Prioritize Marketing Initiatives

Paste this into an assistant that can read the web, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. It reads the specification and the current LangGraph documentation, then writes two files: the graph, and a note on what did not survive the translation. Read the note first. What a runtime cannot express is the part worth arguing about, and this process is a draft to argue with.

Convert the business process below into a runnable LangGraph graph:
one Python file with a TypedDict state, a StateGraph, nodes, edges,
conditional edges and a checkpointer.

The document is a reference process written to the Agent Processes
specification. Read the specification before you start, because it defines
terms that look ordinary and are not:

  https://agentcatalog.com/spec/agent-processes

Sections 6 (the phase graph), 6.5.1 (exception edges), 6.7.1 (deviations),
7 (automation) and 8 (handoffs) are the ones this conversion turns on.

Then read the current documentation for the primitives you will need, rather
than relying on what you remember of the API:

  https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/langgraph/interrupts
    interrupt() and Command(resume=), which is how a gate stops a run
  https://reference.langchain.com/python/langgraph/graph/state/StateGraph
    StateGraph, add_edge, add_conditional_edges, defer

WHAT THE DOCUMENT ASKS FOR

These hold wherever the process lands, and they matter more than style.

1. Each phase under `phases:` becomes one step, and keeps its name.

2. `after:` gives the edges. `after: a + b` is a join and waits for BOTH.
   Reading it as "either" is the defect the specification calls out by name.

3. Every handoff carries a key in square brackets. Each key becomes one field
   on the run's state, named exactly as the key with hyphens turned into
   underscores, and the sentence beside it becomes that field's comment. The key
   is the stable name; the sentence is prose that may be rewritten.

4. A phase MUST NOT begin before its inbound handoff exists. Where that is
   checkable, check it in the step rather than assuming it.

5. `automation: never` is a gate a person signs. The run stops there and does
   not continue until a person's decision comes back. Do not turn one into a
   notification, a log line, or an automatic transition, whatever the queue
   looks like.

6. Each line under `deviations:` is a backward or sideways edge, returning to
   the phase named on the right. The key in brackets names it, and that name
   belongs in the code.

7. A phase whose `after:` reads like "X or Y, whichever could not finish" is an
   exception edge: it is entered when those phases FAIL, not when they succeed.
   Do not wire it as an ordinary successor.

8. Anything in angle brackets is a blank the adopting organization fills in.
   Leave each one as a named constant at the top of the file with a TODO. Do not
   invent a value, a threshold or a date.

9. Record the document's `from:` line at the top of the file, so it says which
   reference process and which version it was generated from.

10. Run-scoped lines under `run-scoped:` are work that runs alongside the whole
    process rather than at one point in it, and a run may not close while one is
    unfinished. Say in the code what you did about them, including if the answer
    is that the runtime has nowhere to put them.

HOW THAT LOOKS IN LANGGRAPH

11. A phase is a node added with `add_node`, under the phase's own name.

12. The state is a TypedDict. Each handoff key is one field on it.

13. A join is the trap. `add_edge(["a", "b"], "c")` looks right and releases
    once: when a backward edge re-enters ONE arm, the joined node never runs
    again, and the run ends early reporting success rather than raising. Mark the
    joined node `defer=True` and re-check inside it that both inbound handoffs
    exist.

14. A gate is `interrupt()` inside the node, resumed with `Command(resume=...)`.
    The platform lets anything at all call resume, so require the resumed value to
    name a person and a date and refuse anything else. Say in the fidelity note
    that this proves only that whoever resumed typed a name, because
    `Command(resume=True)` from a scheduled job is indistinguishable from a person
    signing.

15. A deviation is `add_conditional_edges` with a routing function named after
    the key in brackets.

16. Pass a durable checkpointer rather than taking the in-memory default. The
    gates wait days, and the default loses every paused run on restart.

17. Leave every phase body unimplemented, raising until somebody registers an
    implementation. The automation level is a blank, so writing a body would
    answer on the adopter's behalf whether an agent may do that work.

Produce a second file alongside it, `FIDELITY.md`, and treat it as the more
important of the two. The code is for whoever builds this. The fidelity note
is for whoever has to decide whether this platform suits the process at all,
and that is usually a different person who will never read the code.

It has three parts.

**What came across.** Briefly: how many phases became steps, how many handoff
keys became state fields, which gates stop the run, which deviations became
edges. Counts and names, not reassurance.

**What did not, and what was done instead.** One entry per gap. For each one,
say what the document requires, what the platform can actually express, what
you did in its place, and what breaks if somebody later removes your
workaround. This last part matters most: a workaround nobody understands is a
workaround somebody deletes.

**What a person still has to decide.** The blanks are not a translation
failure, they are the point of a reference process, so list what has to be
filled in before this could run against anything real, and say which of those
choices the platform constrains.

Write it in plain English for somebody who has not read the specification, and
do not soften it. A translation of a reference process is a draft to argue
with, not a build artifact, and the honest account of what was lost is the most
useful thing you will produce.

