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Is this a lot of process for a small change?
npx halfcycle It would be if every change got the same steps. That is how most other methods may fail: a copy tweak and a payments integration get identical ceremony, and people stop following it. Halfcycle adapts the process and ceremony depending on the change being done: a light pass for an internal tool, the full review for anything that touches money. You do not configure it.
One size fits nobody.
It would be, if it were one process. A heavy routine on a one-line change is exactly why people abandon methods. The first time a copy tweak needs a design document and three rounds of review, the method gets skipped, and a method skipped once tends to stay skipped.
A downloaded method cannot avoid this, because a folder of documents has no way of knowing what you are changing. It hands a two-screen internal tool and a payments integration the same steps, which is a large part of why following a downloaded process wears thin.
Halfcycle reads your project first. The method is served to you as you work, against the actual state of the project and the change in front of you, so it can size itself. In the same repository, a throwaway internal tool that three colleagues use gets a light pass and gets on with it, while the change that moves customers’ money gets every step of the review. The amount of care follows what is at stake, phase by phase.
None of this is a setting. Nobody picks a level or fills in a form, and you do not need to know the process to be given the right amount of it, which is the point.