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DOCUMENTATION Minimalist Entrepreneur
Autonomous SDLC Specification — AGSTACK Framework

Minimalist Entrepreneurship
Deterministic Product Lifecycle

Operationalizing the Minimalist Entrepreneur methodology into an immutable, multi-stage Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) executed by agent-spine. Eliminates speculative product bloat through structured listening, customer pre-validation, lean scaffolding, and human-in-the-loop signoff gates.

The Autonomous Minimalist DAG

Instead of building speculative multi-month roadmaps, the Minimalist Entrepreneur workflow enforces milestone progression where every transition is deterministically validated before the next stage can initialize:

flowchart LR
    CD["01 Community Discovery\n• Niche listening\n• Recurring friction"] --> PV["02 Problem Validation\n• Willingness-to-pay\n• Metric validation"]
    PV --> MVP["03 Build Minimal MVP\n• Lean scaffolding\n• Zero feature bloat"]
    MVP --> CSG{"04 Customer Gate\n• Human-in-the-Loop\n• Founder signoff"}
    CSG -->|Approved| PS["05 Processize & Scale\n• Runbook automation\n• Deterministic crons"]

    classDef stageNode fill:#0d1117,stroke:#06b6d4,stroke-width:1.5px,color:#f8fafc;
    classDef gateNode fill:#1e1b4b,stroke:#a855f7,stroke-width:1.5px,color:#f8fafc;
    class CD,PV,MVP,PS stageNode;
    class CSG gateNode;

Lifecycle Stages & Execution Bounds

01. Community Discovery

Agent Node

Identifies underserved developer or operational communities. Using bounded vector queries in agent-brain, the agent actively parses bug trackers, GitHub issues, and developer forums to isolate high-frequency manual friction points without hallucinating unverified demand.

02. Problem Validation

Agent Node

Calculates concrete ROI metrics. Confirms willingness to pay and ensures the proposed solution saves tangible developer hours or cloud infrastructure spend. Synthesizes concise problem statements bounded strictly under 500 context tokens.

03. Build Minimal MVP

Agent Node

Scaffolds the single leanest functional implementation that solves the core validated problem. Strictly enforces AGSTACK invariants: pure production code, zero conversational comment slop, and atomic state transitions sealed with SHA-256 proofs.

04. Customer Signoff Gate

Approval Gate

Human-in-the-Loop milestone boundary. The engine pauses execution, serializes the complete state snapshot, and awaits explicit founder/stakeholder signoff confirming customer commitment and pricing alignment prior to release.

05. Processize & Scale

Agent Node

Generates automated operational runbooks, deterministic cron scripts, and monitoring probes. Transitions verified product logic into maintenance mode with continuous regression safeguards in .verify/.

Executing via agent-spine

The workflow is registered in the Autonomic Registry and can be dispatched deterministically using the agent-spine CLI:

# Execute the minimalist entrepreneur workflow DAG
agent-spine run --workflow minimalist-entrepreneur

# Resume after founder customer signoff gate approval
agent-spine resume --run-id run_me_91a0fbf --node ProcessizeAndScale

# Inspect immutable milestone receipts
agent-spine status --run-id run_me_91a0fbf