Sentinel — Brand Identity
Brand identity — Sentinel by Aftergraph
Section titled “Brand identity — Sentinel by Aftergraph”Wedge guardrail: Sentinel turns pull requests into merge-ready verdicts. First wedge: CLI review on exact HEAD → SHIP / DO NOT SHIP verdict with cited evidence → GitHub App.
Name: Sentinel by Aftergraph
Section titled “Name: Sentinel by Aftergraph”- Sentinel = the guard that never sleeps. It watches every merge, verifies the exact commit, and only then speaks. Authority through vigilance, not volume.
- by Aftergraph = sub-brand pattern: the product inherits Aftergraph’s verification reputation while staying separable if it ever spins out.
- The name was already in use internally for the independent-verifier role — the product grows out of a real function, not a naming session.
Rejected alternatives
Section titled “Rejected alternatives”- Verdict by Aftergraph — sharp but narrow: names only the judgment, not the watching. Kept as the verdict-card feature name instead.
- Overlook by Aftergraph — dropped: “overlook” means both supervise and miss. Fatal ambiguity for a verification product.
- Skjold by Aftergraph — strong Danish shield metaphor, weak internationally. Reserved for a future DK-market edition if needed.
Short verdicts, cited evidence, no adjectives. “DO NOT SHIP — 2 findings on exact HEAD a3f9c1d: (1) unauthenticated delete route, routes/admin.mjs:41; (2) migration without rollback, db/migrate_014.sql.” Never “looks good overall!” Never praise without a cited check.
Visual direction (placeholder until design sprint)
Section titled “Visual direction (placeholder until design sprint)”Monospace SHAs, green/red verdict pills, evidence links as first-class elements (file:line, not prose). Dark-on-light, high contrast — the artifact must read as a certificate, not a chat message.
Source: Aftergraph/sentinel@beececfb4885d8055cc6694e8979b47759a212a4 docs/brand-identity.md.md — verbatim, pinned, no reinterpretation.