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 # 49 — A phase runs itself, on a branch of its own
 
-**Status:** Backlog
+**Status:** To Do
+**Assignee:** istos
 **Priority:** High — the point of the whole thing: work that continues
 without you until something is genuinely wrong
 **Type:** Feature