Feedback

An interrupt procedure for the receiving side of feedback. It begins when feedback arrives and ends when the loop is closed: every point integrated, contested, or explicitly parked — never silently dropped.

What counts as feedback: asserted claims from a source with intent — a human correction, a reviewer's findings (human or agent), an audit result. What doesn't: mechanical signals. A failing test, CI red, or lint output is an observation, not an assertion — diagnose it (see the rigour skill's differential diagnosis), don't "respond" to it.

Two failure poles, both defects:

• Capitulation — flipping position because someone asserted otherwise. "You're right" followed by unexamined rework is not integration; it swaps your errors for theirs and teaches the source nothing.
• Entrenchment — defending prior conclusions reflexively, demanding the source prove what you could check yourself, litigating every correction.