Every decision is a record; the ledger is gone

papa-hq has no ledger. Its root is AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, README.md, every
decision is a numbered record, and its graduation playbook has no path for
an unrecorded decision. hal-hq now matches.

The ledger's 41 entries classified as: 10 restating a record, 11 restating
design docs, 15 describing how this repository works with the reasoning
sitting in a README rather than anywhere citable, 3 small rules with no
home, 2 superseded stubs. Mostly a copy — and a hand-maintained index, the
exact pattern ADR 0022 had just rejected for the decision index on the
grounds it drifted after one addition. Keeping one copy of that while
removing another is not a position. It also collided by name with
02-DECISIONS/ in any directory listing.

Nothing was dropped. Records 0019-0025 give the repository decisions the
reasoning they never had: HQ is its own repository and is public, design
has two layers, work moves through playbooks, status lives in frontmatter,
issues have a front door, the numbering is the flow, HQ is the source of
the constitution. 0026 records the ledger's own removal.

The three orphan rules went to how-we-build, where a rule is enforced and
keeps the incident that earned it — the package rule was genuinely
unwritten anywhere. Two lab decisions stated only in the ledger went into
the lab design. "Deliberately not decided" went to the research effort and
design document each question actually belongs to.

The chronological view the ledger provided is now generated from record
frontmatter, which is what it was for.

The cost, stated in 0026 rather than glossed: a record is more work than a
table row, so the risk is a small decision going unrecorded because nobody
wanted to write a document. how-we-build takes rules cheaply, which is the
mitigation, not a solution.
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declare is invisible to the mesh: it will not be generated, injected, or audited.
- **Provisioned credentials arrive through declared requirements**, never hardcoded in code,
compose files or scripts. [ADR 0005](../02-DECISIONS/0005-capabilities-are-provisioned-on-declaration.md)
- **Never install a package by hand.** A package is declared in the manifest and arrives the
way every other package does. A hand-installed package is invisible to the mesh: it is not
declared, not reproduced on the next node, and not present after a rebuild — and the node
works until it doesn't.
### Placement