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Phase 03
Maintenance
Improves the next cycle. What shipped teaches the next Discovery.
Operating model

Developer zone
- Observe shipped work
- Decide what changes next
Agent zone
- Logs / traces / failures
- Analysis + learning notes
Feeds next context, tests, or guardrails.
Analysis loops back into the next cycle.
I use agents to analyze what happened.
I decide what changes next.
Maintenance feeds the next Discovery cycle.
1.1 Maintenance outputs
- context delta
- docs or no-docs-needed
- verification output
- PR review notes
- next task notes