Here is the process document.

```
PROCESS: prioritize initiatives    id: <team>/prioritize-initiatives   v1
from: ref/mkt/prioritize-initiatives v1
owner: <who>                          effective: <date>
trigger: the prioritization round opens on <your cadence>, or the queue
         passes <how many> waiting requests
         watch: every=<your cadence>
         or watch: record=<the request queue>
                system=<your request queue>
                change=<the number of waiting requests passes the
                threshold the trigger names>
concurrency: one round at a time - a request arriving mid-round waits for
         the next one unless <who> reopens the ranking
goal: a ranked list of requests, a commitment line drawn on it with the
      agents and the money behind every item above the line, and a
      recorded decline with its reason for every item below it
phases:
  open-round       - human: say what the round covers, which period it
                     commits, and the date the answers go out
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: trigger
                     automation: <level>
  take-requests    - human: every request written in the same form, with
                     what it is for, who it is for, and when it is needed
                     owner: capacity-manager      after: open-round
                     by: <the cut-off date>       automation: <level>
  screen-requests  - runs assessment: each request scored against what a
                     request has to say before it can be judged
                     owner: capacity-manager      after: take-requests
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  read-committed   - runs collect-and-report: every run in flight, what
                     it still owes, when it finishes, what it has drawn
                     owner: capacity-manager      after: open-round
                     by: <the cut-off date>       automation: <level>
  read-free        - runs roll-call: each delivery agent says what it can
                     take on and what it is already holding
                     owner: capacity-manager      after: read-committed
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  weigh-goals      - human: how far each request moves a goal the
                     department is already held to, with the number
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: screen-requests
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  number-requests  - runs build-by-talent: the cost and the return on
                     each request that can carry a number
                     owner: forecaster            after: screen-requests
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  check-standards  - runs assessment: each request read against the
                     positioning and the customer profile at their
                     versions
                     owner: standards-keeper      after: screen-requests
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  rank-requests    - human: one ordered list, with the reason each
                     request sits where it sits
                     owner: decision-coordinator
                     after: weigh-goals + number-requests +
                            check-standards
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  choose-commit    - convenes decide-and-announce: <who> says how far
                     down the list the department commits
                     owner: decision-coordinator
                     after: rank-requests + read-free
                     automation: never
  resource-commit  - convenes approval: the agents, the dates and the
                     money signed against a version of the list
                     owner: <your finance role>   after: choose-commit
                     by: <days>                   automation: never
  settle-displaced - convenes decide-and-announce: which work already
                     underway stops, which waits, and what that costs
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: resource-commit
                     automation: never
  record-declines  - human: every request that was not committed, with
                     the reason it was not and where it sat in the list
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: choose-commit
                     automation: <level>
  tell-requesters  - human: each requester is told the answer to their
                     request and the reason under it
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: record-declines
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  hand-over        - convenes briefing: each running agent hears what it
                     has been given, with what, and by when
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: settle-displaced
                     automation: <level>
  record-basis     - convenes debrief: the assumptions the ranking rests
                     on, and what would reopen it before the next round
                     owner: decision-coordinator
                     after: hand-over + tell-requesters
                     automation: <level>
run-scoped:
  queue  - runs roll-call                       owner: capacity-manager
           every: <cadence>
           from: take-requests   until: run close
  budget - runs allocate-and-reconcile          owner: budget-keeper
           from: resource-commit   until: run close
handoffs:
  open-round -> take-requests [round-scope]: the period the round
    commits, and the date requests stop being taken in for it
  take-requests -> screen-requests [logged-requests]: every request in
    the same form, so two requests can be compared without rewriting
    either one
  screen-requests -> weigh-goals [judgeable-requests]: the requests
    that can be judged, with the repeats merged and the returned ones
    marked as returned
  read-committed -> read-free [work-in-flight]: what every run in
    flight still owes and when it finishes, in the units the requests
    are written in
  weigh-goals -> rank-requests [goal-movement]: the goal each request
    moves and by how much, with the source under the number
  number-requests -> rank-requests [cost-and-return]: the cost and the
    return on each request, with every assumption written beside the
    number it drives
  check-standards -> rank-requests [standards-findings]: the requests
    that sit outside the positioning, or reach an audience the profile
    does not cover
  rank-requests -> choose-commit [ranked-list]: the ordered list, with
    the reason for each place and the capacity each item would take
  read-free -> choose-commit [free-capacity]: what the department has
    room for in the period, in the units the list is written in
  choose-commit -> resource-commit [commitment-line]: the line drawn on
    the list, naming who drew it and on what date
  choose-commit -> record-declines [below-the-line]: everything that
    sits below the line
  resource-commit -> settle-displaced [resourced-commitments]: the
    commitments that do not fit beside the work already underway
  settle-displaced -> hand-over [displacement-decisions]: what stopped,
    what waits, and the new date on anything that moved
  record-declines -> tell-requesters [decline-reasons]: the answer for
    each request, with its reason, ready to go to the person who asked
deviations:
  screen-requests -> take-requests [request-incomplete]: something the
    round needs to judge the request is missing, so it goes back to the
    person who asked and keeps its place in the queue
  rank-requests -> number-requests [missing-number]: a request cannot
    be placed without a number, so it is costed again before the list
    is ordered
  choose-commit -> rank-requests [line-misses-the-goals]: nothing above
    the line reaches the goals, so the list is ranked again against
    what was said to be missing
  resource-commit -> choose-commit [money-falls-short]: the money will
    not cover the set, so the line moves up the list
  settle-displaced -> choose-commit [too-far-along-to-stop]: the
    displaced run is too far along to stop cheaply, so the choice is
    made again with the cost of stopping attached
  tell-requesters -> choose-commit [decline-escalated]: a requester
    escalates a decline, and reopening the choice means naming what
    comes off the list to make room
  hand-over -> choose-commit [capacity-was-wrong]: the agent cannot
    take the work after all, so the choice is made again with the
    corrected capacity figure
bindings:
  roster:  <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
           above, and named people for leadership, finance and the
           requesters>
  systems: the request queue (write), the capacity record (write),
           the budget record (write), the decision record (write),
           the plans and commitments (read), analytics (read),
           the notification channel (write)
  data:    the marketing plan for the period and the goals it set,
           <your positioning> <version>, <your customer profile>
           <version>, the request queue as it stood at the cut-off
policy:
  every request gets a recorded answer, and a request that is not
    committed is recorded as declined with the reason it was declined
  no request is committed past the free capacity the round reported
    unless <who> records the overcommitment as a decision of their own
  the money behind a commitment is confirmed by a person, and no agent
    confirms its own number
  stopping work already underway is a person's decision, recorded with
    what stopping it cost
  a request that arrives after the cut-off waits for the next round
    unless <who> reopens the ranking
measures:
  cycle time: <target> from the cut-off to the last requester told
  volume: <requests per round>, <commitments per round>
  quality gate: no request leaves the round without a recorded answer
```

Paste this into an assistant that can read the web, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. It reads the specification and the current Agent Framework documentation, then writes two files: the workflow, and a note on what did not survive the translation. Read the note first. What a runtime cannot express is the part worth arguing about, and this process is a draft to argue with.

Convert the business process below into a runnable Microsoft Agent Framework workflow:
one Python file with Executor classes, a WorkflowBuilder, typed edges,
request_info gates and durable checkpoint storage.

The document is a reference process written to the Agent Processes
specification. Read the specification before you start, because it defines
terms that look ordinary and are not:

  https://agentcatalog.com/spec/agent-processes

Sections 6 (the phase graph), 6.5.1 (exception edges), 6.7.1 (deviations),
7 (automation) and 8 (handoffs) are the ones this conversion turns on.

Then read the current documentation for the primitives you will need, rather
than relying on what you remember of the API:

  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/workflows/human-in-the-loop
    ctx.request_info, @response_handler, and answering a parked run later
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/workflows/checkpoints
    what a checkpoint holds, and allowed_checkpoint_types
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/concepts/workflows/edges
    add_edge with condition, add_fan_in_edges, add_switch_case_edge_group
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/concepts/workflows/state
    ctx.set_state and ctx.get_state as they actually are today

WHAT THE DOCUMENT ASKS FOR

These hold wherever the process lands, and they matter more than style.

1. Each phase under `phases:` becomes one step, and keeps its name.

2. `after:` gives the edges. `after: a + b` is a join and waits for BOTH.
   Reading it as "either" is the defect the specification calls out by name.

3. Every handoff carries a key in square brackets. Each key becomes one field
   on the run's state, named exactly as the key with hyphens turned into
   underscores, and the sentence beside it becomes that field's comment. The key
   is the stable name; the sentence is prose that may be rewritten.

4. A phase MUST NOT begin before its inbound handoff exists. Where that is
   checkable, check it in the step rather than assuming it.

5. `automation: never` is a gate a person signs. The run stops there and does
   not continue until a person's decision comes back. Do not turn one into a
   notification, a log line, or an automatic transition, whatever the queue
   looks like.

6. Each line under `deviations:` is a backward or sideways edge, returning to
   the phase named on the right. The key in brackets names it, and that name
   belongs in the code.

7. A phase whose `after:` reads like "X or Y, whichever could not finish" is an
   exception edge: it is entered when those phases FAIL, not when they succeed.
   Do not wire it as an ordinary successor.

