The Athenian agora wasn't a building. It was an open space where citizens gathered to think in public — argument, trade, philosophy, policy, all happening in the same place at once. Nobody scheduled it. The space was simply there, and showing up was the default.

Six posts in, I keep pointing at the same room and never walking into it.

I keep calling it the Spec Session. I've said it's where the team aligns before the agent runs. I've never once said what actually happens in there.

So here's the room.

The whole team gets in it — engineers, whoever carries the product thinking, sometimes a designer. A call works. A shared document works. The format isn't the point. The team takes one ticket and works it until everyone pictures the same thing when they read it.