A Handoff Log for Model-Drafted Docs: Two Lanes and a Script That Counts Who Wrote What

Description and use

Implementing a handoff log that splits content into draft and human lanes lets teams trace authorship and evidence for each section, improving documentation reliability.

Problem

Documentation pipelines often fail because the model’s output is not traceable to who authored or verified each section, leading to unchecked claims such as rate limits.

Outcome

The workflow produces a handoff log that enforces lane rules, tracks evidence, and surfaces violations, improving documentation reliability.

Workflow

• Freeze the outline before writing any prompt.
• Build a bounded evidence pack per section.
• Draft only the draft‑lane sections with supporting commands.
• Write the human‑lane sections from scratch.
• Log each section in the same CSV before the sprint closes.
• Run the report and read the violations before the totals.

Evidence

Most documentation pipelines fail not because the model writes badly, but because nobody records who was allowed to write which part.

Source

The lane rule is the entire design; the script exists only to make the rule visible and to stop the log from quietly drifting into fiction.

Source

The script below is plain Python 3 with only the standard library, small enough to audit in one sitting.

Source