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Phase carry-over discipline

Friction surfaced in phase N's verification round becomes phase N+1's input

Status
PUBLISHED
Priority
P1
Rank
PROCEDURE
Cited
Updated
2026-05-14

Assertion

Friction surfaced in phase N's verification round becomes phase N+1's input. The closing phase is not extended to absorb it.

Why

Extending the closing phase to swallow friction is the failure mode that cost the source project the most clarity to discover.

Mechanism

Triage each item as closed (trivial), in-budget (justified carry), or deferred (assigned M(N+1).x.y in the same commit as the phase-close decision doc).

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