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Part 3 · Operate

Approvals

Keyboard-first review. Four keys and a queue that should be short.

01What it is

The review queue. Everything that cleared the gates and needs a human, worked with the keyboard.

02Why it exists

Review is the one task you will do every day, so it is built for speed rather than for browsing. The queue should be short, because the gates and the revision loop already removed everything that would waste your time.

A long queue means something upstream is wrong. Usually a thin context or a missing voice profile.

03How to use it

  1. 01Use j and k to move, a to approve, e to edit, x to reject, and ? for the list.
  2. 02Reject with a reason. The loop reads it.
  3. 03Edit when the substance is right. Your edit is signal too.
  4. 04If the queue is long, fix the context rather than working faster.

04What good looks like

You give it
Six drafts a day, four approved without editing.
You get
Ten minutes of review, and the edit rate tells you when to raise your autonomy stage.
Why
The gates removed the rest before you saw them.

Derived from the rules in the code

05What weak looks like, and what it costs

You give it
Forty drafts a day, most of them edited heavily.
You get
An hour of review and no improvement, because heavy edits without a reason teach the loop nothing.
Why
The revision loop reads rejections with reasons. A silent rewrite is invisible to it.

Derived from the rules in the code

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