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Cycle Story D — Before / After

Source: c124 cycle-stories, option D. The change itself leads: one big compare per outcome, with who it came from beside it. Fixture from the c121 record and market-analyst calls.

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design · c121

Governance v1 Scope

activeWaves 1–2 committed 2026-10-23; Wave 3 next

Why: One week of conversations with our CISO advisor reshaped the governance model, and the lab still showed the positions those conversations had overturned: snooze, named drafts with approval, required expiry dates, noisy findings.

Everything on the policy page

BeforeAfter
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Before · c114After · c121
Before: Severity, scope and groups as separate sectionsAfter: Mode + Until up top; exceptions use the same control

← → to move between outcomes

In plain words

Think of a company's rules for its AI helpers as a set of light switches: off, watch, or block. This week we agreed each rule gets one switch, and if you ever loosen a switch you have to say why. Before you flip it, the screen tells you exactly who it affects. All the flips wait in one shared cart and go live together, like checking out. This cycle made every screen in the lab work that way.

“The policy is where everything happens.”

Mark Parson · Wednesday session, 53:33

Thanks to

MP
Shaped the v1 model across four sessions

Moved mode onto the policy and retired snooze; asked to see a change's impact before making it; kept expiry optional; proposed the team posture bar, propagation per version, config import and the onboarding-vs-mature demo. His intents PR #4 and v1 scope note set the cycle's scope.

RG
Rob GenovaQpoint team
Kept findings honest and exports safe

Asked for each finding to keep the policy version it was detected under (D16), flagged the findings flood from agents running wild (D3), and caught that exported configs could carry tokens (D13).

TF
Tyler FlintQpoint team
Named the hardest problem, so v1 could skip it

Called multi-draft conflict resolution the hardest thing on the roadmap; v1 ships one shared draft and waits for real usage.

MP
Mark ParsonQpoint team
Walked the lab and ruled D1–D26

Turned the week into the lab: made the loosening reason required, renamed Changes to Policy Config, and ran the Friday walkthrough where nobody asked for changes.

The record 2,270 words · 9 key changes · 26 decisions · 28 captures

Key Changes, every decision, artifacts and the full visual record stay as written in CYCLE.md. Open the live c121 page →

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