Compass — where the goal lives.
You set the objective once. Compass is the part of the substrate that holds it in memory — tracking what's done, what changed, and what still needs you — while the crew works toward it.
Set a goal once and it stays alive — RHOBEAR tracks what's done, what changed, and what still needs you, instead of burying it all in a transcript.
A durable GoalState drives a LanePlan of LaneSteps through guarded states (pending → approved → running → done/blocked), with a continuation judge checking red/yellow/escalation policy before it proceeds.
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Plan approval and dispatch are deliberately separate. Approving a plan does not start work — /dispatch is its own owner-authed route, so a stray UI click can't silently launch agents. That separation is the whole point.
Today the planner is still mostly heuristic — keyword routing and string-splitting. The richer model-backed composer is designed but not mature everywhere yet. It plans reliably; it doesn't plan brilliantly yet.
