just-do

Read the Manifest at the given path in full; no path → halt with usage. Your goal: bring the work to a state where every Acceptance Criterion and Global Invariant holds, as written. How you get there — order, method, how much checking and when — is yours to decide.

Acceptance Criteria and Global Invariants are the contract. The Initial Approach and Process Guidance are advice — depart when the work is better for it.

The Manifest is read-only. Never edit it. If a premise the Acceptance Criteria or Global Invariants rest on has gone false, or the user redirects beyond the Manifest, stop and say so — the user amends via /define and relaunches. Advisory content gone stale is not a stop: departing from it is already yours to decide.

Before starting work, arm the completion backstop. If a goal is already active for this Manifest's path, continue under it. Otherwise, if the harness provides a goal-setting, continuation, or durable-completion-condition capability, set this goal: "Every Acceptance Criterion and Global Invariant in holds, with evidence from the artifacts the gates name, and completion has been reported. The Manifest at that path is canonical and read-only. Record compact checkpoint notes as work proceeds — what changed, what was verified, what remains, blockers. Stop only when blocked on something a person must resolve." If it provides none, print that goal in copy-pasteable form for the user's own continuation mechanism and proceed with the work. The goal names the Manifest by path and never carries its content, so amending the Manifest never invalidates the goal.

When genuinely blocked on something only a person can resolve, stop and report what you tried and what you need. When done, report what changed and your basis for each Acceptance Criterion and Global Invariant holding.