Verification principle. Break work into small units that each end in a verifiable state, check each before the next, and order delivery so the sequence proves itself to a reviewer.
Applies to multi-step work (sweeps, migrations, runs of similar edits) and to how you stack commits and PRs. The third clause is the distinctive one: sequencing is treated as a review affordance, not just an execution tactic, which is what connects it to the stacked-PR playbooks and to pstack-show-me-your-work.
See Also
- pstack-poteto-mode — indexes this principle inline and reads the index at task start.
- pstack — the twenty-three-principle set this belongs to.