Athena Digital — The Software Factory

A response to the "Software Factory" case study (PRD-Athena.md): a design for a system that turns a feature spec into a reviewable, deployable pull request across seven products — plus a runnable proof of the core.

Contents

• Software Factory Architecture.md — the full design: spec-driven, skill-composed, eval-gated. Diagrams render at the live site below.
• Live site: https://heilashahidi.github.io/athena-software-factory/ — the architecture rendered with all 11 diagrams.
• poc/ — a runnable vertical slice. node poc/run.mjs takes the Payment Methods brief and produces a reviewable PR with the eval gates and CI actually executing. See poc/README.md.
• OBJECTION-MAP.md — defense prep: the hardest panel objections with concede-reframe-commit answers.
• building-your-own-software-factory-summary.md — the source talk the design draws on.

Run the proof

cd poc
node run.mjs                 # brief -> spec -> plan -> gated stages -> PR (first-run CI green)
node run.mjs --flaky migrate # a stage fails its gate once; bounded retry recovers
node run.mjs --fail api      # a compiles-but-wrong change; the CI gate catches it and escalates

Requires Node ≥ 18 (uses the built-in node:test). No npm install.