## What
Rewrites the factory lifecycle model in VISION.md around three primitives:
- **Resources** — what the factory can use
- **Addressables** — artifacts reachable by users (the outbound path)
- **Observables** — addressables with signal flowing back (the return path)
## The lifecycle
```
Resources → build → Addressable → promote → Observable → experiment → learn → build
```
## Key ideas
- **Three folds** (Build, Ship, Learn) as concurrent capabilities, not sequential phases
- **Vault-gated fold transitions** — dormant infrastructure activates on human approval
- **"It's not shipped until it's measured"** — observable-by-default principle
- **Assumptions register** over variation surfaces — track beliefs, challenge them with data
- **Signal detection** — follow the energy, not the hypothesis
- **Maximum contact with reality** — vary the audience, instrument everything, notice surprises
## Milestone updates
- Added Ship (Fold 2) and Learn (Fold 3) milestones
- Updated Adoption milestone to reflect containerization
- Added knowledge graph to Foundation
- Added observable-by-default to design principles
Co-designed in conversation, 2026-03-25.
Co-authored-by: openhands <openhands@all-hands.dev>
Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/johba/disinto/pulls/708
Reviewed-by: Disinto_bot <disinto_bot@noreply.codeberg.org>
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