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Definition

Locked from the Rung 2 industry-read workshop. The cadence specified by [The Scope Handoff Document]; the practice that catches [Control Snapback] before it calcifies. A short, fixed, recurring debrief between operator and hire — usually at end of shift, usually ten minutes, always structured — that holds the relationship across the [Role Transfer] without re-collapsing the role. A standing appointment, not a check-in called when the operator has a concern or a meeting summoned when something goes wrong. The fixed agenda surfaces calls the hire made that day inside the domain (for visibility, not approval), differences where the operator would have called it differently (named openly, tested against the documented standard rather than operator preference), and standards that need updating.

Explanation

The word “close” is doing real work in the name. This isn’t an open-ended conversation, it’s a closed loop — fixed length, fixed agenda, fixed cadence — because an open-ended check-in drifts toward whatever the operator wants to talk about that day, and an operator who’s prone to [Control Snapback] will drift the conversation right back into re-litigating calls that were already the hire’s to make.

The agenda’s insistence on “for visibility, not approval” is the entire discipline in one phrase. The hire reports what happened; the operator doesn’t get to re-decide it after the fact. Differences get named against the documented standard, not against what the operator personally would have done — because personal preference re-injected into a transferred domain is exactly how [Role Drift] starts. Skip this cadence, or let it drift into a ritual nobody takes seriously, and the domain re-collapses toward the operator without either side quite noticing when it happened.