The Workflow at a Glance
Stadium 8 works in three stages. Planning and building overlap so you are never sitting idle while code is being written.
Stage 1: Intake
Section titled “Stage 1: Intake”| What happens | Who |
|---|---|
Claude reads your documentation/ folder and asks a few short questions | Claude |
| Claude produces a project brief summarising what it understood | Claude |
| You review and approve the brief | You approve |
The project brief is the foundation for everything that follows. Nothing gets planned until you’ve agreed it’s correct.
Stage 2: Plan
Section titled “Stage 2: Plan”| What happens | Who |
|---|---|
| Claude proposes the epic list: the major features it plans to build | Claude |
| You approve the epic list | You approve |
| For each epic, Claude proposes the individual stories | Claude |
| You approve each epic’s stories before work starts | You approve |
While Claude is building one epic, you and Claude are planning the next in the foreground. You are never waiting for code to be written.
Stage 3: Build
Section titled “Stage 3: Build”| What happens | Who |
|---|---|
| For each story: Claude writes failing tests, then writes code to make them pass | Claude |
| Automated quality checks run | Automated |
| Claude asks you to open your browser and verify the feature works | You confirm |
| Story is committed; next story begins | Claude |
After all stories in an epic are verified, Claude opens a pull request to main. It merges once all quality gates pass.
Nothing gets built without your approval of the plan. Nothing gets merged without your browser sign-off on each epic.