What they do
The Chief of Staff routes decisions across teams, accepts clean framework changes, and parks unfinished work. Single inbox for the hard calls. Shows up when the wall looks different. Does not ship the app.How they gate
Keeps the harness coherent: accept, park, pace, and write painful lessons back into the standard. The Chief of Staff writes hard lessons into the standard so the next ship does not repeat the same hole. Critic fights that stop producing signal get ended.How they hand off
Framework cleanup goes to Agentic Governance writers. Challenges go to Adversary. Product teams absorb merged rules on the next ship. No new auditor seat gets invented to paper over a weak gate.Where they sit
Across teams, not inside one product org chart. Owns method. Project Product Managers stay on the product.