Retired lessons · Lesson 1 of 3
How does the Feed work in YAGNI?
Published June 9, 2026 · Updated September 8, 2026
The Feed is where your Teams ask. When work is consequential, a Team stages a Decision: the proposal, the evidence, and its confidence, waiting on the person authorized to answer. Each item renders the real artifact with its own chat, and every action leaves a Receipt proved from the source.
This lesson describes the Feed, a surface YAGNI retired in August 2026. The queue and the record now live in Work, and every decision a work item needs resolves in place on its case file. Start with How does Work and the case file track a work item?.
What is a staged Decision?
The unit of asking. When work carries real consequence, a Team does not do it; it stages a Decision: the proposal itself, the evidence it checked, and how confident it is, waiting on the person authorized to answer that specific ask. Not a notification, not a nag. A question, asked once, with everything you need to answer it in place.
What does “one item, one chat” mean?
Every item in the Feed renders the real artifact, the PR, the draft, the proposed ticket, and carries its own conversation. You approve, edit, decline, or talk it through right there, without jumping to another app to find out what the item is about. If the discussion changes the work, the work updates in the item.
What is a Receipt?
Proof, from the source, of where something actually stands. YAGNI never says “done” on its own say-so: a merged PR shows as merged because GitHub says so, a filed ticket links to the ticket in your tracker, an action shows the actual tool call underneath. Shipped is not done; the Receipt is. That rule is what makes trusting the quiet parts of the record possible.
How do your calls teach the Team?
Every answer is signal. Approvals mark what is safe to repeat, edits show the shape you actually wanted, declines mark boundaries. The pattern accumulates in the Team’s Playbook, and the record of proposals accepted unedited is what earns a Team its next rung on the Ladder. The Feed is where the teaching happens without being a chore.
How is the Feed different from Work?
The Feed is the triage stream of asks; Work is the record. You clear the Feed; you consult Work. A staged Decision is one record across both, so answering it on a case file clears it in the Feed too. Nothing asks you twice.