Standing convention reminder
This is what INTERSTITIAL is for: the architectural conversation that moves the arc forward gets preserved alongside the slice artifacts. The four-questions verdict, the gaze convergence, the stepping-stone analysis — these are NOT in the BRIEF (the BRIEF carries forward-instruction); they’re not in the SCORE (the SCORE is post-hoc). They’re the reasoning that produced the BRIEF. Compaction erases the orchestrator’s working memory; the form persists.