Reference

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Reference	Covers
Automation Behavior	What each automation level (supervised / trusted / autonomous) permits.
Autonomous PM Front-End	The vision-only → approved-queue backbone (pm-frontend.js) — check-vision, scaffold, the queue gate, and blocker→TODO handoff.
bob ready	One idempotent, non-interactive command that converges a project to warp-drive-ready on any machine, ending with a READY / NOT READY verdict.
bob-reap	The declarative working-tree residue reaper — reap.json manifest, keep-list floor, liveness guards, TTL, and session-end integration (#1664).
Branch Config	Branch detection and the single-source-of-truth resolver.
CLI Safety	The non-project guard (project-guard.sh) — hard-denied targets, the override, and the destructive-command inventory.
Design-Brief Schema	The generic brief format /design-brief emits — front matter, the seven sections, provenance states, validity rules.
Design-Generator Catalog	The AI design generators a brief can target (v0, Lovable, Bolt, Figma Make) — input conventions, strengths, limits, fidelity, constraint→tool chooser.
Dev Lifecycle	The dev.json manifest and the /dev-up lifecycle contract.
Doc-Bootstrap	The tier rubric, the scripts/doc-bootstrap/ script + CLI surface, and the JSON contracts (inventory, triage, coverage, source_evidence).
Documentation Standard	The spec every BoB doc obeys — Diátaxis modes, taxonomy, frontmatter, severity model.
Forge Health	The classified forge-availability signal every gh-dependent path can read, plus the durable read cache and write-ahead queue that keep a run alive through a degradation — the gh PATH shim, the classifier, the TTL cache, the read fallback, and the write spool and its replay (#1748, #1749, #1750).
Glossary	Skill, agent, slash-command, and shell-command glossaries (extracted from handbook §10–13).
Hooks Reference	Every BoB hook, by event (extracted from handbook §14).
Kickoff Flags	Warp-drive run options set at kickoff (-f/--timeout/--ceiling/--budget/--area/--dry-run) — the kickoff.js parser, floor-safe validation, and how they surface in warp status/config.
Launchpad Links Index	The bob-launchpad-links/1 schema and generator (scripts/launchpad/links-index.js) — per-project link map derived from declared state only.
Loop Primitive	The declarative "do X until Y" construct and its manifest schema.
Memory Recall	On-demand query over the file-based memory store (recall.js) — the relevance signal (keyword×recency + type-prior + usage), scope bounds, and CLI flags. Complements memory-audit.
Mirror Remote	The declared second git host every managed repo publishes to — mirrors.json topology, idempotent reconcile, dual-remote publish, and staleness reporting (#1747).
Narrative-from-Git Engine	The shared deterministic core behind /update-story and /update-journey (scripts/narrative/engine.sh) — config schema, count types, new-surface detection, and the JSON output contract.
Natural-Language Guide	The phrasings that trigger BoB commands and skills.
Port Allocation	Dev-port band convention and the two-tier source-of-truth model.
Reversibility Decision Engine	The L4 one-way/two-way classifier (decision-engine.js) — categories, the never-guess safety bias, and the CLI exit-code contract.
Session Evidence Ledger	The per-project append-only record of what tooling sessions actually used — skills, agents, commands (#1131); the substrate gap detection and orchestrator feedback read.
Test-Environment Mirror	Provision a test environment mirroring prod and sync prod data into it with mandatory redaction (#451).
tmux Cheatsheet	tmux keybindings for warp-drive / cdfork sessions.
TODO Format Contract	The body contract a todo issue must satisfy (summary, numbered steps, #NN link) and the completed done-signal.
Token Monitoring	Token-usage capture, reporting, and cost estimation.
Verification System	make check / test targets and what each verifies.
Warp-Drive State Reference	State file, state-machine CLI, and the full phase-transition table.
Writing Styleguide	Prose rules (WS-N) for all authored artifacts — issues, commits, PRs, comments, docs.