Trust is evidence, not intention.
The universal standard for governed collaboration
pqdx turns the Piqued Manifesto's ↗ principles into testable conditions. Five gates that must always pass. Three conformance levels that make trust measurable, not self-reported. A behavioral specification that tells AI systems exactly what PM compliance requires.
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2Software
3Healthcare
4Education
The protocol as written. No domain overlay.
State file
Every governed project lives in a single .state.yaml file.
compass.state.yaml
schema_version: "pqdx/2.0.0" # ─── Identity ────────────────────── identity: project: compass type: product blast_radius: high owner: Sarah Chen status: active # Internal knowledge management platform for Meridian Consulting # ─── Active milestone ─────────────── milestones: - id: v1.1 name: "v1.1 — Search & Discovery" status: in-progress
The five gates
Five conditions that must be true before any consequential work product advances. Not guidelines. Not targets. Gates — binary pass or fail.
The Compass project
Real data from the canonical fixture. Every pqdx feature, every lifecycle stage, every evidence pattern — demonstrated in one governed project.
Identity
project:compass
entity:Meridian Consulting
type:product
tier:standard
blast_radius:high
owner:Sarah Chen
Milestones
v1.0complete
v1.0 — Core Knowledge Platform
6 done · 8 total
v1.1in-progress
v1.1 — Search & Discovery
2 done · 8 total
Decisions
DR-001
acceptedAdopt PostgreSQL with pgvector for semantic search over dedicated vector database
DR-002
proposedImplement AI-assisted article summarization using Claude API for search result snippets
DR-003
superseded → DR-001Use Elasticsearch for all search functionality
Compass is a fictional knowledge management platform demonstrating every feature of pqdx/2.0.0.