See ../reference/references/shared-hard-gates.md § Shared References Convention.

Beo Validating

Overview

Validating is the gate between planning and execution. Its job is to prove that the current phase is structurally sound before any code is written.

Core principle: catch plan failures before they become implementation failures.

If phase-plan.md exists, validation still applies to the current phase only. Whole-feature sequencing matters for context, but approval never expands into later phases.

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