8. Anything in angle brackets is a blank the adopting organization fills in.
   Leave each one as a named constant at the top of the file with a TODO. Do not
   invent a value, a threshold or a date.

9. Record the document's `from:` line at the top of the file, so it says which
   reference process and which version it was generated from.

10. Run-scoped lines under `run-scoped:` are work that runs alongside the whole
    process rather than at one point in it, and a run may not close while one is
    unfinished. Say in the code what you did about them, including if the answer
    is that the runtime has nowhere to put them.

HOW THAT LOOKS IN MICROSOFT AGENT FRAMEWORK

11. Write for Python, and read those pages before writing a line. This API has
    moved: `set_shared_state`, `RequestInfoExecutor`, `RequestInfoMessage` and
    `send_responses_streaming` are all in the training data and none of them exist
    any more. The .NET workflow API differs in kind rather than in spelling, so a
    file written for one does not port by renaming.

12. A phase is a class deriving from `Executor` whose `super().__init__(id=...)`
    takes the phase name verbatim. The id is not cosmetic: a checkpoint stores a
    signature over the topology and the executor ids, so an id built from a run, a
    timestamp or a counter cannot be resumed into.

13. Give each phase a `@handler` method and move work on with
    `await ctx.send_message(...)`. A handler that returns without sending is a dead
    end: the branch stops, the run converges, and it reports success. So a phase
    you are deliberately leaving unimplemented must still send a placeholder
    onward. Do not stub with `raise NotImplementedError`, which fails the run
    instead of leaving it runnable.

14. `after: a` is `builder.add_edge(a, b)`. `after: a + b` is
    `builder.add_fan_in_edges([a, b], target)`, and the target's handler must be
    annotated `list[T]`, because a fan-in delivers one aggregated list rather than
    the separate messages. A handler typed for the single value is dropped as a
    mismatch with nothing raised.

15. The join is the trap here, and it is the opposite of LangGraph's. The
    barrier re-arms: it clears its buffer when it fires and then demands a fresh
    message from every source. So a deviation that re-enters ONE arm parks the
    run forever waiting for an arm that will not run again, and the workflow ends
    IDLE reporting success. Wherever a deviation re-enters one arm of a join,
    replace the barrier with an ordinary edge from each arm into a small executor
    that records each arrival with `ctx.set_state` and only forwards when every
    expected key is present, and say in a comment that putting `add_fan_in_edges`
    back reintroduces the stall.

16. A phase that is both a join target and a deviation target needs two
    handlers, one annotated `list[T]` for the barrier and one annotated `T` for the
    backward message. Write only the list handler and every backward edge into it
    is discarded as a type mismatch, silently.

17. `automation: never` is `await ctx.request_info(request_data=...,
    response_type=...)` inside the phase, answered by a `@response_handler` on the
    same executor whose annotations match those exact types. The run parks at
    `IDLE_WITH_PENDING_REQUESTS` and the host answers with
    `workflow.run(stream=True, responses={request_id: value})`. If no handler
    matches the pair, the framework logs a warning and parks anyway, so the gate
    reads as working right up until somebody asks why the approval did not take.

18. A gate is only a gate if the wait survives a restart, so pass
    `checkpoint_storage=FileCheckpointStorage(...)` to the builder. Checkpointing
    is off by default and `InMemoryCheckpointStorage` reads as configured while
    persisting nothing. Register every handoff payload type in
    `allowed_checkpoint_types`, or the first restore raises. Anything an executor
    keeps as an instance attribute is absent after a restore unless you export it
    from `on_checkpoint_save` and read it back in `on_checkpoint_restore`, and it
    comes back empty rather than missing.

19. Each line under `deviations:` is `builder.add_edge(source, earlier,
    condition=fn)` with `fn` named after the key. Cycles are legal and unchecked,
    but raise `max_iterations` well above its default of 100, because several live
    cycles will exhaust a budget sized for a straight line and fail with a message
    about convergence that reads like a broken graph. Keep the ordinary forward
    edge unconditional and add each deviation beside it: a condition that returns
    false is dropped with no event, so a forward path expressed as a condition
    dies silently on every normal run, which is most of them.

20. Handoff values go in `ctx.set_state(key, value)` and come back from
    `ctx.get_state(key)`, untyped and unchecked. A write is visible to its writer
    at once and to everyone else only in the next superstep, and two writers of one
    key in a superstep keep the last write. Never read a key in the same superstep
    another phase wrote it.

21. There are no timers, no deadlines and no scheduled wakes. Nothing in
    `run-scoped:` becomes an executor and `by:` has no expression at all, so write
    them as comments naming where they start and stop, and say plainly in the
    fidelity note that a run can close over an unfinished run-scoped line. Do not
    fake a deadline with a sleep inside a handler, which blocks the whole superstep
    barrier, and never let an expiring wait release a gate.

Produce a second file alongside it, `FIDELITY.md`, and treat it as the more
important of the two. The code is for whoever builds this. The fidelity note
is for whoever has to decide whether this platform suits the process at all,
and that is usually a different person who will never read the code.

It has three parts.

**What came across.** Briefly: how many phases became steps, how many handoff
keys became state fields, which gates stop the run, which deviations became
edges. Counts and names, not reassurance.

**What did not, and what was done instead.** One entry per gap. For each one,
say what the document requires, what the platform can actually express, what
you did in its place, and what breaks if somebody later removes your
workaround. This last part matters most: a workaround nobody understands is a
workaround somebody deletes.

**What a person still has to decide.** The blanks are not a translation
failure, they are the point of a reference process, so list what has to be
filled in before this could run against anything real, and say which of those
choices the platform constrains.

Write it in plain English for somebody who has not read the specification, and
do not soften it. A translation of a reference process is a draft to argue
with, not a build artifact, and the honest account of what was lost is the most
useful thing you will produce.

