Codex interview framework

Run every normal-mode start, triage, research, requirements, design, and tasks phase through references/algorithm.md and references/domain-modeling.md.

Completion criterion

Delegate only after all of these conditions hold for one identity tuple:

• phase, interviewId, discoveryRevision, and contextDigest match in state and in the delegation packet.
• The selected skill manifest has status complete or partial_warned.
• The phase interview has status complete or skipped after explicit final approval.
• phase_gate.py check-delegation succeeds.

Hard-transition invariant

Run the current check-delegation immediately before each affected phase transition or child dispatch. A failed check-delegation in either mode stops this invocation before state transition, child dispatch, or target-artifact write. After a normal-mode failure, the next explicit invocation uses a fresh manifest/interview identity. After an exact --quick delegation failure, the next explicit invocation reruns discovery, records a fresh phaseSkillLoad and interview identity, and does not reuse a terminal bypassed_quick interview or its discovery revision. Only a matching in-progress collecting or awaiting_confirmation interview is resumable. A matching in-progress interview that has not reached a failed delegation boundary remains valid for resume.

Exact --quick preserves discovery, manifest, parent-delegation provenance, check-delegation, receipt recording, and check-agent-write. Quick mode bypasses interview questions only. Exact --quick separately bypasses final approval. It still runs check-delegation immediately before dispatch, uses the same identity tuple, requires a current complete or partial_warned manifest plus an interview receipt with status bypassed_quick and quickAuthorization.source: "--quick", and has no other bypass.

Hard boundaries