Maintaining Engagement State

An engagement lasts weeks. A session does not. The gap between those two facts is where work gets repeated, findings lose their evidence, credentials become unattributable, and artifacts get left on production because nobody wrote down that they were placed.

This is not administrative overhead bolted onto the real work. Provenance is what makes a finding reportable, and the artifact register is what makes cleanup possible. Neither can be reconstructed afterwards from terminal scrollback.

Assume everything not written to the record is lost: not merely forgotten, but silently lost, so the next session confidently redoes it or contradicts it.

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