{
  "$comment": "RFC-0028. The loop with the worst reversibility profile: a design mistake surfaces months later in code nobody wants to unwind. That is why its gate is a panel, not a script.",
  "name": "design",
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "description": "Take a ratified requirement to a recorded architectural decision — constraints, structure, diagrams, threats, then a panel that must agree before the decision is written down. Use when the user is designing a system, choosing an architecture, or asking how something should be built.",
  "entrypoint": "LOOP.md",
  "kind": "loop",
  "cap": 3,
  "stages": [
    {
      "id": "constrain",
      "type": "generate",
      "intent": "Name the quality targets before the structure, so the design is judged against numbers rather than taste.",
      "skills": ["nfr-spec"]
    },
    {
      "id": "shape",
      "type": "generate",
      "intent": "Write the design and render it. The prose and the picture are one artifact and must not disagree.",
      "skills": ["design-doc", "architecture-diagrams"]
    },
    {
      "id": "threat",
      "type": "verify",
      "intent": "Attack the design that now exists, before it is ratified rather than after it is built.",
      "skills": ["threat-model"]
    },
    {
      "id": "ratify",
      "type": "gate",
      "intent": "A standing panel takes independent positions before cross-talk, surfaces the cruxes, and records dissent.",
      "skills": ["council-review"],
      "gate": {
        "id": "G1",
        "kind": "review",
        "verdicts": ["PROCEED", "PROCEED WITH CONDITIONS", "REVISE", "RECONSIDER", "SPLIT", "BLOCKED"],
        "revise_to": "shape"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "record",
      "type": "generate",
      "intent": "Write the decision down with its rejected alternatives, so the next team inherits the reasoning and not just the outcome.",
      "skills": ["adr-generator"]
    }
  ]
}