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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 the Cogitave estate,\nand how to tell the difference between working on it and finishing it.\n\nIn this module, you:\n\n- Learned that a change is a first-class **Request** (`cogitave://request/{id}`)\n  that humans and agents drive through the **same seven stages** over MCP -\n  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 two write tools, `request_intake` and `advance_stage`, are\n  **propose-only**: they open an issue or PR and stage a draft, and **never**\n  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- **Contributor onboarding** → @cogitave.learn.open-your-first-pull-request - turn\n  the lifecycle into an actual signed, Conventional-Commit, docs-complete pull\n  request (the final module of that path; completing it earns the trophy).\n- **Operate the estate** → @cogitave.learn.run-agentic-operations - see how agents\n  run this same lifecycle across the estate under least privilege.\n- The **`LIFECYCLE.md`** doc, in the estate's agents tree, is the authority on\n  the seven stages; keep it open 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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