The numbering is the flow: decisions are 02, design is 03

papa-hq reads 01 research -> 03 decision -> 02 design. The order is a
scar, not a choice: 02-DESIGN existed from its initial commit, and when
adr/ was finally promoted on 2026-07-13 it took the next free number
rather than its place in the sequence. By then design was too settled to
renumber.

hal-hq was three commits old, so it is not. adr/ becomes 02-DECISIONS and
02-DESIGN becomes 03-DESIGN, and following the folder numbers now walks
the process in the order it happens: research produces a decision, the
decision authorises a design.

00-GENESIS becomes 00-META, matching papa's rename from the same
restructure.

Every path reference rewritten across documents, frontmatter, playbooks
and skills. All links resolve; all 58 frontmatter blocks parse and their
path fields still point at files that exist.

02-DECISIONS/0007-no-npm-workspace.md

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+---
+status: accepted
+date: 2026-06-04
+deciders: jochen
+reconstructed: true
+---
+
+# 7. No workspace — each module is a standalone package consuming published dependencies
+
+> Reconstructed after the fact from the evidence cited below.
+
+## Context
+
+Modules depend on each other, above all on the shared library every module builds against.
+A workspace was the obvious way to express that: sibling packages, resolved locally, one
+install at the root.
+
+It produced a divergence that is worth stating precisely, because it is not obvious. In
+development, a workspace member importing a sibling resolves to that sibling's **local source**.
+In the pipeline, each module is built alone, from a clone, without its siblings present — so
+the same import resolves to the **published version**. The two environments were therefore
+building different code from identical source, and the failure appeared only in the pipeline,
+in a module that had not been touched.
+
+## Considered options
+
+1. **Keep the workspace and make the pipeline replicate it** — clone every module, build the
+   graph. Rejected: it makes every build a whole-repository build, which is the cost the
+   per-module pipeline exists to avoid, and it does not extend to modules in their own
+   repositories.
+2. **Keep the workspace and pin siblings to published versions.** Rejected as the worst of
+   both: the workspace's local resolution silently overrides the pin, so the divergence
+   remains while looking solved.
+3. **No workspace. Every module is standalone and consumes published dependencies.** Chosen.
+
+## Decision
+
+There is no workspace. Each module is an independent package that declares its dependencies
+and consumes them from the private registry, including the mesh's own shared library.
+
+A cross-package change is therefore two steps: publish the producer, then consume it. The
+pipeline does the first on push and resolves the levels so that a module always builds against
+its dependencies' freshly published versions.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- Development and the pipeline resolve imports identically. The divergence is gone by
+  construction rather than by discipline.
+- A module in its own repository is not a special case. It builds exactly as a module in the
+  monorepo does — which is what makes [ADR 0010](0010-applications-live-in-their-own-repository.md)
+  cheap.
+- A cross-package change costs a publish-and-consume round trip. This is the real price, paid
+  on every shared-library change.
+- There is no repository-wide install and no repository-wide build. Anything that assumed one
+  broke, and one thing that assumed one has stayed broken: the end-to-end pipeline harness has
+  not built since this decision landed. See
+  [`04-ISSUES/005`](../04-ISSUES/005-pipeline-test-harness-unbuildable/00-report.md).
+
+## References
+
+- `fix(noxflow): kill npm workspace, restore encryption inside PgAdminRepo` (#240),
+  2026-06-04. The reason is recorded in the root package manifest, which still carries the
+  note explaining why no workspace exists.
+- The divergence it fixed is named there: workspace members importing each other resolved to
+  local unbuilt source in the pipeline.