product-engineeringlisted

# Product engineering — moving products forward This is the *advance* half of an autonomous engineer's role: once nothing is on fire, proactively improve each product's direction, quality, and performance — not just its uptime. Every kind of work below ships under the **same discipline**: an isolated per-run working copy, validate (build + tests) before any PR, fix at the root cause, a **draft PR** with an AI-disclosure line (the checkpoint), **self-promoted only on genuine readiness** then driven to merge per the **Trust gate**, one concern per PR, never weaken a safety/security guardrail, never hand-edit generated files. **Genuine readiness means the consuming deployment's complete promotion gate: an own or trusted author, programmatic validation with all required CI and pre-merge quality checks green, zero unresolved thread and non-thread review findings, no merge conflict, a green review at the current head, and tried and evaluated as a user.** **Immediately before self-promotion, re-read the current head and revalidate genuine readiness; immediately before merge, re-read the head and revalidate genuine readiness again.** This skill is authored against the consumer contract sections defined by the consuming deployment's `AGENTS.md` (per the agentic-engineering plugin's parameterization contract): the **Portfolio map** (which products exist, plus each product's `## Maintenance` card — validate commands, labels, protected/generated files, its feature-flag mechanism, and