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Keep Tempo for design while one layer lands in the repo

You are not ready for a big bang this week — and that is fine. The editor can keep serving design work while one layer lands in the repo: tokens, a screen package, or the sync rule. Each piece gets a way back before the next one starts. This page is that staged path, not a cut-sync weekend.

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In plain words

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A transition from Tempo means the editor stays useful for design while you move one layer at a time — tokens, a screen package, or sync policy. Both sides can run for a while. You can undo each piece before you start the next. You are done with a part when that piece answers from the repo and the editor is only a backup for that piece.

Why staged is its own page

Big-bang cuts scare teams that still need the editor live

Migrate and get-off assume you are ready to cut. Many teams are not. They need design safe while one layer moves to packages.

  • Moving everything at once because it “feels cleaner”

    Clean on paper. Messy when tokens, screens, and sync all flip together. Do one part, make sure it works, then start the next.

  • No written reverse for the layer you just moved

    If you cannot put that part back on the editor path in a known time, you do not have a transition. You have a gamble.

  • Two owners on the same screen with no rule

    A design tweak and an eng patch that nobody reconciles. Drift is how “we already fixed that” returns next week.

  • Sync still writes into the release branch

    Sandbox the pipe first. Production branches accept reviewed PRs — not automatic editor pushes.

The dual-track order

Keep design live, move one layer, reverse it, then pick the next

Eng track hardens packages first. Editor stays for exploration until parity is proved.

01

Freeze critical sync into the release branch

Sandbox sync okay; production merges need review.

02

Land tokens or one screen package beside the editor

Both can answer for that layer.

03

Prove reverse in writing

Known time to put the layer back.

04

Document who owns which track this week

No silent dual edits on the same screen.

How to

How to transition off Tempo sync without downtime

Run both tracks. Undo each layer before the next. Keep users safe.

  1. Step 01

    Name the first layer

    Tokens, one package, or sync policy — not all three.

  2. Step 02

    Stand the repo track beside the editor path

    Both can answer for that layer.

  3. Step 03

    Prove reverse in writing

    Known time to put the layer back.

  4. Step 04

    Cut the layer when parity holds

    Watch. Support knows both tracks.

  5. Step 05

    Pick the next layer only after the reverse window closes

    Finish one move before you start another.

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What does a staged transition from Tempo look like?

Sandbox sync on release → land tokens or one package → prove parity → require review → retire editor-publish for that layer. Reversible until the final sync kill-switch.

Can we dual-track design edits and eng packages without downtime?

Yes — allow editor work for exploration while production merges only through reviewed packages, then tighten when the look matches. Share-link and prod stay separate until gates hold.

Who owns what while design stays in the editor?

Write it down: which screens designers may still emit, which packages eng owns, who can arm sync. Unowned dual edits are how drift returns.

When is a Tempo transition the wrong page?

When you already need a full practiced exit this week, or when you only need a wrap before strangers. Then migrate, get-off, or harden is the honest page.

Keep design. Move ownership one layer at a time.

Bring the sync map and the packages you already have. We move each part with a way to undo it before we tighten the next gate.

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