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- Replaced Relationship to Superpowers with Why Turnstone section
highlighting Turnstone's governance surface as the engine's native
enforcement layer.
- Mermaid diagrams: changed from LR (horizontal) to TB (vertical)
in both README and architecture.md for readability.
- Superpowers retained in credits as prior art with a shorter,
more precise acknowledgment.
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Tell it what you want to build, share any material you already have, and it produces a complete Turnstone-native package — project, persona, skills, templates — through a gated pipeline:
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```mermaid
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flowchart LR
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flowchart TB
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A[Intent] --> B[Orient]
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B --> C[Collect]
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C --> D[Clarify]
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Process Engine is domain-neutral in package structure, artifact-specific, and runtime-aware. It's been exercised on Etsy store management, supplement product listings, incident response, employee onboarding, database backup operations, and financial planning advisories — not just software engineering.
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## Relationship to Superpowers
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## Why Turnstone
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[Superpowers](https://github.com/obra/superpowers) gives coding agents a mature, ready-to-use software-development methodology — plan, test, review, complete. Process Engine operates one level higher: it is **a system for designing, testing, and maintaining custom agent operating packages**, of which a software-development methodology is one possible output.
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Process Engine runs on Turnstone because Turnstone's governance surface is what the engine produces. Every generated package includes governance objects — prompt policy and advisory judge rules — that Turnstone enforces mechanically. The engine's "operator is the gate" philosophy maps directly to Turnstone's native approval surfaces.
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Superpowers is a finished methodology; Process Engine is a methodology factory. The two are complementary: Superpowers disciplines the code; Process Engine disciplines the package that disciplines the code.
| Claude | Commercial harness — no governance layer |
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You don't need Turnstone to use Process Engine, but you need Turnstone for the governance wiring. The engine's prompt policy and advisory judge rules are Turnstone-native artifacts that enforce the gates mechanically — the model generates packages; Turnstone owns the guardrails.
-**Format standard:**[agentskills/agentskills](https://github.com/agentskills/agentskills) (Apache-2.0 / CC-BY-4.0) — Agent Skills open format
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-**Prior art & inspiration:**[Superpowers](https://github.com/obra/superpowers) — a mature software-development methodology for coding agents
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-**Prior art & inspiration:**[Superpowers](https://github.com/obra/superpowers) — a mature software-development methodology that applies a related evidence-first philosophy to coding agents. Process Engine operates one level higher: creating and qualifying the agent packages that contain methodologies like that.
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