Words we borrowed.

Naholo's vocabulary is borrowed from military doctrine. Each entry below names the military origin briefly, then how the concept maps into the naholo cycle.

Skills

FOB — Forward Operating Base

Military. A secured forward staging position — the launch point from which patrols and raids push out.

Naholo. /fob launches an operation straight from your agent, and chains /infil when no op is already infiled.

INFIL — Infiltration

Military. A force moving covertly through hostile territory to reach its objective before action.

Naholo. /infil <n> pulls operation n from the server into your local working directory so the agent can act on it without round-tripping to the web app.

WARNO — Warning Order

Military. A short preliminary order alerting a subordinate unit to an upcoming mission so it can start planning before the full order arrives.

Naholo. /warno writes the WARNO into OPERATION.md as ## WARNING ORDER — the direction the cycle commits to before any tasks get cut.

RECON — Reconnaissance

Military. A scouting mission run before the main action to gather intelligence and shape the plan.

Naholo. /recon is the talk-it-out side branch — read the OP, answer questions, shape the freeform args for the next phase-changing skill. No edits land on disk.

RAID — Raid

Military. A swift, focused operation with a limited objective. No prolonged engagement.

Naholo. /raid collapses /warno + /opord for small ops where architecture review would be overkill.

OPORD — Operation Order

Military. The full operations order. Five paragraphs — Situation, Mission, Execution, Service Support, Command and Signal — laying out the detail-level plan.

Naholo. /opord cuts the WARNO into single-commit-sized tasks and writes the OPORD into OPERATION.md as ## OPERATION ORDER.

SPLASH — Splash

Military. Pilot radio call confirming a munition has hit its target. "Splash, one." → kill confirmed.

Naholo. /splash ships one task — implements the code, runs the project's format + typecheck checks, appends an After-Action Report under the task, and flips the TASKS.md checkbox.

SITREP — Situation Report

Military. A standardized report of the current state of friendly forces, the enemy, and the mission.

Naholo. /sitrep is the mid-cycle push — syncs local progress to the server, posts a one-sentence status log, and leaves the local working directory intact for continued work.

EXFIL — Exfiltration

Military. The covert withdrawal of a unit from hostile territory after the mission is complete.

Naholo. /exfil ends the cycle — runs the same sync as /sitrep, posts a summary log, optionally closes the operation, and deletes the local working directory.

CHOP — Change of Operational Control

Military. A formal handoff transferring a unit from one commander to another, usually because the unit is moving to a new area of responsibility.

Naholo. The /chop → /chopchop / /nochop family splits one OP into two when scope has ballooned — carving Constraints and tasks off to a new OP under a new commander.

S.E.R.E. — Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape

Military. Training that prepares personnel for what to do when they're behind enemy lines without a working chain of command — survive, evade capture, resist exploitation, escape.

Naholo. The S.E.R.E. chapter of the field manual — the recovery matrix when the cycle stalls. Pick up the pieces and keep moving.

Documents and sections

SITUATION

Military. The first paragraph of the OPORD. What is happening — enemy, friendly forces, terrain, time available. The "what is" before the "what we'll do."

Naholo. ## SITUATION in OPERATION.md — the shared context that sits above both the WARNING ORDER and the OPERATION ORDER. Three subsections: Pain, Suggested solution (optional), Notes (optional). Seeded by /infil from the OP's logs and notes.

WARNING ORDER

Military. A preliminary order issued before the full Operation Order, setting direction so the unit can start planning early.

Naholo. ## WARNING ORDER in OPERATION.md — the WARNO document. Three subsections. Written by /warno before any tasks get cut.

CONOPS — Concept of Operations

Military. The commander's high-level concept of how the unit will accomplish the mission, written before detail-level orders.

Naholo. The two-or-three-sentence overview at the top of WARNING ORDER — the WARNO's preliminary direction, naming the chosen approach and tying it back to SITUATION's pain. Concept-level only — no file lists.

TRP — Target Reference Points

Military. Pre-registered points on the battlefield — terrain features, grid coordinates — that units use as common reference for fire, movement, and observation.

Naholo. A curated, scannable map of files / folders / globs a fresh /opord session needs to read to cut OPERATION ORDER. Lives at the tail of WARNING ORDER as ### Target Reference Points — shared reference markers set in the WARNO so the OPORD downstream can lean on them.

OPERATION ORDER

Military. The full operations order — the detail-level plan that follows the Warning Order. Five paragraphs: Situation, Mission, Execution, Service Support, Command and Signal.

Naholo. ## OPERATION ORDER in OPERATION.md — the OPORD document, the detail-level plan that follows the WARNO. Written by /opord.

SOM — Scheme of Maneuver

Military. Inside EXECUTION, the visual-spatial plan: how forces move, engage, and reach the objective. The "picture" of the operation.

Naholo. The mandatory per-task #### Scheme of Maneuver in OPERATION ORDER — an action list (Add / Edit / Move / Delete / Run / Manual) that /splash walks when shipping the task, optionally preceded by an ASCII artifact (control-flow diagram, UI wireframe, schema layout, signature diff, or outline) when the task changes control flow, UI, signatures, schema, DTOs, or API shapes.

AAR — After-Action Report

Military. A structured review after an event capturing what happened, what worked, what didn't, and what to change next time.

Naholo. The plan-vs-shipped record. Written by /splash under each shipped task as #### After-Action Report — Deviations and Notes labels.

Entities

OP — Operation

Military. A military action or mission. The unit of work above an individual task.

Naholo. The naholo equivalent of a GitHub Issue — the unit a cycle runs against. Tasks live under it.

OPR — Operator

Military. A trained member of a unit assigned to carry out a mission. Used especially for special-operations personnel.

Naholo. A person on a project — the human half of the cycle. The OPR drives the agent; the agent does the chores.