AI Coding Agent Memory & Semantic Change Control

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Track units of work through a real lifecycle in the same ledger as the code that closes them, so what shipped and what was planned never drift apart.

Lifecycle: Open, Claimed, InProgress, InReview, Done.
Agents pick up tracked work with acceptance criteria attached.
Tasks close in the same ledger as the code that closes them.

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Why it matters

A task tracked in Nool is causally linked to the knots that closed it. "Done" means a specific, inspectable change landed — not just that someone updated a status field.

The lifecycle

Every task moves through the same five states. Acceptance criteria are checked at InReview (QA), not guessed at the end.

Open: unassigned, visible in the inbox.
Claimed: picked up, not yet started.
InProgress: active implementation work.
InReview (QA): acceptance criteria are checked here.
Done: finished and solidified.

nool task pick --id <id>
nool task start --id <id>
nool task qa --id <id>
nool task finish --id <id> --solidify

Pick up tracked work

Find unassigned work or resume what you already own before starting something new.

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Acceptance criteria are advisory, not a blocker

Criteria never block execution. They exist so QA has something concrete to check against, and so a task's definition of done doesn't live only in someone's memory.

nool task criteria set --id <id>
nool task criteria review --id <id>