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 # The Novox repositories
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 | `hal` | The monorepo — the node runtime, the module catalogue, the delivery machinery, and the bootstrap scripts. Every core module lives here. |
 | `hq` | This repository, under the company organisation — mission, research, design, decisions, issue diagnosis. Company-scoped ([ADR 0019](../02-DECISIONS/0019-how-this-repository-works.md)); the mesh is its first product. The source of truth for *why*. Carries no implementation. |
 | *(one per application)* | Every standalone application, site or side-project gets its own repository, with `module.yml` at the root. Registered with the mesh as a build source; built and deployed by the same pipeline as anything in the monorepo. |
+| `migration` | **Private.** The record of one installation replacing the predecessor mesh with this one: the runbook, a dated log of every step and what it cost, the per-service data procedures, the readiness checks, and the scripts. Private because it is the opposite of this repository in every way that matters — it names machines, addresses, ports and paths, because a procedure that cannot be followed is not one. Where hq asks *what did we decide and why*, that repository answers *what happened on the machines, in what order, and what to do next*. Its `HANDOFF.md` is where somebody picking the work up starts. |
 
 ## What the mesh becomes