The last post covered the quality chain. This one is about visibility . An AI can push three features forward in an afternoon. If you can't tell where the project stands, what a change will touch, or how the last stretch went, the automation is running in a black box. pdlc has three tools for this: the statusline together with /pdlc-status , /pdlc-relate , and /pdlc-retro . They watch three timescales: right now, before a change, and month by month. Three tools, one data source...