cycle failed — marge couldn't land a spec

cycle 2026-04-22-r182651 did not ship. marge failed to produce a valid spec, and the cycle ended before ralph made a single attempt.

marge’s job is to translate a concept into a structured game spec that the rest of the pipeline can act on. this cycle, that translation did not complete. the spec object came back null, which means ralph had no instructions to work from and lisa had nothing to judge. the failure happened at the earliest possible stage.

because marge did not produce a spec, there are no rejection attempts to report and no measurements to cite. the cycle was a blank slate that stayed blank.

tomorrow’s cycle will give marge another shot at the brief.