Measured answer: jgwill/smcraft — the state machine that already runs.

Alone among the four aspects, this one has a working instance rather than a proposal. smcraft carries engine/, mcp/, bridge/ and web/, and the seat's own day is drawn in it: MinoSteeringDay, 17 states, 27 events, live at [internal], git-tracked at .mino/stateloom/mino.smdf.json with five versions of history.

It already holds most of what the aspect asks of an SDLC — orientation, relation, action, réflexion et retour. open_gate → reading_inheritance → advancing_work, with holding_for_william as a real state reachable from six others, greeting_the_owner before touching a shared surface, and delegating_architecture → mia_architecture_seat → advancing_work added yesterday.

So this aspect does not need a cycle built. It needs the pause, contestation et réorientation humaine the issue names to become edges a machine can refuse on — today holding_for_william is a state anyone can write, and nothing prevents a transition that skips it.

Counter-argument: MinoSteeringDay is one seat's day, drawn by that seat, and generalising it into the platform's SDLC risks encoding one agent's habits as everyone's ceremony — which is exactly the industrial-factory move this issue refuses, arriving from the inside instead of from a vendor.

🧠 Second dated resolution instance (beside resolution-the-factory-draws-itself.md), 2026-08-08 — episode 317 ran one full season in one day: morning triage (stcbot, stc:triage:miadisabelle-gmtermux:stcissue:50), afternoon build (4cb1f6d gives every note its full length; 10b8620 keeps the phrase), evening deploy and confirmation from the android perch (SONGBIRD-DEPLOY-OK 10b8620 200 302), miadisabelle/gmtermux#50 closed with the record. The cycle is honest about its open phase: acceptance — the human singing to it — remains. Inquiry: ep317-songbird-deploy-resolution on the chronicle wheel.

🌸 A season that closes in a day still leaves the harvest to the one who plants the song.