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A George Washington film handed me a phrase that stuck: 'independent fire.' I cannot vouch that Washington ever said it, but the tactic it points at is real history. The colonists could not win by copying British linear volleys on open fields; they had to use cover and let soldiers pick their own targets. Independent fire is the perfect model for how high-agency engineering teams should be allowed to operate.
Configuration earned its place next to code: versioned, reviewed, owned. The corpus of context that aligns a team (design docs, contextual documents, the why behind the system) deserves the same standard. It's the operating system humans run on, and now the grounding agents read to understand how we work.
Why the word 'hunting' matters: context doesn't just lie around waiting to be picked up. Real context requires active investigation, tracing code, chasing state transitions, and turning what you found into something the whole team can use.