The phase-negotiator draft depends on authoring new phase docs; the glossary retires the phase, keeping its documents as history.

The phase-negotiator draft depends on authoring new phase docs; the glossary retires the phase, keeping its documents as history.

A sequencing impossibility (severity minor) found by the cross-document consistency pass.

• End A: .abcd/development/brief/glossary/core/phase.md:18 — "Superseded on 2026-09-21 (adr-2609212115255771): the sequencing layer is dependencies plus the lifecycle shelves"
• End B: .abcd/development/intents/drafts/itd-41-phase-negotiator.md:42 — "writing the canonical roadmap/phases/phase-N-*.md files is the product thinker's act"

phase.md records that phases were retired on 2026-09-21: sequencing is now dependencies plus the lifecycle shelves, and the phase documents stay only as history. itd-41's output is proposed phases with Expectation, Milestone and Phase Acceptance sections, which the product thinker writes into new roadmap/phases/phase-N-*.md files. What it produces and depends on is a unit the record no longer has.

Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 986.