Swimlane · Diagram Design

Publishing an article

Four actors, seven steps, three handoffs. The step each person owns lives in their lane — arrows crossing lanes are where coordination happens.

AUTHOR REVIEWER EDITOR CI / CD HANDOFF REVISE DEPLOY TRIGGER Draft MDX src/content/… Open PR gh pr create Review content fact-check · voice Polish copy style · line edits Approve merge squash · main Build astro build Deploy cloudflare pages LEGEND Step Focal outcome Within-lane step Revision loop Critical handoff

THE HEADLINE

The deploy trigger is the risky edge

Every other step lives inside one person's head. The Editor→CI/CD handoff is where automation takes over and humans lose the ability to undo — hence coral.

One owner per step

  • No step crosses two lanes
  • Handoffs are arrows, not shared steps
  • Dashed arrow = revision detour

Uneven step counts are fine

The Reviewer lane has one step; CI/CD has two. Lanes don't need to match — they exist to make ownership unambiguous.