Lifecycle

Queued

Dormant. Nothing is asked of anyone.

Running

Active. The machine has it.

Needs input

A person is required.

Needs review

A person must decide, and it counts.

Done

Settled. Closed, quietly.

Failed

It broke. Signal red, reserved.

Decisions

Pending

aliases needs-input

Approved

aliases running

Denied

aliases needs-review

Expired

lapsed, not refused

Status is an outcome; state is a position. Use --status-* for whether a thing succeeded or failed, and --state-* for where a piece of work has got to. A run awaiting a person is not a warning, and an approval nobody answered is not a danger. Queued and done share a hue — both are states in which nothing is asked of anyone — so they are told apart by mark: a hollow ring against a filled dot. Never let colour be the only carrier of a state.