition-of-done framework, and core checklists used across the series.