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FLIP

Feedback-Learning Integration Process

The ceremonial discipline that ensures every struggle, spike, innovation, and failure is recorded, classified, and fed back into the standards. The process always varies based on who is running the work, what the goals are, and what Internal Logic is available — but the learning loop itself is structural, not optional.

Ceremony cycle

From cards to doctrine

How failures become canon through systematic evidence collection and feedback. Each sprint strengthens the doctrine the next sprint operates under.

PHASE 1Card GroomingSys/Starter mode · Definition of Done lockedPHASE 2DispatchBoard picks order · Scope frozen per cardPHASE 3ExecutionStandard or Literal modePossible outcomes →BLOCKAC unclear → returns to groomingESCALATEContract breaks → Lead decidesSPIKEInfra blocker → separate card filed✓ completesVerification WalkTester exercises all ACs on stagingTesterMerge & CollectBoard merges · Completion Brief capturedBoardPHASE 4Sprint ReviewWhere evidence becomes doctrineDISPOSITIONSRECORD-CANON · RECORD-MEMORYFILE-CARD · WATCH-ITEMSys triages · Board compilesIL Classification GateDomain truth → canon · Infra → watch onlyCanon UpdateCounsel verifies · PR lands before next sprintCounselIL GuardSprint N+1 starts with stronger doctrineCYCLE REPEATS