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Follows the Standard
software profile
Level 1

The page jumps when you switch tabs

A live triage session on an internal engineering platform. The caller is driving the interface and describing problems as he hits them; two developers are listening and changing the product during the session.

Ended:Accepted

The Owner accepts the output. It may be relied upon within the limits the Owner states, and subject to any approval the profile requires.

Caller
Bug.Bug
Developer A
Ready.acknowledge
Developer B
Ready.acknowledge
Caller
In the triage panel, switching between Open and For You shifts the title height and pushes the cards down.
Developer A
Clarify — you want a fixed height on the title row so the page switch doesn't reflow?clarify
Caller
Yes, fixed height on the triage lettering.
Developer A
Heard — lock the title height so Open and For You stop pushing the cards. Developer A, on it.claim
Developer A
Prompting now: give the triage page title row a definite height so the container below doesn't move when switching between the Open and For You tabs.prompting
Developer B
Adder.adder
Developer A
Go ahead.go_ahead
Developer B
The same row is reused on the flight deck, so check that too.
Developer A
Finished. Running.finished
(the session continues on other items)
Developer A
Back with it — fixed height applied, and it holds on the flight deck as well. Preliminary until you look. Check it: click between the two tabs.preliminary
Caller
Working.working
Developer A
Good. Change is up for review.accepted

Five things worth noticing. The clarify was not a claim, so Developer B was still free to own it. The claim carried a restatement, which is where a mishearing would have surfaced. Developer B spoke his own constraint into Developer A's agent rather than handing it over to be relayed, so the whole room heard it go in. The result stayed labelled preliminary until the caller exercised it himself — this profile forbids closing Accepted on a change the caller has not tried. And the caller answered the check out loud rather than nodding.

Real situation, reconstructed dialogue. The bug, the fix, and the exchange are taken from a recorded triage session, and several cues here were genuinely spoken in it — "Ready", "Heard", and "Prompting now" were proposed and used live, which is why the Standard uses them. The remaining cues were not, because the Standard was being invented during that session rather than followed.

Written against Standard v0.6. This example is published as data — read the source or contribute one of your own.