Here is the process document.

```
PROCESS: prioritize initiatives    id: <team>/prioritize-initiatives   v1
from: ref/mkt/prioritize-initiatives v1
owner: <who>                          effective: <date>
trigger: the prioritization round opens on <your cadence>, or the queue
         passes <how many> waiting requests
         watch: every=<your cadence>
         or watch: record=<the request queue>
                system=<your request queue>
                change=<the number of waiting requests passes the
                threshold the trigger names>
concurrency: one round at a time - a request arriving mid-round waits for
         the next one unless <who> reopens the ranking
goal: a ranked list of requests, a commitment line drawn on it with the
      agents and the money behind every item above the line, and a
      recorded decline with its reason for every item below it
phases:
  open-round       - human: say what the round covers, which period it
                     commits, and the date the answers go out
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: trigger
                     automation: <level>
  take-requests    - human: every request written in the same form, with
                     what it is for, who it is for, and when it is needed
                     owner: capacity-manager      after: open-round
                     by: <the cut-off date>       automation: <level>
  screen-requests  - runs assessment: each request scored against what a
                     request has to say before it can be judged
                     owner: capacity-manager      after: take-requests
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  read-committed   - runs collect-and-report: every run in flight, what
                     it still owes, when it finishes, what it has drawn
                     owner: capacity-manager      after: open-round
                     by: <the cut-off date>       automation: <level>
  read-free        - runs roll-call: each delivery agent says what it can
                     take on and what it is already holding
                     owner: capacity-manager      after: read-committed
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  weigh-goals      - human: how far each request moves a goal the
                     department is already held to, with the number
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: screen-requests
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  number-requests  - runs build-by-talent: the cost and the return on
                     each request that can carry a number
                     owner: forecaster            after: screen-requests
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  check-standards  - runs assessment: each request read against the
                     positioning and the customer profile at their
                     versions
                     owner: standards-keeper      after: screen-requests
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  rank-requests    - human: one ordered list, with the reason each
                     request sits where it sits
                     owner: decision-coordinator
                     after: weigh-goals + number-requests +
                            check-standards
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  choose-commit    - convenes decide-and-announce: <who> says how far
                     down the list the department commits
                     owner: decision-coordinator
                     after: rank-requests + read-free
                     automation: never
  resource-commit  - convenes approval: the agents, the dates and the
                     money signed against a version of the list
                     owner: <your finance role>   after: choose-commit
                     by: <days>                   automation: never
  settle-displaced - convenes decide-and-announce: which work already
                     underway stops, which waits, and what that costs
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: resource-commit
                     automation: never
  record-declines  - human: every request that was not committed, with
                     the reason it was not and where it sat in the list
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: choose-commit
                     automation: <level>
  tell-requesters  - human: each requester is told the answer to their
                     request and the reason under it
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: record-declines
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  hand-over        - convenes briefing: each running agent hears what it
                     has been given, with what, and by when
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: settle-displaced
                     automation: <level>
  record-basis     - convenes debrief: the assumptions the ranking rests
                     on, and what would reopen it before the next round
                     owner: decision-coordinator
                     after: hand-over + tell-requesters
                     automation: <level>
run-scoped:
  queue  - runs roll-call                       owner: capacity-manager
           every: <cadence>
           from: take-requests   until: run close
  budget - runs allocate-and-reconcile          owner: budget-keeper
           from: resource-commit   until: run close
handoffs:
  open-round -> take-requests [round-scope]: the period the round
    commits, and the date requests stop being taken in for it
  take-requests -> screen-requests [logged-requests]: every request in
    the same form, so two requests can be compared without rewriting
    either one
  screen-requests -> weigh-goals [judgeable-requests]: the requests
    that can be judged, with the repeats merged and the returned ones
    marked as returned
  read-committed -> read-free [work-in-flight]: what every run in
    flight still owes and when it finishes, in the units the requests
    are written in
  weigh-goals -> rank-requests [goal-movement]: the goal each request
    moves and by how much, with the source under the number
  number-requests -> rank-requests [cost-and-return]: the cost and the
    return on each request, with every assumption written beside the
    number it drives
  check-standards -> rank-requests [standards-findings]: the requests
    that sit outside the positioning, or reach an audience the profile
    does not cover
  rank-requests -> choose-commit [ranked-list]: the ordered list, with
    the reason for each place and the capacity each item would take
  read-free -> choose-commit [free-capacity]: what the department has
    room for in the period, in the units the list is written in
  choose-commit -> resource-commit [commitment-line]: the line drawn on
    the list, naming who drew it and on what date
  choose-commit -> record-declines [below-the-line]: everything that
    sits below the line
  resource-commit -> settle-displaced [resourced-commitments]: the
    commitments that do not fit beside the work already underway
  settle-displaced -> hand-over [displacement-decisions]: what stopped,
    what waits, and the new date on anything that moved
  record-declines -> tell-requesters [decline-reasons]: the answer for
    each request, with its reason, ready to go to the person who asked
deviations:
  screen-requests -> take-requests [request-incomplete]: something the
    round needs to judge the request is missing, so it goes back to the
    person who asked and keeps its place in the queue
  rank-requests -> number-requests [missing-number]: a request cannot
    be placed without a number, so it is costed again before the list
    is ordered
  choose-commit -> rank-requests [line-misses-the-goals]: nothing above
    the line reaches the goals, so the list is ranked again against
    what was said to be missing
  resource-commit -> choose-commit [money-falls-short]: the money will
    not cover the set, so the line moves up the list
  settle-displaced -> choose-commit [too-far-along-to-stop]: the
    displaced run is too far along to stop cheaply, so the choice is
    made again with the cost of stopping attached
  tell-requesters -> choose-commit [decline-escalated]: a requester
    escalates a decline, and reopening the choice means naming what
    comes off the list to make room
  hand-over -> choose-commit [capacity-was-wrong]: the agent cannot
    take the work after all, so the choice is made again with the
    corrected capacity figure
bindings:
  roster:  <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
           above, and named people for leadership, finance and the
           requesters>
  systems: the request queue (write), the capacity record (write),
           the budget record (write), the decision record (write),
           the plans and commitments (read), analytics (read),
           the notification channel (write)
  data:    the marketing plan for the period and the goals it set,
           <your positioning> <version>, <your customer profile>
           <version>, the request queue as it stood at the cut-off
policy:
  every request gets a recorded answer, and a request that is not
    committed is recorded as declined with the reason it was declined
  no request is committed past the free capacity the round reported
    unless <who> records the overcommitment as a decision of their own
  the money behind a commitment is confirmed by a person, and no agent
    confirms its own number
  stopping work already underway is a person's decision, recorded with
    what stopping it cost
  a request that arrives after the cut-off waits for the next round
    unless <who> reopens the ranking
measures:
  cycle time: <target> from the cut-off to the last requester told
  volume: <requests per round>, <commitments per round>
  quality gate: no request leaves the round without a recorded answer
```

Paste this into an assistant that can read the web, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. It reads the specification and the current CrewAI documentation, then writes two files: the flow, and a note on what did not survive the translation. Read the note first. What a runtime cannot express is the part worth arguing about, and this process is a draft to argue with.

Convert the business process below into a runnable CrewAI Flow:
one Python file with a Pydantic state model, one Flow subclass, @start,
@listen, @router and a durable human feedback provider.

The document is a reference process written to the Agent Processes
specification. Read the specification before you start, because it defines
terms that look ordinary and are not:

  https://agentcatalog.com/spec/agent-processes

Sections 6 (the phase graph), 6.5.1 (exception edges), 6.7.1 (deviations),
7 (automation) and 8 (handoffs) are the ones this conversion turns on.

Then read the current documentation for the primitives you will need, rather
than relying on what you remember of the API:

  https://docs.crewai.com/en/concepts/flows
    Flow, @start, @listen, @router, and_, or_, state, kickoff, plot
  https://docs.crewai.com/en/learn/human-feedback-in-flows
    @human_feedback, the provider protocol, from_pending and resume
  https://docs.crewai.com/en/guides/flows/mastering-flow-state
    @persist and what persistence actually promises, which is less than it sounds

WHAT THE DOCUMENT ASKS FOR

These hold wherever the process lands, and they matter more than style.

1. Each phase under `phases:` becomes one step, and keeps its name.

2. `after:` gives the edges. `after: a + b` is a join and waits for BOTH.
   Reading it as "either" is the defect the specification calls out by name.

