{
  "$comment": "RFC-0028. The first loop of the lifecycle: nothing is designed or built until a human has ratified what problem is being solved. Cheapest loop to redo and the most expensive to skip.",
  "name": "discover",
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "description": "Take raw signal — interviews, journeys, a strategy question — to a requirement a human has ratified, so design starts from an agreed problem rather than an assumed one. Use when the user is deciding what to build, scoping a feature, or turning stakeholder conversations into requirements.",
  "entrypoint": "LOOP.md",
  "kind": "loop",
  "cap": 3,
  "stages": [
    {
      "id": "gather",
      "type": "generate",
      "intent": "Collect the raw signal from whichever direction it arrives: a stakeholder conversation, an existing user journey, or a strategic question.",
      "skills": ["requirements-interview", "user-journey-map", "strategy-analysis"]
    },
    {
      "id": "structure",
      "type": "generate",
      "intent": "Turn the mess into one brief with every field tagged explicit / implied / inferred / missing, so downstream can see what was assumed.",
      "skills": ["brief-intake"]
    },
    {
      "id": "specify",
      "type": "generate",
      "intent": "Turn the ratified brief into numbered requirements a design can be held to.",
      "skills": ["prd-draft"]
    },
    {
      "id": "ratify",
      "type": "gate",
      "intent": "A human agrees this is the problem worth solving. The critique informs that decision; it does not make it.",
      "skills": ["doc-critique"],
      "gate": {
        "id": "G0",
        "kind": "human",
        "verdicts": ["PROCEED", "PROCEED WITH CONDITIONS", "REVISE", "RECONSIDER", "BLOCKED"],
        "revise_to": "structure"
      }
    }
  ]
}