01Goal & contextThe user or organization states the desired outcome; identity, tenant and trusted context define the operating boundary.
02Policy & authorizationPermissions, tool scopes, targets, budget and approval requirements are resolved before sensitive execution.
03Plan & orchestrateThe job is decomposed into ordered, bounded steps and routed to deterministic services or intelligent capabilities.
04ExecuteAgents/tools act only inside granted scopes; clients remain projections of backend authority.
05ValidateDeterministic checks, security gates and acceptance criteria decide whether an output can advance.
06Evidence & approvalMeaningful events, validation results and provenance are retained; independent approval is required where policy says so.
07Deliver & monitorAccepted results are delivered or prepared for deployment/publishing, then monitored for status and failure.
08Recover & auditRetryable failures follow bounded recovery; non-retryable failures stop or escalate with a reviewable trail.