Resource-Aware Pilot Review Checklist

Goal

Provide a short review checklist for bounded real-world pilots in the 1.2 Resource-Aware Operations track.

Before the pilot

• The slice is small enough to review without benchmark infrastructure
• The slice has a visible resource-aware pressure (context drag, retries, handoff burden, or runtime-fit doubt)
• Local trust / hosting posture is explicit
• The team knows what should remain project-local

During the pilot

• Slice shape is explicit
• Planning depth is explicit
• Runtime fit is explicit
• At least one readiness review is performed
• Context growth or retry growth is noted when it appears
• Handoff quality is reviewed if a boundary is crossed

After the pilot

• The pilot can explain whether the framework helped earlier than intuition alone
• The result is classified as reinforced, no-change, example-needed, guidance-refinement, or future-benchmark-signal
• Project-local rules are separated from framework-level learnings
• Any follow-up recommendation stays proportional to the evidence

Healthy stop line

If the pilot conclusion starts requiring:

• benchmark scoring
• auto-routing
• vendor ranking as core truth
• learning-layer machinery

then the pilot should stop and record that the 1.2 evidence is not yet mature enough for that leap.