Done is the author's word.
In a people-process the author moves their own ticket, and done is their say-so. An agent that grades its own work will pass it.
The argument
A delivery process is a set of assumptions about who updates the tracker, who looks, and who remembers. An agent breaks the ones that depended on a person being in the loop.
In a people-process the author moves their own ticket, and done is their say-so. An agent that grades its own work will pass it.
Parallel agents collide on files, not on tickets. A claim nobody frees sits there after the agent has gone.
An agent fills a gap in intent. If anyone can mark the document approved, a quiet edit moves the target.
The next agent inherits the last agent's confident note, including a wrong one. A folder of notes answers with the nearest page.
An agent re-reads it, or trusts a map that has gone quiet. A diagram nobody updates becomes a confident lie.
A rule in a document and a rule the server refuses look the same until one of them is ignored.
That is the line under the six. Unknown, unmeasured, stale, and never-reported are states of their own. The long version of how a green check hid a rule that had never fired is the bug that started it. The gates are on the pipeline page. The principles under the six are how it's built.