The glossary keeps bare "the loop" for the record loop and says abcd never owns a run loop; the agent catalog uses bare "the loop" for abcd's own implement loop.

The glossary keeps bare "the loop" for the record loop and says abcd never owns a run loop; the agent catalog uses bare "the loop" for abcd's own implement loop.

A terminology drift (severity minor) found by the cross-document consistency pass.

• End A: .abcd/development/brief/glossary/core/loop.md:38 — "abcd never owns the run loop."
• End B: .abcd/development/brief/05-internals/01-agents.md:40 — "the loop names each in turn and records the"

loop.md registers three senses, keeps bare "the loop" for the record loop, wants the others named in full, and says abcd never owns the run loop because an adapter supplies it. 01-agents uses bare "the loop" for the implement loop that build and drain run in abcd's own binary. That is a sense the glossary does not register and says abcd does not have.

Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 797.

Grounds

• declined: Closed in the 2026-10-27 triage (dcn-2610271112330536) as a duplicate of iss-2610262037018200. End A is again loop.md 'abcd never owns the run loop'. The cited 01-agents sentence names 'the implement loop's validate stage' just before 'the loop names each', so the bare word is anaphoric, not a drift of its own.