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Overview

The things the loop passes around, and the shape of the loop that passes them.

The nouns

one mark per thing, reused everywhere
IntentA person's idea, in prose — vague, unstructured
Task issueOne unit of work, carrying its reasoning and its dependencies
TrancheOne milestone with its task issues under it
BriefThe whole work order: exact files, exact tests, when to stop and ask
Pull requestCode, with the brief that produced it riding inside
VerdictA review's findings, posted as a comment
Provenance recordWhat shipped, from what intent, reviewed by whom — kept on the merged PR
RetrospectiveWhat completed, what was dropped, what carries forward

The loop

each row is the life of one task — many run at once, then the batch is closed out