1QueueRank discoveries, friction, failures, and curiosity ideas
2InvestigateActively reproduce the opportunity locally
3ConstructBuild one bounded external-worktree candidate
4TestTargeted, public, held-out, invariant, and latency evidence
5Synthetic soakRepeated isolated probes: low 15m · moderate 60m
6ActivateDurable fast-forward, hidden restart, and loaded-revision verification
7Runtime probationEight hours of live health checks with automatic additive rollback
8FinalizeMark implemented only after verified runtime probation