bootstraplisted

# Bootstrap — make the preconditions true, then report This is **stage 3** of the solo path. Everything has been decided and nothing has been built. You make it real, prove it, and hand over a report. > The stage is **the bootstrap**. The output is a **report**. The stage can finish while > the report is red. **Decide nothing.** Every choice this stage needs was made one stage earlier. If you find something that genuinely needs deciding, **stop and say so**. That is the backwards step, and it is the human's to take. ## Before the first step Five things must already exist. Check all five before touching anything. | | Where it comes from | If it is missing | |---|---|---| | The repo, and it is empty | the kill gate created it | **You scaffold; you never create.** Stop. | | The stack, named | charting's tail, ticket 1 | Stop. Charting is not finished. | | The layer chain, named | charting's tail, ticket 1 | Stop. Same reason. | | The Serena verdict | charting's tail, ticket 1 | Stop. Do not assume *yes*. | | The bootstrap checks — build, run, test, symbol | charting's tail, ticket 2 | Stop. You have nothing to prove anything with. | **Do not fill a gap by choosing.** A missing stack is not an invitation to suggest one. It means the stage before this one has not finished. Say which of the five is missing and stop. ## The line — where you work alone, and where you stop You work **alone inside the repo**. You **stop** for everything else. > **Before every write, ask one q