📖What it means

The single place any status change is allowed to happen. Status is the source of truth for where work stands, so raw status writes are banned and every transition goes through the one router. Watchdogs may only raise alerts — they never move status themselves.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Watchdog", "distinction": "The router MOVES status; a watchdog only observes and alerts. A watchdog that moved status would make the router meaningless."}, {"term": "Gate", "distinction": "A gate decides whether a transition is allowed; the router performs it."}]

📖Also called

- the one status writer
- state machine router

📖Filed under

Category: work.

Service: Build Initiatives.