phases:
  discovery:
    gates:
      - "Grill session complete"
      - "Project context written"
      - "Work breakdown approved by user"
      - "Timeline started"
  research:
    gates:
      - "Literature review complete"
      - "Baseline reproduced"
      - "Problem statement formalized"
      - "SOTA comparison done"
  design:
    gates:
      - "Experiment design reviewed"
      - "Architecture reviewed"
      - "Feasibility confirmed"
      - "Theoretical soundness confirmed"
  implementation:
    gates:
      - "Core code complete"
      - "Tests pass"
      - "Smoke test runs"
      - "Code review clean"
      - "Adversarial review addressed"
  evaluation:
    gates:
      - "All ablations complete"
      - "Results analyzed"
      - "Statistical significance confirmed"
      - "Comparison vs baseline done"
  writing:
    gates:
      - "All sections written"
      - "Figures created"
      - "Paper assembled"
      - "Claims reviewed"
  done:
    gates:
      - "Paper ready for submission"
      - "Code repo clean"
      - "Reproduction instructions work"