Expands the communications section from a list of what worked into the actual convention: the
directory's lifetime and the rule that anything durable must move to docs/ before the merge;
numbering, parity as attribution, non-consecutive numbers; slugs; reply-in-a-new-file and the
one case where editing your own is right; referring to commits by sha because three remotes
carried the same branch names.
Records what a handoff must contain, with the verified/assumed split named as the rule that
carried the most weight — a handoff confident about something untested is worse than none,
because the reader builds on it. Adds a skeleton to copy.
Documents termination as the four attempts it actually took, ending at the only checkable
version: the exchange pauses when no open item is actionable by a participant. Adds the third
state, deferred-with-a-reason, since a two-state protocol forces an agent to lie in one
direction. Notes that a stall must be detectable because the human spotted both before either
agent did.
Adds a review-discipline section — check the enforcement rather than the description, run it
against a real machine, a check never seen failing is not evidence, distrust vacuous passes,
expect stacked bugs, distrust "inert today", and look at which way unknown resolves. Adds a
failure-mode table to pattern-match against, and the git hygiene that bit us, including
merge-verify-then-delete, which I got wrong.
Closes with session economics, an ordered list of what to build, and the one thing not to
automate: agents may coordinate on what is true and must not decide what is permitted.
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