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  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20261011-9e4b62c5",
  "url": "/knowledge/replenish-from-a-real-downstream-signal",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0172",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Replenish from a real downstream signal",
  "summary": "A busy supplier can still create an idle mountain.",
  "kind": "principle",
  "body": "Agree what the next step needs, how much, and when it can accept it. Use that request and its available capacity to authorize new work; upstream free time alone is not a demand signal.",
  "limits": [
    "Some work has long lead times or required reserves. Pull does not mean refusing all advance preparation or keeping no buffer."
  ],
  "topics": [],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "lei-pull-production"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "Pull production authorizes upstream replenishment in response to downstream need rather than producing solely to keep a resource busy.",
      "source_id": "lei-pull-production",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Claim basis: professional_convention. Claim limit: The office example is an adaptation; demand, capacity and buffer design still matter.\nSource access: selected_html_passages; accessed on: 2026-09-17; inspected sections: [\"Definition and replenishment signal\"].\nAgent scope review, 2026-10-11: LEI pull-production definition supports downstream need as the authorization signal. The office example and available-capacity check are an explicit adaptation; buffers remain possible.",
      "locator": "Definition"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "One step keeps producing output that the next step cannot yet use."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Some work has long lead times or required reserves. Pull does not mean refusing all advance preparation or keeping no buffer."
  ],
  "example": "A reviewer has two free slots but needs no new draft this week. Spare capacity alone does not authorize the writing team to create two more.",
  "check": "Can you identify the signal that justifies producing this next item now?",
  "published_at": "2026-10-11T18:15:00Z",
  "review": {
    "kind": "agent",
    "label": "Agent editorial and scoped evidence review",
    "reviewed_at": "2026-10-11T18:12:50Z"
  },
  "editorial_overlay": null,
  "editorial": null,
  "notices": [],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "lei-pull-production",
      "title": "Pull Production",
      "url": "https://www.lean.org/lexicon-terms/pull-production/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0172",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0173",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/make-queue-overtaking-an-explicit-exception"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-RESEARCH-WORK-FLOW",
      "title": "Help work finish instead of merely keeping it busy",
      "url": "/collections/help-work-finish-instead-of-merely-keeping-it-busy"
    }
  ],
  "topic_hubs": [],
  "solution_packs": []
}