skills/.changeset/wayfinder-deferred-section.md
Matt Pocock 299eb0c017 Give wayfinder a distinct Deferred section for beyond-destination work
Fog is the undiscovered frontier *toward* the destination — in scope,
just not yet sharp — so it graduates into tickets as the frontier
advances. Work ruled out of *this* effort's scope was being parked in
Fog too, where it read as takeable frontier (an unblocked, unclaimed
ticket is indistinguishable from a live one).

Add a dedicated `## Deferred` section for beyond-the-destination work:
it never graduates (the frontier stops at the destination) and returns
only as a fresh effort if the destination is redrawn. The "Fog or
ticket?" test becomes "Fog, ticket, or deferred?", gated on scope as
well as sharpness, and both charting and working-the-map now defer a
mis-scoped ticket (close it, one line in Deferred) rather than leaving
it on the frontier or logging it in Decisions so far.

Builds on #455 (destination as the leading word / destination fixes
scope).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-05 15:08:48 +01:00

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Give wayfinder a distinct ## Deferred section for work that lies beyond the destination, separating it from Fog.

Fog is the undiscovered frontier toward the destination — in scope, just not yet sharp — so it graduates into tickets as the frontier advances. Work ruled out of this effort's scope was being parked in Fog too, where it read as takeable frontier. It now has its own home: the ## Deferred section, which never graduates (the frontier stops at the destination) and returns only as a fresh effort if the destination is redrawn. The "Fog or ticket?" test becomes "Fog, ticket, or deferred?" — gated on scope as well as sharpness — and both charting and working-the-map now defer a ticket found beyond the destination (close it, record one line in Deferred) rather than leaving it on the frontier or logging it in Decisions so far.