Working doc on 2026-09-01 candidate. Open questions inline.
Related: 2026-09-21 eval, 2025-05-21 customer.
Cross-section thread: speculative mission 6966. The connection matters because both pages touch the same underlying question — see the discussion in the linked page.
- Vault → monthly → engineer. Worth a second pass; the vault angle keeps coming back.
- Interview → prompt → engineer. Worth a second pass; the interview angle keeps coming back.
Decisions: shipped the feature flag, rolled back the SLO tweak, queued the postmortem for next week.