Explanation

Why it works

The principles behind crickets — why adversarial review, deterministic gates, and phase-gating — plus the founding scope.

What's here

• Purpose and scope — what crickets is for, and the public-with-PII-guardrails stance.
• Why adversarial review — why the reviewer is primed to assume bugs exist.
• Why deterministic gates run first — why executable checks precede LLM judgment.
• Why phase-gating — why one phase per session, with state on disk.

Recent changes

• 2026-06-08 — folded into why/; this index added.
• 2026-06-09 — Purpose and scope rewritten for v3.0; Cross-Repo-Memory-Protocol retired (memory is out of crickets scope).
• 2026-06-11 — why/ renamed to explanation/ under the seven-section frame (wiki-section-taxonomy dogfood).

See also

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