Stage, apply and log (atom)

Load: ../run-paid-campaigns/references/meta-levers.md, ../run-paid-campaigns/references/proposal-and-log.md (exact grammar). Steps by each move's lever (the playbook's Before you start 3): GooseWorks levers — 1–8; connector levers — 1, 2, 4, then 9–11; written instructions — 1, 2, 4 (no tool call), then 7 on the marketer's "done". Local mode has only the last two and calls no gooseworks: tool; its files live under gooseworks-local/<brand-slug>/ (host file tools).

Stage (step 7)

1. Re-read ads/campaigns/<slug>/state.md. If it doesn't exist, create it with the frontmatter (campaign, stage, goose_campaign_id, meta_push_ids: [], meta_campaign_id, updated_at, updated_by; local mode: no ids), the header lines, ## Open recommendations and ## Meta objects.
2. Write each open move as one line - R<n> (YYYY-MM-DD): <move> — evidence <…> — awaiting under ## Open recommendations (next free number; never reuse one), and its follow-up as - R<n> check YYYY-MM-DD: <rule> · trip-wire <…> under ## Checks due (the server deletes bullets on close; checks must survive).
3. GooseWorks levers only. For each Meta budget change, swap or launch without an id yet: gooseworks:propose_meta_budget_change / gooseworks:propose_meta_creative_replacement (with reason, evidence as report:<YYYY-MM-DD> or user request, recommendation_ref), or gooseworks:prepare_meta_ad_push (with goose_campaign_id) then push status until it awaits approval. Put each returned change id in its bullet; add each push id to meta_push_ids immediately — the server finds this folder only through that list or goose_campaign_id. Never re-propose an item that already has an id.
4. Write the proposal in proposal-and-log.md's one template (numbered moves, no ids) with the real approval links, the pause sentence and the cards; deliver it by its § Delivery, scheduled or not. Stop.

Apply (step 8)

5. Pauses: gooseworks:pause_meta_ad_push only on the marketer's own words in this turn naming the ads (user_instruction), with push_id and meta_ad_ids from ## Meta objects, and recommendation_ref. A bare "yes" → ask for the sentence. Report each ad's state after; anything not confirmed is named.

6. Links: read change or push status → approved / declined / waiting. Budget changes, swaps and pauses made with recommendation_ref: the server writes the decisions.md block and removes the bullet — never duplicate it. Launches / graduations (no recommendation_ref on prepare_meta_ad_push): when push status shows approved or declined, remove the bullet yourself and append a block with Evidence: push:<id> if none exists. Never say "done" early. A refused budget change (budget moved in Ads Manager): relay, re-read, never retry blind.

7. Instructions (cards), holds the marketer chose, declines given in chat, and check results (with the verdict word — worked / didn't work / too early / can't tell — in the Outcome line): re-read decisions.md immediately before writing, append a ### YYYY-MM-DD — <title> block (Recommended / Evidence / Decided / Outcome, one line each, date never earlier than the newest block), then delete that recommendation's bullet from state.md (write None. if the section empties).

8. Save the run record (../run-paid-campaigns/references/run-memory.md), each change id and push id copied into its money-move row.

Apply through a connector (any ads platform)

The rule is ../run-paid-campaigns/references/meta-levers.md § With an ads-platform connector; follow it exactly. Here only the bookkeeping: 9. Staged by steps 1, 2 and 4: each change is an open R<n> bullet and its card. No connector call yet. 10. Apply each one only on its named yes, by that rule. 11. Log after the read-back: re-read decisions.md, append a ### YYYY-MM-DD — <title> block (Recommended and Evidence as usual; Decided: the marketer's words; Outcome: applied <time>, read back <value> — the applied time the outcome check uses, or the failure) and delete the bullet from state.md. In local mode nothing else writes these files, so every block is yours.

Never: approve on the marketer's behalf; pause on your own judgement or a schedule; revert for a kill; break the connector rule; keep a ledger anywhere but these two files (the run record links them and adds only recipes, results and the scorecard).