lock-in-disciplinelisted

# Lock-In Discipline ## The rule Give every open decision a time-box at the moment it opens, and say the number out loud. Define the bar before polishing begins, in terms of what the output must do. When the output clears that bar, lock the decision explicitly — not silently, not provisionally. Route every improvement idea that arrives after the lock to a v2 list, never back into the open decision. At time-box expiry, adopt the best current option automatically, with no closing ceremony. Extend once at most, and only with a stated reason that names what the extra time will produce. ## Triggers - A decision has been revisited three times and no new information arrived between the revisits. - The user asks the same settled question a third time, usually rephrased as a request for reassurance rather than analysis. - A third or fourth variant is requested, and the reason given for rejecting the previous ones is that they were close. - The output already does the job it was made for, and work on it is continuing anyway. - Evaluation artifacts are multiplying — a fourth comparison sheet, a second scoring rubric, a new set of criteria invented after the options were already scored. - Nobody in the conversation can state what would make the current leading option acceptable. - The improvement ideas arriving now are visibly smaller than the ones that arrived an hour ago. - The decision has been open longer than the work it is blocking would take to complete. - Some version of "alm