3. Every handoff carries a key in square brackets. Each key becomes one field
   on the run's state, named exactly as the key with hyphens turned into
   underscores, and the sentence beside it becomes that field's comment. The key
   is the stable name; the sentence is prose that may be rewritten.

4. A phase MUST NOT begin before its inbound handoff exists. Where that is
   checkable, check it in the step rather than assuming it.

5. `automation: never` is a gate a person signs. The run stops there and does
   not continue until a person's decision comes back. Do not turn one into a
   notification, a log line, or an automatic transition, whatever the queue
   looks like.

6. Each line under `deviations:` is a backward or sideways edge, returning to
   the phase named on the right. The key in brackets names it, and that name
   belongs in the code.

7. A phase whose `after:` reads like "X or Y, whichever could not finish" is an
   exception edge: it is entered when those phases FAIL, not when they succeed.
   Do not wire it as an ordinary successor.

8. Anything in angle brackets is a blank the adopting organization fills in.
   Leave each one as a named constant at the top of the file with a TODO. Do not
   invent a value, a threshold or a date.

9. Record the document's `from:` line at the top of the file, so it says which
   reference process and which version it was generated from.

10. Run-scoped lines under `run-scoped:` are work that runs alongside the whole
    process rather than at one point in it, and a run may not close while one is
    unfinished. Say in the code what you did about them, including if the answer
    is that the runtime has nowhere to put them.

HOW THAT LOOKS IN CREWAI FLOWS

11. Build a Flow, not a Crew. A Crew is a team of roles with no graph, no join,
    no persistence handle and no gate, and cannot express this document at all.
    Each phase is one method on a single `Flow` subclass, keeping its name with
    hyphens turned into underscores. A phase that genuinely needs role-based agents
    builds its own Crew inside its own method body, and the Flow stays the graph.

12. Declare the state as a Pydantic model bound as the type parameter,
    `class NegotiateTheAgreement(Flow[NegotiationState])`, and read and write
    `self.state.field`. Never use the untyped dict form: the handoff keys are this
    process's memory, and an untyped dict turns a misspelt key into a handoff that
    is silently absent. Keep the auto-injected `id` field, which is what every
    resume depends on.

13. `after: a` is `@listen(a)`. `after: a + b` is `@listen(and_(a, b))`. Never
    write `or_` where the document writes `+`.

14. Check every inbound handoff at the top of the method and raise if one is
    missing. `@listen` says when a method may run and says nothing about what is
    in hand when it does.

15. The join is the trap, and it is proven rather than theoretical. `and_()`
    empties its accumulator the moment it fires, so re-entering BOTH arms works
    forever, and re-entering ONE arm after it has fired leaves it holding a single
    trigger and waiting for the other for good. The cascade drains, CrewAI prints
    that the flow completed, and `kickoff()` returns normally. So for any joining
    phase that a deviation can send work back into, do not use `and_()` at all:
    make the join a `@router` that both arms trigger, which reads the state fields
    and emits its label only when every inbound handoff is present. A router is
    re-evaluated against durable state every time and is never suppressed by the
    once-fired set.

16. Do not write a phase as `@listen(or_(and_(a, b), "some_label"))`. There is
    one accumulator per listener, shared across every branch of its condition and
    wiped when any branch satisfies, so the label firing while the join is half
    full erases the arm that had already arrived.

17. `automation: never` is `@human_feedback(message=..., provider=...)` stacked
    under the method's `@listen`, with a provider whose `request_feedback` raises
    `HumanFeedbackPending`. The run then persists, returns that object from
    `kickoff()`, and a different process answers later with `from_pending(flow_id,
    persistence)` and `resume(text)`. Do not take the default `ConsoleProvider`,
    which calls `input()`: that gate exists only while somebody is watching a
    terminal, and a run started by a scheduler either hangs or takes an empty
    string.

18. Silence must not approve, and the platform's default is that it does. With
    `emit=[...]` set, an empty resume collapses to `default_outcome`, or to the
    first label when that is unset, with no model consulted and nobody named. Treat
    an empty or unrecognised answer as a refusal in your own router. And write the
    approver's name and the time onto the state yourself, because
    `HumanFeedbackResult` carries the text, the outcome and a timestamp but has no
    field for the person, which the specification requires.

19. Each line under `deviations:` is a `@router` named after the key, returning
    a label named after the same key, with the target subscribing as
    `@listen(or_(normal_trigger, "the_label"))`. Route rather than listen
    directly, because a router is re-evaluated on every cycle while a top-level
    `or_` listener is suppressed after it first fires.

20. An exception edge is a `try` and `except` around the failing phase's body,
    recording the failure on the state and emitting an exception label from a
    router. Wiring it as `@listen(or_(x, y))` fires when those phases SUCCEED, so
    the clearing phase would run on every healthy run.

21. An unimplemented phase is a method with the document's own sentence as its
    docstring and a bare `pass`, which is safe because listeners still fire on a
    `None` return. An unimplemented `@router` is not safe: returning `None` emits
    no label, every phase below it disappears from the run including the gates, and
    the flow reports success. A stub router must return a hard-coded label with a
    TODO beside it, or raise.

22. Turn persistence on with `@persist(SQLiteFlowPersistence(...))`, then treat
    every phase that performs a real act as something that will run twice.
    Persistence saves the state fields and nothing else, so a restart rehydrates
    the data and runs the graph again from `@start`: a flow that had already sent a
    written refusal sends a second one. Guard each acting phase with a state field
    it checks and sets.

23. There are no timers, no deadlines and no cadences, and `run-scoped:` has no
    counterpart at all. Put each `by:` value as a named constant, name the
    run-scoped lines in the module docstring as unimplemented obligations, and say
    in the fidelity note that no deadline in this document is enforced by anything.
    These absences produce no diagnostic whatsoever, which is exactly why they have
    to be written down.

Produce a second file alongside it, `FIDELITY.md`, and treat it as the more
important of the two. The code is for whoever builds this. The fidelity note
is for whoever has to decide whether this platform suits the process at all,
and that is usually a different person who will never read the code.

It has three parts.

**What came across.** Briefly: how many phases became steps, how many handoff
keys became state fields, which gates stop the run, which deviations became
edges. Counts and names, not reassurance.

**What did not, and what was done instead.** One entry per gap. For each one,
say what the document requires, what the platform can actually express, what
you did in its place, and what breaks if somebody later removes your
workaround. This last part matters most: a workaround nobody understands is a
workaround somebody deletes.

**What a person still has to decide.** The blanks are not a translation
failure, they are the point of a reference process, so list what has to be
filled in before this could run against anything real, and say which of those
choices the platform constrains.

Write it in plain English for somebody who has not read the specification, and
do not soften it. A translation of a reference process is a draft to argue
with, not a build artifact, and the honest account of what was lost is the most
useful thing you will produce.

