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session

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A session is the unit of work for the /abcd:intent grill sub-verb, which is a design target, not shipped: abcd intent registers no grill sub-verb, so nothing that ships today runs a session in this sense. The glossary README's grill section records the design. Two things ship instead. One is the planning interview: the /abcd:intent plugin page runs it with the person present, and the interview sub-verb runs it in a plain Terminal. Both forms ask one thing at a time. The other is the record-grill leg of /abcd:ideate's admission gauntlet, which reads the record and asks no one anything. Neither writes a PRD. In the design, a session begins when the human runs the command and ends when the PRD is written. Within a session, the oracle asks Socratic questions (up to 12 total, 3 per round), the human answers, the oracle sharpens terms and captures glossary updates inline, then silently synthesises a PRD.

This term is bounded to the interview context. Do not import it into HTTP/auth contexts or use it generically — the abcd interview session is a distinct concept with its own lifecycle.

When to use

Use "session" when describing the lifecycle of a single designed /abcd:intent grill invocation. A session is atomic — it either completes (PRD written) or is abandoned (no PRD artifact).

When NOT to use

Never use "user session", "login session", "auth session", or "HTTP session" to mean this concept. Those terms carry authentication and web-protocol connotations that are orthogonal to the grill interview. Within abcd documentation, unqualified "session" in the interview context means the designed grill exchange, never one of the interviews that ship.

Lifecycle

Phase	Condition
Starts when	`/abcd:intent grill <target>` is invoked by the human (design target)
Ends when	PRD synthesis completes and `prd.md` is written to disk (design target)

Examples

"In the design, a session takes Carol through three rounds of Socratic questioning for an intent."
"A session that is abandoned before PRD synthesis produces no artefact."

record families — the one page that maps the record families and how they relate
embark — the opening move that initiates a session
intent — the primary target of a grill session

Frontmatter

term	session
bounded_context	interview
status	stable
aliases	grill session, interview session
definition	One complete interactive exchange between a human and the abcd grill sub-verb, a design target that does not ship, spanning all rounds of Socratic questioning through PRD synthesis for a single intent or brief section.