2026-08-31 — A capability is rehearsed end to end before it ships, at three

2026-08-31 — A capability is rehearsed end to end before it ships, at three rungs, adopted as itd-196 at the documented-protocol rung on the maintainer's instruction. Per intent, run what that intent delivers; per intent cumulatively, rerun what the PHASE can deliver so far; at the phase's close, one full run against the corpus the phase is meant to serve. Always over a real repository state, always in a throwaway snapshot, and the result recorded whether or not it is good news. Occasioned by the cold-reading workstream, where thirteen intents, six adversarial delta reviews, five fidelity audits and three review rounds on one eval all passed, and the first end-to-end run found in about fifteen minutes that the artefact a reading is handed is around 9.8 MB, roughly 2.45 million tokens, so no reading can be given one, and that three of the four positions receive a byte-identical item set although their definitions state four distinct objects. Routed by the four-piece table: the stance and its gate to a discipline record; no capability, because the rehearsal is a hand-run over verbs that already exist and script-first-mvp puts the documented protocol at this rung; no ADR, because it governs method rather than architecture; no trust rule, because nothing here is a trust boundary. The cumulative rung is the load-bearing one and it is the addition the maintainer made: the size defect belongs to an assembler shipped in an EARLIER phase which passed its own tests, review and audit, and none of the three intents rehearsed at the end delivers anything that hands a reading an artefact on its own, so only the question "what can this phase deliver right now" reaches a defect living in the composition. A phase that carries a cumulative rehearsal is runnable at every point rather than being a list of merged intents, which makes the demonstration a deliverable rather than a by-product. Rejected: a single rehearsal at the phase close, which is what was actually done here and which found the defect one whole phase after the intent that caused it. REACH IS THIS REPOSITORY ONLY; a rule reaching every abcd-managed repo is a bundled default domain compiled into the binary, which is a code change and its own intent.