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The glossary calls the phase a retired sequencing unit; the rehearsal discipline builds its rungs on live phases
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The glossary calls the phase a retired sequencing unit; the rehearsal discipline builds its rungs on live phases
A terminology drift (severity minor) found by the cross-document consistency pass.
- End A:
.abcd/development/brief/glossary/ledger/position.md:25— "Do not call a position a phase (the retired sequencing unit) or a step (a landable piece of a spec); those are delivery vocabulary." - End B:
.abcd/development/intents/disciplines/itd-196-a-capability-is-rehearsed-end-to-end.md:40— "The cumulative rung is what turns a phase into something more than a list of merged intents"
The position entry says a phase is the retired sequencing unit. itd-196's second and third rungs are defined per phase (what the phase can deliver so far, the phase's close), and it calls turning a phase into a runnable demonstration a deliverable. A discipline cannot be enforced against a unit the glossary has retired.
Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 1073.
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| id | iss-2610262042291241 |
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| type | issue |
| lifecycle | open |
| severity | minor |
.abcd/work/issues/open/iss-2610262042291241-the-glossary-calls-the-phase-a-retired.md
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References1
- itd-196A capability is rehearsed end to end before it ships, over a real tree, in a throwaway snapshotrelated
mentions5
- iss-2610262031375064itd-196 runs its cumulative and closing rehearsals per phase, while the mental model retires the phase
- iss-2610262033596296itd-196 keys its cumulative and closing rehearsals on the phase; the reflect surface says the phase was retired and the release is the grain
- iss-2610262040451252itd-196 builds its rehearsal rungs on the phase; the phase glossary entry says the phase is superseded and survives only as history.
- iss-2610262043017551itd-196's cumulative and closing rehearsal rungs are defined over a phase; itd-24 records that phases are retired.
- iss-2610262043161268itd-196 makes the phase its unit of rehearsal, while itd-2609211913453478 retired the phase as a sequencing unit