Pins canonical nomenclature per project so terminology does not drift and LLM-driven work reuses the established term instead of coining a synonym each session. The glossary rides the existing standing-reading mechanism — one optional path slot, no new delivery path. Single-sourcing, to avoid cross-doc drift: - `paths.glossary` row in profile-schema.md owns the "set => standing reading for every role; unset => no-op" semantics; agent-template.md and pipeline.md each carry one referencing sentence, not a restatement. - glossary-convention.md owns the format (flat per-term blocks: canonical heading + Avoid line + <=2-sentence definition) and the boss record-reality-never-invent write-rule; boss/SKILL.md only points to it. - glossary.md dogfoods the format on the plugin's own vocabulary (cycle, milestone, iteration, drift, hard-gate). Write authority: user any time; boss autonomously but only to record terms already in consistent use or to settle a drift it just resolved — never to coin. All other roles are read-only consumers. No executable surface; this repo has no test runner, so each task closed on a grep presence-assertion against the file it touched. All eight gates green (T1 3>=3, T2 5, T3 2, T4 1, T5 1, T6 1, T7 2, final sweep present). Implements docs/specs/2026-05-31-glossary-integration-design.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Glossary
Canonical nomenclature for this project. Use the canonical term;
never use a term under Avoid. If you need a concept that is not
listed here, reuse the closest existing term — do not silently coin
a new one. New entries are added only to record nomenclature already
in consistent use; see glossary-convention.md.
cycle
Avoid: release, epic, round, sprint One round in the pipeline graph (design → plan → execute → review → close). Not the top-level container — that is a milestone.
milestone
Avoid: epic, phase, big-ticket A tracker container spanning potentially many cycles; closes only when its promised work is complete and functional. A cycle close is never a milestone close.
iteration
Avoid: sprint, story, step
The default sub-unit of a cycle; one pass through the inner loop. A
project may rename it via vocabulary.subcycle.
drift
Avoid: divergence, rot, skew Accumulated mismatch between the codebase and its design ledger. Surfaced by the architect agent at audit, not by any synonym check.
hard-gate
Avoid: checkpoint, barrier, blocker A pipeline point that forbids downstream work until an artefact exists and is approved (e.g. an approved spec before any plan).