definition-of-ready

Set the bar a work item must clear before a builder can pick it up, generically and for THIS loop — what ready asserts and which of its criteria anything actually checks. Use when writing acceptance criteria, running intake, sizing a backlog, or diagnosing why in-progress work stalls on undecided scope. Not for what "done" means at delivery (see definition-of-done), or the state machine of who acts at each transition (see agents-configuration).