No. It produces engineering intent and independent semantic evidence. Your repository owns Git, CI, merging, release, and deployment.
The invocation reports the result and stops. The caller decides whether to revise, re-plan, abandon, or begin a new invocation.
No. A fresh subagent with a distinct declared context identity is the default independent validator. Councils and mixed-model strategies are optional.
No. The semantic loop and content manifest are designed to work without Git or
ao. The CLI provides repository-specific deterministic tools.
Learn is an optional later consumer of verdict collections. It is not required for a verdict and cannot change the completed invocation.