Status & Verification Legend (canonical)

Referenced by every document. Defined once here.

Maturity (capability state)

• 🟢 Production — running and depended on today
• 🔵 Working Prototype — demonstrated end-to-end; not production-hardened
• 🟡 In Development — actively being built; partial
• ⚪ Planned — designed, not started
• 🔬 Research — spec/idea phase; unproven

Verification (claim confidence)

• Verified — proven from a primary source (doc, code, signed receipt)
• Observed — seen in a tool output or run this cycle
• Derived — logically follows from verified facts
• Assumed — working assumption, not yet checked
• Planned — target state, not real yet

Terminal states (task / change completion)

Every task or change set reports exactly one terminal state:

• COMPLETE — implemented, validated, merged.
• PENDING REVIEW — implemented, validated, pushed, mergeable; awaiting human review or approval only. A green, mergeable draft MR is PENDING REVIEW, not blocked.
• BLOCKED — cannot proceed: failed validation, missing dependency, missing credentials, policy restriction, or an unresolved design decision. Report with evidence.

Analysis, documentation, plans, or backlogs alone never constitute COMPLETE.