The glossary retires "phase" for dependencies plus the lifecycle shelves; the configuration chapter still schedules work into "a later phase".

The glossary retires "phase" for dependencies plus the lifecycle shelves; the configuration chapter still schedules work into "a later phase".

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

• End A: .abcd/development/brief/glossary/core/phase.md:18 — "the sequencing layer is dependencies plus the lifecycle shelves"
• End B: .abcd/development/brief/05-internals/03-configuration.md:1215 — "Scheduled sync comes in a later phase (itd-13)."

phase.md is superseded: sequencing is now dependencies plus the lifecycle shelves, and unqualified "phase" carries only the retired sense. 03-configuration still sequences live work by it: scheduled sync comes in a later phase (itd-13), and so do schema migration and user-scope memory.

Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 804.