Operating Principle

Do not create final page text or final assets during the definition phases. Capture subjects, required information, style direction, layout, transitions, inventory, and gaps first. Anything ambiguous should be marked for interactive user direction.

All implementation-related ideas must be written down and considered as part of Hermes/process planning. Codex should not directly implement those ideas unless the user explicitly moves the work into an implementation phase.

Before any Hermes worker/process is launched for a page, the coordinator must know:

• page subject
• minimum scope: what must be explained, seen, or surfaced
• required information list
• known available artifacts/elements
• missing artifacts/text
• layout/style/transition direction
• file ownership and branch/process ownership
• unresolved ambiguities requiring user direction