Here is the process document.

```
PROCESS: prioritize initiatives    id: <team>/prioritize-initiatives   v1
from: ref/mkt/prioritize-initiatives v1
owner: <who>                          effective: <date>
trigger: the prioritization round opens on <your cadence>, or the queue
         passes <how many> waiting requests
         watch: every=<your cadence>
         or watch: record=<the request queue>
                system=<your request queue>
                change=<the number of waiting requests passes the
                threshold the trigger names>
concurrency: one round at a time - a request arriving mid-round waits for
         the next one unless <who> reopens the ranking
goal: a ranked list of requests, a commitment line drawn on it with the
      agents and the money behind every item above the line, and a
      recorded decline with its reason for every item below it
phases:
  open-round       - human: say what the round covers, which period it
                     commits, and the date the answers go out
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: trigger
                     automation: <level>
  take-requests    - human: every request written in the same form, with
                     what it is for, who it is for, and when it is needed
                     owner: capacity-manager      after: open-round
                     by: <the cut-off date>       automation: <level>
  screen-requests  - runs assessment: each request scored against what a
                     request has to say before it can be judged
                     owner: capacity-manager      after: take-requests
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  read-committed   - runs collect-and-report: every run in flight, what
                     it still owes, when it finishes, what it has drawn
                     owner: capacity-manager      after: open-round
                     by: <the cut-off date>       automation: <level>
  read-free        - runs roll-call: each delivery agent says what it can
                     take on and what it is already holding
                     owner: capacity-manager      after: read-committed
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  weigh-goals      - human: how far each request moves a goal the
                     department is already held to, with the number
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: screen-requests
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  number-requests  - runs build-by-talent: the cost and the return on
                     each request that can carry a number
                     owner: forecaster            after: screen-requests
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  check-standards  - runs assessment: each request read against the
                     positioning and the customer profile at their
                     versions
                     owner: standards-keeper      after: screen-requests
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  rank-requests    - human: one ordered list, with the reason each
                     request sits where it sits
                     owner: decision-coordinator
                     after: weigh-goals + number-requests +
                            check-standards
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  choose-commit    - convenes decide-and-announce: <who> says how far
                     down the list the department commits
                     owner: decision-coordinator
                     after: rank-requests + read-free
                     automation: never
  resource-commit  - convenes approval: the agents, the dates and the
                     money signed against a version of the list
                     owner: <your finance role>   after: choose-commit
                     by: <days>                   automation: never
  settle-displaced - convenes decide-and-announce: which work already
                     underway stops, which waits, and what that costs
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: resource-commit
                     automation: never
  record-declines  - human: every request that was not committed, with
                     the reason it was not and where it sat in the list
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: choose-commit
                     automation: <level>
  tell-requesters  - human: each requester is told the answer to their
                     request and the reason under it
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: record-declines
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  hand-over        - convenes briefing: each running agent hears what it
                     has been given, with what, and by when
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: settle-displaced
                     automation: <level>
  record-basis     - convenes debrief: the assumptions the ranking rests
                     on, and what would reopen it before the next round
                     owner: decision-coordinator
                     after: hand-over + tell-requesters
                     automation: <level>
run-scoped:
  queue  - runs roll-call                       owner: capacity-manager
           every: <cadence>
           from: take-requests   until: run close
  budget - runs allocate-and-reconcile          owner: budget-keeper
           from: resource-commit   until: run close
handoffs:
  open-round -> take-requests [round-scope]: the period the round
    commits, and the date requests stop being taken in for it
  take-requests -> screen-requests [logged-requests]: every request in
    the same form, so two requests can be compared without rewriting
    either one
  screen-requests -> weigh-goals [judgeable-requests]: the requests
    that can be judged, with the repeats merged and the returned ones
    marked as returned
  read-committed -> read-free [work-in-flight]: what every run in
    flight still owes and when it finishes, in the units the requests
    are written in
  weigh-goals -> rank-requests [goal-movement]: the goal each request
    moves and by how much, with the source under the number
  number-requests -> rank-requests [cost-and-return]: the cost and the
    return on each request, with every assumption written beside the
    number it drives
  check-standards -> rank-requests [standards-findings]: the requests
    that sit outside the positioning, or reach an audience the profile
    does not cover
  rank-requests -> choose-commit [ranked-list]: the ordered list, with
    the reason for each place and the capacity each item would take
  read-free -> choose-commit [free-capacity]: what the department has
    room for in the period, in the units the list is written in
  choose-commit -> resource-commit [commitment-line]: the line drawn on
    the list, naming who drew it and on what date
  choose-commit -> record-declines [below-the-line]: everything that
    sits below the line
  resource-commit -> settle-displaced [resourced-commitments]: the
    commitments that do not fit beside the work already underway
  settle-displaced -> hand-over [displacement-decisions]: what stopped,
    what waits, and the new date on anything that moved
  record-declines -> tell-requesters [decline-reasons]: the answer for
    each request, with its reason, ready to go to the person who asked
deviations:
  screen-requests -> take-requests [request-incomplete]: something the
    round needs to judge the request is missing, so it goes back to the
    person who asked and keeps its place in the queue
  rank-requests -> number-requests [missing-number]: a request cannot
    be placed without a number, so it is costed again before the list
    is ordered
  choose-commit -> rank-requests [line-misses-the-goals]: nothing above
    the line reaches the goals, so the list is ranked again against
    what was said to be missing
  resource-commit -> choose-commit [money-falls-short]: the money will
    not cover the set, so the line moves up the list
  settle-displaced -> choose-commit [too-far-along-to-stop]: the
    displaced run is too far along to stop cheaply, so the choice is
    made again with the cost of stopping attached
  tell-requesters -> choose-commit [decline-escalated]: a requester
    escalates a decline, and reopening the choice means naming what
    comes off the list to make room
  hand-over -> choose-commit [capacity-was-wrong]: the agent cannot
    take the work after all, so the choice is made again with the
    corrected capacity figure
bindings:
  roster:  <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
           above, and named people for leadership, finance and the
           requesters>
  systems: the request queue (write), the capacity record (write),
           the budget record (write), the decision record (write),
           the plans and commitments (read), analytics (read),
           the notification channel (write)
  data:    the marketing plan for the period and the goals it set,
           <your positioning> <version>, <your customer profile>
           <version>, the request queue as it stood at the cut-off
policy:
  every request gets a recorded answer, and a request that is not
    committed is recorded as declined with the reason it was declined
  no request is committed past the free capacity the round reported
    unless <who> records the overcommitment as a decision of their own
  the money behind a commitment is confirmed by a person, and no agent
    confirms its own number
  stopping work already underway is a person's decision, recorded with
    what stopping it cost
  a request that arrives after the cut-off waits for the next round
    unless <who> reopens the ranking
measures:
  cycle time: <target> from the cut-off to the last requester told
  volume: <requests per round>, <commitments per round>
  quality gate: no request leaves the round without a recorded answer
```

Paste this into an assistant that can read the web, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. It reads the specification and the current ADK documentation, then writes two files: the workflow, and a note on what did not survive the translation. Read the note first. What a runtime cannot express is the part worth arguing about, and this process is a draft to argue with.

Convert the business process below into a runnable Google ADK workflow:
one Python file with a Workflow, nodes, routed edges, a JoinNode,
RequestInput gates and a persisting session service.

The document is a reference process written to the Agent Processes
specification. Read the specification before you start, because it defines
terms that look ordinary and are not:

  https://agentcatalog.com/spec/agent-processes

Sections 6 (the phase graph), 6.5.1 (exception edges), 6.7.1 (deviations),
7 (automation) and 8 (handoffs) are the ones this conversion turns on.

