Alignment

Declare every pattern you intend to follow and every design opinion you've formed — explicitly, with evidence and reasoning — so the human can correct them before implementation begins. Research produces facts; alignment is where you form and surface opinions for correction.

Prerequisites

Locate the inputs:

1. Brief — check conversation context first; fall back to design-docs/NN-name.brief.md; if absent, ask whether to run discovery.
2. Research — check conversation context first; fall back to design-docs/NN-name.research.md; if absent, ask whether to run research.
3. Glossary — load docs/glossary.md if present. If absent (first iteration), schedule creation at Phase 3 end (see Glossary maintenance below).

Process