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**Outcome.** The request reaches the end state its shape calls for, produced by the Compound Engineering skill whose job that is, with everything unresolved recorded where the user will see it. Most requests end with that skill's result and no branch. A change to the code is the one shape with more steps of its own: it ends in an open pull request whose URL you hold, with CI decided, after being implemented, simplified, reviewed with the eligible findings applied and the rest recorded, any durable learning captured, committed, and pushed. Merging stays with the user unless they granted it for this run.

**Work source.** On the routes that change the code, nothing is implemented without a work source verified this run, and only two things qualify: an implementation-ready plan, which `ce-work` implements; or a `fixed` return from `ce-debug`, where the fix is the implementation. The plan is one the session identifies, as `references/intake.md` defines. Never search the plans directory for a candidate or act on a file you discovered. Never plan from scratch over an existing plan.
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