Meridian Engineering / Lab 2
Reference
Consult the sources that support your understanding, decisions, and evidence throughout the work.
Your orientation Reference · supports every work phaseIntuition · Common language · Habit
Where you are in the work
- Define / Plan
- Execute
- Judge
- Learn
What you are developing
Resolve gaps in your understanding using the supplied sources.
Use the same vocabulary, authority rules, and evidence structures throughout the lab.
Return to the relevant source when making, checking, or handing off a decision.
Grounding & shared language
Revisit the scenario, vocabulary, and intended outcomes.
Authority & specification
Resolve what governs the work, what may be built, and when it is ready.
Evidence & continuity
Keep findings, decisions, and the journey available for review and handoff.
Agent scope & instructions
Consult the supplied workspace and repository-specific guidance when delegating.
Session support
The parking lot
Environment problems, deep domain questions, and anything that would derail thirty people go here. The facilitator picks them up at the Q&A pauses or after the session.
Nothing is lost by parking something. A room of thirty loses a great deal by debugging one laptop together.
If you fall behind
Say so, early.
Stage 5 is the payoff and there are facilitator checkpoints for exactly this situation. There is no prize for finishing the code — there is a great deal of value in reaching independent validation and finding out what it catches.
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│ Two outcomes that are wins, not failures: │
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│ ▸ "No diff, and here is the evidence it was already correct." │
│ ▸ "We do not know, and we refused to invent an answer." │
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| Document | What it answers |
|---|---|
docs/ESSENTIAL_OUTCOMES.md |
What is graded |
docs/TERM_CARD.md |
The ten terms |
docs/SPEC_COMPLETENESS_BAR.md |
When a spec is good enough |
docs/SCENARIO_GROUNDING.md |
Real Meridian vs. lab vs. planted |
docs/PGS_DECISIONS.md |
Every decision and its source |
specs/OUT_OF_SCOPE.md |
What must not be built |
specs/NON_NEGOTIABLES.md |
What holds regardless |