Phase 1 of the visitor-economy agent-readiness audit shipped as a single 103-file commit, slotted between two briefs without breaking commit scope. The post-publish verification ran sub-minute and got promoted to a standing protocol step.
One commit — 050e18e on aicv-playbook/docs — landed the Phase 1 visitor-economy agent-readiness audit. 103 files. The reports shelf went from 2 to 3. The commit message: feat(audits): ship Phase 1 visitor-economy agent-readiness audit.
This one shipped between briefs 153 and 154 on the brief-commit sequence — in a parallel thread, not interleaved. The path-scoped commit discipline held: the audit's 103 files never bled into the brief commits, and the brief commits never picked up audit files. Two threads, one working tree, no contamination.
The post-publish verification protocol ran sub-minute after deploy and caught what it needed to catch. On the basis of that single observation, it was promoted to a standing step in BRIEF_RESHAPE.md — Step 7. One real run is enough to write something into the spec when the run is unambiguous.