01Fast human entry
Operator Console
Re-enter from the latest compiled surface, choose one bounded move, leave evidence, and preserve a restart pointer.
Small doctrine, explicit authority
Six surfaces are enough to navigate the current system.
02State, views, VACChain, Endpoint
Authority & Concepts
Separates governed state from conceptual vocabulary and published views without recreating a second data model.
03Coherent generation
Office
Control Tower snapshot, typed work, Staff preparation, Principal surface, execution packets, and reviewed reentry.
04Bounded moves
Execution
Current work kinds, operator-contract boundary, stop rules, evidence patterns, and optional craft language.
05Reusable names, lightweight prose
Motif Memory
Keeps the main operator and work motifs visible while exhaustive reusable vocabularies live in machine-readable registries.
06Cadence lives elsewhere
Weekly Timing
Blocks remain bounded here; detailed horizons, Mon/Wed/Fri carry, 14-day frames, and weekly cadence belong to Weekly Ops Governance.
Operating cycle
Authority stays upstream; evidence comes back.
Boundary
This manual explains meaning; it does not become live state.
Control Tower and Office own current semantics. Weekly Governance owns timing heuristics. Frontier and other UIs render published views.