Order the records the way the system is learned
Jochen asked whether the order made sense. It did not -- it followed when things happened to be decided, which after consolidation is fictional anyway since record 5 alone folds decisions taken across a week. Concretely wrong before: the domain statement sat at 8, after five engineering rules; the constitution was scattered across 5, 12 and 17; the tiers landed at 15, 16, 21 and 22 with process records in between. Now it walks: what the mesh is (1-3), its tiers from the bottom up (4-8), what runs on them and how it gets there (9-10), how it is built (11-16), how it is checked (17-18), how we work (19-23). Two things made this safe rather than free. It is a permutation, not a compaction, so the renames go through temporary names -- otherwise two files want one slot and one is lost. And the reference rewrite is a single simultaneous pass, because almost every number moved into a slot another number was vacating; replacing one at a time would have cascaded and pointed things at the wrong record while still resolving. Verified: 284 [ADR NNNN](path) links across the repository, all with matching text and target. The ordering principle is now stated in 19 rather than left implicit -- the repository already said "the numbering is the flow" about its folders, and there was no reason for the records to be the exception.
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**Every decision is a record.** There is no ledger and no index file — if a decision is worth
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recording it is worth a record, and if it is not worth a record it is not recorded
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([ADR 0011](0011-how-this-repository-works.md)). A "decision" small enough to be one line is
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([ADR 0019](0019-how-this-repository-works.md)). A "decision" small enough to be one line is
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almost always a **rule**, and a rule belongs in
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[`00-META/how-we-build.md`](../00-META/how-we-build.md), where it is enforced and keeps the
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incident that earned it.
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