Then read the current documentation for the primitives you will need, rather
than relying on what you remember of the API:

  https://adk.dev/graphs/routes/
    nodes, tuple chains, Event(route=), JoinNode, back-edges
  https://adk.dev/graphs/human-input/
    RequestInput and the rerun_on_resume handoff
  https://adk.dev/runtime/resume/
    ResumabilityConfig, resuming by invocation id, at-least-once tools
  https://adk.dev/graphs/data-handling/
    Event.output against state, and the selector syntax in instructions

WHAT THE DOCUMENT ASKS FOR

These hold wherever the process lands, and they matter more than style.

1. Each phase under `phases:` becomes one step, and keeps its name.

2. `after:` gives the edges. `after: a + b` is a join and waits for BOTH.
   Reading it as "either" is the defect the specification calls out by name.

3. Every handoff carries a key in square brackets. Each key becomes one field
   on the run's state, named exactly as the key with hyphens turned into
   underscores, and the sentence beside it becomes that field's comment. The key
   is the stable name; the sentence is prose that may be rewritten.

4. A phase MUST NOT begin before its inbound handoff exists. Where that is
   checkable, check it in the step rather than assuming it.

5. `automation: never` is a gate a person signs. The run stops there and does
   not continue until a person's decision comes back. Do not turn one into a
   notification, a log line, or an automatic transition, whatever the queue
   looks like.

6. Each line under `deviations:` is a backward or sideways edge, returning to
   the phase named on the right. The key in brackets names it, and that name
   belongs in the code.

7. A phase whose `after:` reads like "X or Y, whichever could not finish" is an
   exception edge: it is entered when those phases FAIL, not when they succeed.
   Do not wire it as an ordinary successor.

8. Anything in angle brackets is a blank the adopting organization fills in.
   Leave each one as a named constant at the top of the file with a TODO. Do not
   invent a value, a threshold or a date.

9. Record the document's `from:` line at the top of the file, so it says which
   reference process and which version it was generated from.

10. Run-scoped lines under `run-scoped:` are work that runs alongside the whole
    process rather than at one point in it, and a run may not close while one is
    unfinished. Say in the code what you did about them, including if the answer
    is that the runtime has nowhere to put them.

HOW THAT LOOKS IN GOOGLE ADK

11. Build a `Workflow` from `google.adk.workflow`, and pin `google-adk>=2.0` in
    a comment. Do not use `SequentialAgent`, `ParallelAgent` or `LoopAgent`: they
    are deprecated in favour of the graph, and they carry their own defects around
    state and control flow. The documentation moved to adk.dev, and anything you
    remember about nesting agents rather than drawing a graph is out of date.

12. Each phase is one node keeping its name. Take the node kind from how the
    phase resolves rather than from taste: a `human:` or `system:` phase is a plain
    Python function node, and a `runs` or `convenes` phase is an `Agent`.

13. `after:` gives the edges, written as tuple chains in `edges=[...]`, and the
    trigger is the `"START"` keyword. Take the order only from `after:` lines and
    never from the order the phases are listed in.

14. `after: a + b` is a `JoinNode`, and it must be guarded, because this is the
    worst trap of any runtime here. The join fires when every static predecessor is
    marked COMPLETED, nothing ever un-completes a node, and stored outputs are
    never cleared. So after a deviation re-runs one arm, the join fires the instant
    that arm finishes and hands the next phase LAST PASS'S value for every arm that
    did not re-run. It does not stall, it proceeds with stale data, and nothing
    logs. Stamp each arm's output with a pass counter or a content hash, and have
    the phase after the join compare the stamps and refuse to run when they
    disagree.

15. Each line under `deviations:` is a routed back-edge: a router after the
    phase on the left returning `Event(route=...)`, named after the key in
    brackets, with one arm going back to the phase on the right and one going
    forward. An unconditional cycle raises at construction, which is the one place
    this model checks your work. Nothing budgets a routed cycle, so add your own
    count and stop rather than looping forever.

16. Give every router an explicit `DEFAULT_ROUTE` arm, and route it to a phase
    that stops and asks a person. A route value matching no key writes a log
    warning, ends that branch, and lets the run finish reporting success with the
    rest of the process never having happened.

17. `automation: never` is a `RequestInput` node of its own, never an `Agent`
    asking a question. Decorate it `@node(rerun_on_resume=False)` and yield
    `RequestInput(message=..., payload=..., response_schema=...)`, so the run
    stops, persists, and delivers the person's answer to the node's successor as
    its typed input. A resumed workflow runs its tools at least once, so any
    irreversible act needs its own duplicate guard.

18. Make the gates durable or say plainly that they are not. Wrap the graph in
    `App(..., resumability_config=ResumabilityConfig(is_resumable=True))` and pass
    a persisting session service, never the in-memory one. Note in the file that
    the command line and the web UI cannot resume a run, so whoever releases these
    gates needs an operator surface that somebody has to write.

19. Every `Agent` in the graph gets `mode="single_turn"` and no `sub_agents`.
    A non-empty `sub_agents` list silently adds a transfer tool, and a model that
    uses it runs a different agent in this node's place while the graph's outgoing
    edge fires on schedule regardless: the topology is honoured perfectly and the
    work belongs to somebody else.

20. Model failure as a route, not as an exception. A node that raises does not
    propagate: the failure is caught, recorded, and shuts the workflow down without
    raising to the caller. So a phase that can fail catches its own failure and
    returns `Event(route="could-not-finish")`, and the exception phase hangs off
    that arm.

21. Keep every blank as a named module-level constant and never interpolate one
    into an `instruction=` string. Angle brackets and curly braces are ADK's own
    data selector syntax inside instructions, so a blank pasted verbatim stops
    being a blank and becomes a selector.

22. `by:` and `not-before:` have no expression, and `@node(timeout=)` is not
    one: it is an in-process wall clock that cancels the node and, because failures
    are swallowed, ends the run silently rather than recording a missed deadline.
    Nothing in `run-scoped:` has an expression either, and it must not be faked as
    an ordinary node, because a node has to be reached and has to finish before
    anything downstream starts, which is the opposite of what those lines mean.
    Leave both out of the graph and name them in the fidelity note.

Produce a second file alongside it, `FIDELITY.md`, and treat it as the more
important of the two. The code is for whoever builds this. The fidelity note
is for whoever has to decide whether this platform suits the process at all,
and that is usually a different person who will never read the code.

It has three parts.

**What came across.** Briefly: how many phases became steps, how many handoff
keys became state fields, which gates stop the run, which deviations became
edges. Counts and names, not reassurance.

**What did not, and what was done instead.** One entry per gap. For each one,
say what the document requires, what the platform can actually express, what
you did in its place, and what breaks if somebody later removes your
workaround. This last part matters most: a workaround nobody understands is a
workaround somebody deletes.

**What a person still has to decide.** The blanks are not a translation
failure, they are the point of a reference process, so list what has to be
filled in before this could run against anything real, and say which of those
choices the platform constrains.

