# The Lifecycle Lane One brain, driven through founding, a working day, a clean restart, a crash, a repair, and a second life, checked chapter by chapter against an independent shadow-model referee (`biographyHarness.ts`). It catches COMPOSITION regressions unit tests miss — a store fine in one process but broken across a restart/crash/repair. Runs on the plain JS engine, so it gates every commit. Run it: `npx vitest run tests/lifecycle --pool=forks` A red names the chapter label, the id, and expected-vs-actual — diagnosable from the message alone. `biography.test.ts` is split into two `it` blocks (Ch1-3, then Ch4-6) purely for reporting; it is still ONE fixed-order story. Chapters must never be reordered, skipped, or made conditional, and a failing chapter's assertion must never be weakened to force green.