Phase 3 — Operation Plane (Sketch)

Unit type: Phase (of Epic lattice-platform-development) Unit ID: phase-3 Promotes to: phase-3-plan.md Status record: phase-3-status.md Depends on: phase-2 exit gate

Why this chunk is deliberately light

Same rationale as phase-2-sketch.md: the epic’s rolling-wave methodology expands Phase 3 to full VP-level detail at P2.11.4 (Phase 2’s own close-out slice), not before. This chunk exists as a real, standalone plan/status pair — satisfying the Epic Decomposition Model — without inventing test tables the epic has explicitly deferred.

The epic states one hard gate for this phase that is worth restating rather than leaving buried in a table: no C-09 (behaviour execution engine) slice starts until C-07 (projection maintenance) reconciliation has been green for a full week of nightly runs against synthetic load, including an injected-divergence scenario. This is called out twice in the epic (Part 7’s header and Part 10’s “anti-pattern to avoid” note) because a behaviour engine over a silently-corrupt projection produces wrong decisions that look right. That gate is not something later expansion should be allowed to quietly soften.

Risks specific to this phase, worth stating now