decklisted

# The Deck `deck/` is the project's work-tracking surface. Each subdirectory is one **card**: a unit of work — bug, story, epic, idea, derivation gap, doc-drift catch — with frontmatter-driven status on a kanban board. ## Heritage & philosophy: agile for the age of agents The deck inherits three traditions deliberately: - **XP story cards (Beck, 1999).** One card = one unit of work, small enough to fit on an index card, with enough context that any team member can pick it up. We keep the size discipline; the medium is markdown instead of cardboard. - **Scrum's Definition of Done (Sutherland & Schwaber).** Every card carries a checkbox-list DoD as a closure contract. `goc done <title>` refuses to flip the status until every box is `- [x]`. The contract is machine-checkable, not a verbal handoff. - **Kanban (Anderson, Toyota lineage).** Status mutates; position on disk does NOT. A card stays at `deck/<title>/` for life — no moving to `done/`, no archiving. Cross-references stay valid through every state change. The argument for keeping these now: original agile was a response to **human handoff costs** — the 1990s problem of getting a feature from analyst to developer to QA without losing intent. AI agents are the most aggressive handoff-stress-test ever invented: dozens of sub-agents, scheduled cron loops, and parallel /loop iterations all read the same cards and mutate the same frontmatter. What was "discipline" for human teams becomes **structurally lo