Chapter
Coming from the eight tiers?
Every old tip kept its words and has a new home, and three tips are new. The tip map at the end lists every old tip number next to its new one.
| Old tier | New tier | Why it moved |
|---|---|---|
| T1 Professional Prompting | T1 Prompt | Renamed; also takes context hygiene from old T3 |
| T2 Shaping & Slicing | T2 Plan | Renamed; also takes knowledge encoding from old T3 |
| T3 Context Management | T1 Prompt + T2 Plan | Split: hygiene (the active window) → Prompt; knowledge (CLAUDE.md, Skills, MCP, memory) → Plan |
| T4 Loop Until Done | T3 Verify | Renamed; also takes checkpointing from old T5 |
| T5 Checkpointing & Hardening | T3 Verify + T4 Enforce | Split: checkpointing → Verify; hardening (hooks, CI, gh) → Enforce |
| T6 Orchestration | T5 Orchestrate | Renamed; also takes the parallel half of old T7 |
| T7 Fleet Ops | T5 Orchestrate + T6 Supervise | Split: parallel (terminal, a worktree per agent) → Orchestrate; always-on (box, phone, server) → Supervise |
| T8 Agent Execution Layer | T6 Supervise | Joined by old T7's always-on runs: from your box to the team's system |