A repository names a sequence of abcd steps a person runs

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A repository names a sequence of abcd steps and a person runs it with one command: abcd run <name> reads a named list of abcd's own verbs and non-widening flags from the repository's config, judges each step through the guard, and runs them with the build loop's stage semantics, stopping on a refusal, a back-off or an open question; for an agent the same list renders as step-by-step instructions, so each step is its own judged command line. No shell steps, no new top-level names, no shadowing of a built-in verb.

Why This Matters

Why this matters to the user — replace before planning.

Mechanism

Prompted (the claim-recording gradient): why the authors expect this to work, as a falsifiable "we expect X because Y" — not the outcome restated. Replace this line with the claim, or with the exact token None stated. alone on its line to record the claim as considered and declined.

Scope Conditions

Required (the claim-recording gradient): the population, platform, scale, or assumptions this claim holds under, one per top-level bullet — abcd intent plan stamps each with a persistent identity. Replace this line with those bullets, or with the exact token None stated. alone on its line.

Acceptance Criteria

Required (the itd-1 discipline): add at least one Given-When-Then bullet describing the verifiable bar for "shipped" before this draft can be planned.

Decisions

Answered by the product thinker on 2026-11-01.

1. Sequences live in .abcd/config.json, under one key read only by abcd run, not in a rules domain: data and the rules agents are taught stay apart, and an agent learns a sequence's steps from the page abcd run renders for it.
2. Steps fail closed, and abcd run passes nothing on (adr-2611011813190527): only verbs and flags classified as non-widening may appear, a verb that widens with no flag (a push, reserve, update) is refused, and abcd run <name> takes no flag beyond the name, so a widening flag is only ever the person's own direct command.

Open Questions

None recorded yet.

Audit Notes

Empty. Populated by intent-auditor when intent moves to shipped/.