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 # Job Wrapper v2 Plan
 
+## Required Reading
+
+Before implementing this plan, engineers should thoroughly understand these design documents:
+
+- **[DESIGN.md](../DESIGN.md)** - Overall DataBuild architecture and job execution model
+- **[design/core-build.md](../design/core-build.md)** - Core build semantics and job lifecycle state machines
+- **[design/observability.md](../design/observability.md)** - Observability strategy and telemetry requirements
+- **[design/build-event-log.md](../design/build-event-log.md)** - Event sourcing model and BEL integration
+- **[databuild.proto](../databuild/databuild.proto)** - System interfaces and data structures
+
 ## Overview
 The job wrapper is a critical component that mediates between DataBuild graphs and job executables, providing observability, error handling, and state management. This plan describes the next generation job wrapper implementation in Rust.
 
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 ### Phase 0: Minimal Bootstrap
 Implement the absolute minimum to unblock development and testing:
-- Simple JSON-based logging (no protobuf yet)
 - Basic wrapper that only handles happy path
 - Support for local execution only
 - Minimal log parsing in graph