Write it in plain English for somebody who has not read the specification, and
do not soften it. A translation of a reference process is a draft to argue
with, not a build artifact, and the honest account of what was lost is the most
useful thing you will produce.

Here is the process document.

```
PROCESS: prioritize initiatives    id: <team>/prioritize-initiatives   v1
from: ref/mkt/prioritize-initiatives v1
owner: <who>                          effective: <date>
trigger: the prioritization round opens on <your cadence>, or the queue
         passes <how many> waiting requests
         watch: every=<your cadence>
         or watch: record=<the request queue>
                system=<your request queue>
                change=<the number of waiting requests passes the
                threshold the trigger names>
concurrency: one round at a time - a request arriving mid-round waits for
         the next one unless <who> reopens the ranking
goal: a ranked list of requests, a commitment line drawn on it with the
      agents and the money behind every item above the line, and a
      recorded decline with its reason for every item below it
phases:
  open-round       - human: say what the round covers, which period it
                     commits, and the date the answers go out
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: trigger
                     automation: <level>
  take-requests    - human: every request written in the same form, with
                     what it is for, who it is for, and when it is needed
                     owner: capacity-manager      after: open-round
                     by: <the cut-off date>       automation: <level>
  screen-requests  - runs assessment: each request scored against what a
                     request has to say before it can be judged
                     owner: capacity-manager      after: take-requests
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  read-committed   - runs collect-and-report: every run in flight, what
                     it still owes, when it finishes, what it has drawn
                     owner: capacity-manager      after: open-round
                     by: <the cut-off date>       automation: <level>
  read-free        - runs roll-call: each delivery agent says what it can
                     take on and what it is already holding
                     owner: capacity-manager      after: read-committed
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  weigh-goals      - human: how far each request moves a goal the
                     department is already held to, with the number
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: screen-requests
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  number-requests  - runs build-by-talent: the cost and the return on
                     each request that can carry a number
                     owner: forecaster            after: screen-requests
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  check-standards  - runs assessment: each request read against the
                     positioning and the customer profile at their
                     versions
                     owner: standards-keeper      after: screen-requests
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  rank-requests    - human: one ordered list, with the reason each
                     request sits where it sits
                     owner: decision-coordinator
                     after: weigh-goals + number-requests +
                            check-standards
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  choose-commit    - convenes decide-and-announce: <who> says how far
                     down the list the department commits
                     owner: decision-coordinator
                     after: rank-requests + read-free
                     automation: never
  resource-commit  - convenes approval: the agents, the dates and the
                     money signed against a version of the list
                     owner: <your finance role>   after: choose-commit
                     by: <days>                   automation: never
  settle-displaced - convenes decide-and-announce: which work already
                     underway stops, which waits, and what that costs
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: resource-commit
                     automation: never
  record-declines  - human: every request that was not committed, with
                     the reason it was not and where it sat in the list
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: choose-commit
                     automation: <level>
  tell-requesters  - human: each requester is told the answer to their
                     request and the reason under it
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: record-declines
                     by: <days>                   automation: <level>
  hand-over        - convenes briefing: each running agent hears what it
                     has been given, with what, and by when
                     owner: decision-coordinator  after: settle-displaced
                     automation: <level>
  record-basis     - convenes debrief: the assumptions the ranking rests
                     on, and what would reopen it before the next round
                     owner: decision-coordinator
                     after: hand-over + tell-requesters
                     automation: <level>
run-scoped:
  queue  - runs roll-call                       owner: capacity-manager
           every: <cadence>
           from: take-requests   until: run close
  budget - runs allocate-and-reconcile          owner: budget-keeper
           from: resource-commit   until: run close
handoffs:
  open-round -> take-requests [round-scope]: the period the round
    commits, and the date requests stop being taken in for it
  take-requests -> screen-requests [logged-requests]: every request in
    the same form, so two requests can be compared without rewriting
    either one
  screen-requests -> weigh-goals [judgeable-requests]: the requests
    that can be judged, with the repeats merged and the returned ones
    marked as returned
  read-committed -> read-free [work-in-flight]: what every run in
    flight still owes and when it finishes, in the units the requests
    are written in
  weigh-goals -> rank-requests [goal-movement]: the goal each request
    moves and by how much, with the source under the number
  number-requests -> rank-requests [cost-and-return]: the cost and the
    return on each request, with every assumption written beside the
    number it drives
  check-standards -> rank-requests [standards-findings]: the requests
    that sit outside the positioning, or reach an audience the profile
    does not cover
  rank-requests -> choose-commit [ranked-list]: the ordered list, with
    the reason for each place and the capacity each item would take
  read-free -> choose-commit [free-capacity]: what the department has
    room for in the period, in the units the list is written in
  choose-commit -> resource-commit [commitment-line]: the line drawn on
    the list, naming who drew it and on what date
  choose-commit -> record-declines [below-the-line]: everything that
    sits below the line
  resource-commit -> settle-displaced [resourced-commitments]: the
    commitments that do not fit beside the work already underway
  settle-displaced -> hand-over [displacement-decisions]: what stopped,
    what waits, and the new date on anything that moved
  record-declines -> tell-requesters [decline-reasons]: the answer for
    each request, with its reason, ready to go to the person who asked
deviations:
  screen-requests -> take-requests [request-incomplete]: something the
    round needs to judge the request is missing, so it goes back to the
    person who asked and keeps its place in the queue
  rank-requests -> number-requests [missing-number]: a request cannot
    be placed without a number, so it is costed again before the list
    is ordered
  choose-commit -> rank-requests [line-misses-the-goals]: nothing above
    the line reaches the goals, so the list is ranked again against
    what was said to be missing
  resource-commit -> choose-commit [money-falls-short]: the money will
    not cover the set, so the line moves up the list
  settle-displaced -> choose-commit [too-far-along-to-stop]: the
    displaced run is too far along to stop cheaply, so the choice is
    made again with the cost of stopping attached
  tell-requesters -> choose-commit [decline-escalated]: a requester
    escalates a decline, and reopening the choice means naming what
    comes off the list to make room
  hand-over -> choose-commit [capacity-was-wrong]: the agent cannot
    take the work after all, so the choice is made again with the
    corrected capacity figure
bindings:
  roster:  <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
           above, and named people for leadership, finance and the
           requesters>
  systems: the request queue (write), the capacity record (write),
           the budget record (write), the decision record (write),
           the plans and commitments (read), analytics (read),
           the notification channel (write)
  data:    the marketing plan for the period and the goals it set,
           <your positioning> <version>, <your customer profile>
           <version>, the request queue as it stood at the cut-off
policy:
  every request gets a recorded answer, and a request that is not
    committed is recorded as declined with the reason it was declined
  no request is committed past the free capacity the round reported
    unless <who> records the overcommitment as a decision of their own
  the money behind a commitment is confirmed by a person, and no agent
    confirms its own number
  stopping work already underway is a person's decision, recorded with
    what stopping it cost
  a request that arrives after the cut-off waits for the next round
    unless <who> reopens the ranking
measures:
  cycle time: <target> from the cut-off to the last requester told
  volume: <requests per round>, <commitments per round>
  quality gate: no request leaves the round without a recorded answer
```