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# Cutting — one ticket per thing the app can now do This is **stage 4** of the solo path, and the last one. Everything has been decided and the repo is real. You turn one sentence into a backlog, hand it over, and stop. > The stage is **cutting**. The artifact is **the backlog**. They never share a name. > Prior art: `/to-spec` and `/to-tickets`. This is a re-derivation, not a copy, and it is > **one command, not two**. **Decide nothing.** Every choice this stage needs was made in charting. **Nothing on the map is reopened here** — if cutting turns up a decision that was wrong, say so and stop. That is the backwards step, it is one deliberate step, and it is the human's to take. It is never a judgement you make while writing tickets. ## Before the first step Three things must already exist. Check all three before cutting anything. | | Where it comes from | If it is missing | |---|---|---| | **The smallest version** — one sentence | the map's Notes, written by the kill gate in stage 1 | **Stop.** It is the source of every unit. Without it you will cut from the decisions, which is the one thing this stage must not do. | | **A closed map** | charting, stage 2 | **Stop.** Constraints are copied out of it, and copying is only safe while one of the two copies cannot change. | | **A scaffolded repo** | the bootstrap, stage 3 | **Stop.** Tickets written against an empty repo name paths that do not exist. | **Do not fill a gap by writing the sentence yourself.** A missing smal