Memory, tasks, and work receipts

Memory

Use note for durable facts, constraints, hypotheses, and open topics. Use decision only for an explicitly accepted decision and include its rationale.

Tasks

A task is a bounded piece of requested work. Its status and handoff fields are the current operational state. Updates use an integer version for optimistic concurrency control.

Work receipts

A receipt answers: which harness/session worked, what it completed, which Git state it used, what tests ran, and what should happen next. It is evidence from one execution, not a substitute for the task description.

Classification rule

Keep these categories separate:

• Open Topic: unresolved discussion or alternatives;
• Proposal: suggested solution not yet accepted;
• Decision: explicitly accepted direction;
• Task: work requested within a defined scope.