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Feature explainers

Each page explains one subsystem completely: how it works end to end (verified against code, file:line), then how the loops collectively built it — incidents and instructive failures included.

The loop in one paragraph

Each loop (lane) is a full autonomous cycle running a fixed spine — intent → scout → triage → tdd → build-planner → build → audit → ship (the literal spine_order of docs/architecture/phase-registry.json; its trailing end entry is a graph sentinel, and retrospective/memo are optional post-ship phases, not spine) — plus goal-type-conditional insertions around tdd/build such as test-amplification, secret-leak-scan, flake-rerun-scan, error-handling-scan, coverage-gate, and adversarial-review (from the registry’s goal recipes; not universal phases). Each lane works in its own git worktree against a weighted task queue. A supervisor dispatches N lanes per wave; a trust kernel binds audit verdicts to exact trees and reserves git commit for evolve ship. Lanes racing to land rebase and re-audit.

Features

FeatureIn one line
Fleet widthHow exactly N concurrent loops are delivered — through benches, walls, and live width changes
Phase pipelineA config-defined machine with a non-negotiable ship floor
Trust kernelEnforcement that survives a lying model — guards, allowlists, audit↔tree binding
Bridge & driversLLM CLIs run like industrial equipment: liveness probes, exhaustion detection, exit contracts
Model routingTiers (fast/balanced/deep), absolute pins, fallback chains, and an advisor on a leash
Quality gatesEGPS predicates, coverage graduation, adversarial audit — what makes PASS mean something
Ship & releaseThe only doors out of the repo — and the binary-deletion defect on the success path
Token telemetryMeasuring what every phase burns — and the silent outage that almost hid it
Queue integrityEvery "done" claim verified at the system that owns the truth
ChronicleTurning yesterday’s lessons into today’s planning context
ResilienceCrashes, cascades, and quota walls as survivable, self-healing states
Reading order — new to the codebase? phase pipelinefleet widthtrust kernel; the rest are independent.
Docs↔code alignment status (2026-07-13 audit) — three verification agents cross-checked these pages’ claims against code. Confirmed-accurate domains: bridge/drivers, CLI health/quota, EGPS. Verified drift was found in: dynamic-phase-routing.md, checkpoint-resume.md, control-flags.md, runtime-reference.md, skills/loop/SKILL.md, CLAUDE.md sandbox line — all queued as weighted inbox items under the docs-code-alignment-2026-07 campaign, plus two behavior defects (inert phase-guard hook; manual-ship binary deletion).

Generated by /evo:explain · verified against code 2026-07-13 (file:line citations) · doc drift found during verification is queued in .evolve/inbox (docs-code-alignment-2026-07 campaign).