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  "title": "Summary",
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    "Next steps"
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  "source": "You now know how a change travels from an idea to `done` in an AI-native org -\nwith Cogitave's own lifecycle as the worked example - and how to tell the\ndifference between working on it and finishing it.\n\nIn this module, you:\n\n- Learned that a change is a first-class **Request** (in Cogitave's Core,\n  `cogitave://request/{id}`) that humans and agents drive through the **same\n  stages** over MCP - intake, evaluate, plan, document, implement, review, done.\n- Saw that each stage **produces an artifact** and **passes a gate**, that stages\n  **auto-advance on green checks**, and that a human is pulled in only on an\n  exception.\n- Understood why the write tools - two of them in Cogitave's estate,\n  `request_intake` and `advance_stage` - are **propose-only**: they open an issue\n  or PR and stage a draft, and **never** merge, apply, or release.\n- Read the **Definition of Done** - DoD == 100% *and* a CODEOWNER approval, with\n  Core items that cannot be waived - and can now say when a Request is genuinely\n  done rather than merely worked on.\n\nYou can now find, read, and work a change end to end - the lifecycle every\ncontribution and every operation runs on.\n\n## Next steps\n\nWhere you go next depends on your path:\n\n- **Onboard to an AI-native codebase** → @cogitave.learn.open-your-first-pull-request -\n  turn the lifecycle into an actual signed, Conventional-Commit, docs-complete\n  pull request (the final module of that path; completing it earns the trophy).\n- **Operate your AI-native estate** → @cogitave.learn.run-agentic-operations - see\n  how agents run this same lifecycle across your estate under least privilege.\n- The **`LIFECYCLE.md`** doc is the authority on the seven stages; keep it open\n  when you work a real Request.\n- The **`definition-of-done.md`** doc has the full checklist the review gate\n  enforces.\n",
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  "durationInMinutes": 3,
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