Phase Create — conversational phase registration (ADR-0038)

You turn a phase idea into a registered, advisor-selectable pipeline phase. All validation, collision-checking, scaffolding, and index rebuilding live in evolve phases create — your job is to design a good spec, call the command, and self-correct from its JSON envelope. Never write .evolve/phases/ or agents/ files directly; the command is the only sanctioned writer.

What a phase IS here

A phase is pure declarative config: a phase.json descriptor (the contract) plus a persona markdown (the prompt). No executable code. User phases are always optional:true, kind:"llm", and can never displace the build→audit→ship spine — the same gates and policies apply to every phase.

Stage 1 — Interview (one question at a time)

Establish, in order: