{
  "_comment": "Per-company orchestrator status file schema. Written by company-orchestrator at {company_dir}/orchestrator-status.json. Read by team-lead for live progress aggregation. Single-writer pattern: only the owning company-orchestrator writes this file; team-lead is read-only for it.",
  "_writer": "company-orchestrator (this company only)",
  "_readers": ["team-lead", "human operator (debugging)"],
  "_update_points": [
    "After pre-flight checkpoint scan (initial state)",
    "After each stage completes (stage status, updated_at)",
    "At completion (status=completed|partial|failed, completed_at)"
  ],

  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "rank": "001",
  "team_name": "stock-analysis-202605281430",
  "started_at": "2026-05-28T14:32:11Z",
  "updated_at": "2026-05-28T14:48:03Z",
  "completed_at": null,
  "status": "running",
  "_status_values": "running | completed | partial | failed",

  "wave_state": {
    "wave_1": "completed",
    "wave_2": "running",
    "wave_3": "pending",
    "wave_4": "n/a",
    "_values": "completed | running | pending | fail | n/a"
  },

  "stages": {
    "5":  { "status": "completed", "started_at": "2026-05-28T14:32:11Z", "completed_at": "2026-05-28T14:38:02Z", "file": "stage5.md",  "checkpointed": false },
    "6":  { "status": "running",   "started_at": "2026-05-28T14:42:00Z", "completed_at": null,                  "file": null,         "checkpointed": false },
    "7":  { "status": "completed", "started_at": "2026-05-28T14:32:11Z", "completed_at": "2026-05-28T14:39:18Z", "file": "stage7.md",  "checkpointed": false },
    "8":  { "status": "pending",   "started_at": null, "completed_at": null, "file": null, "checkpointed": false },
    "9":  { "status": "completed", "started_at": "2026-05-28T14:32:11Z", "completed_at": "2026-05-28T14:36:55Z", "file": "stage9.md",  "checkpointed": false },
    "10": { "status": "pending",   "started_at": null, "completed_at": null, "file": null, "checkpointed": false },
    "11": { "status": "pending",   "started_at": null, "completed_at": null, "file": null, "checkpointed": false },
    "12": { "status": "pending",   "started_at": null, "completed_at": null, "file": null, "checkpointed": false },
    "13": { "status": "checkpointed", "started_at": null, "completed_at": null, "file": "stage13.md", "checkpointed": true },
    "14": { "status": "pending",   "started_at": null, "completed_at": null, "file": null, "checkpointed": false },
    "15": { "status": "n/a",       "started_at": null, "completed_at": null, "file": null, "checkpointed": false }
  },

  "verification": {
    "wave_1": "ok",
    "wave_2": null,
    "wave_3": null,
    "wave_4": null,
    "_values": "ok | warn:{reason} | fail:{reason} | null (not yet run)"
  },

  "retries": {
    "_comment": "Per-stage retry counter. Max 2 retries per stage before marking failed.",
    "stage_8": 0
  }
}