A software methodology meets the dog treats market

HELIX is a documentation methodology I maintain for software projects: artifact types, templates and modes that carry a project from a product vision through framing, design and delivery, driven by an agent skill. Its first two stages, discover and frame, claim to be about understanding a problem before committing to a solution. That claim shouldn’t depend on the problem being software. So I tested it in the least charitable way I could think of: an empty repository, a fresh install, and a competitive analysis of the dog treats market. ...

September 30, 2026 · 5 min · Erik LaBianca ·  agent-drafted