Threshold-Based Development

Purpose: In NOX, we only write what's true. Threshold-based development begins not with planning, but with recognition: a moment of truth, captured in structure. This means we start with the date and the author. Then we answer what we know next: the context and purpose of the document.

Users tend to orient in one of two ways:

"Who am I? Where am I?"
"What is my purpose? What do I need to do?"

NOX honors both. The threshold is the first thing you know. That becomes the seed for momentum. A basic NOX header, for example, captures time and authorship:

date_created: "2025-07-09"
author: Alex Catalano

From here, the question "what" gets answered in two parts: the title and the doctype, forming a full header like:

title: "NOX: Threshold-Based Development"
date_created: "2025-07-09"
author: Alex Catalano
doctype: stub overview

Status: This concept is under development. It will expand into a full guide as part of NOX 2.0.

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Threshold-Based Development
Semantic Models
Lifeboat System (coming soon)
Glossary (coming soon)
Matrix Diagram (coming soon)

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