Start with the consequences
What happens if this breaks?
For a disposable personal app, describe what you want, try it, and keep chatting. As people depend on the result, add checks that protect their time, data, and trust. Shaka is for the point where a change deserves a tested, reviewed pull request.
Just for me
I can recreate it.
A disposable personal experiment
Chat, try it, iterate. You do not need pull requests or a test suite yet.
Friends or coworkers
Others lose time.
A shared tool with saved work
Check important user journeys, protect saved data, and have a recovery path.
Customers depend on it
Failures damage trust.
An application people rely on
Automate critical checks. Add targeted review, monitoring, and rollback.
Critical service
Minutes cause major losses.
An outage can cost thousands a minute
Set reliability targets. Stage releases, test failures, and practice recovery.
These examples are only a guide. A payroll tool used by five people may need stronger safeguards than a demo tried by thousands. Data sensitivity, recovery difficulty, and the change itself matter alongside audience size.
When a change deserves a tested, reviewed pull request, get started with Shaka. See PR verification for the evidence to collect.