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.

Publishing an article Swimlane diagram showing an article moving from MDX draft through review, editing, approval, build, and Cloudflare Pages deployment. 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.