Transformer: snapshot a Parent directory into a new independent Child.

The mason process: listen, admit, run Conductor, report. Loads one FeatureManager plugin.

Isolation strategy: directory copy attach, directory merge fold.

WorkLedger persistence: one SQLite database via node:sqlite.

Shipped mason slots: Planners, Builders, Gates, publishers, and refreshers a Project names in its config.

GitHub Issues FeatureManager: issues in, comments and labels out; pull requests as Authority.

WorkLedger persistence: one JSON file per key on the filesystem.

Durable store of FeatureStandards, Subtasks, states, Attempts, and Traces.

Transformer: fold a Child directory into an existing Parent, never forced.

Sequences Transformers for one FeatureStandard. Writes the WorkLedger before it acts.

Transformer: FeatureStandard in, a Plan out, or refuse.

What a Planner, Builder, or Gate written in Node needs to answer the Transformer that spawned it.

Transformer: runs one Task — Builder, then Gates — until validated, escalated, or interrupted.

File-based FeatureManager: JSON intentions in, Threads out. No account.

Contract a FeatureManager package implements for Host.

Isolation strategy: git worktree attach, three-way merge fold.