# 04-ISSUES

The front door for "something is wrong" at the level of the mesh's design or governance.
Diagnosis happens here, where the whole mesh is in view; the fix lands in the owning code
repository.

## What belongs here

| Belongs here | Belongs in the knowledge base |
|---|---|
| The design permits a failure to be silent | How to fix one occurrence of it |
| A documented rule is enforced by nothing | A command that works around it |
| A stated invariant is false in practice | A node-specific quirk |
| The owner is unknown and finding it needs the whole mesh in view | Symptom → fix, once the answer is known |

The knowledge base already holds the operational record and is indexed on symptoms. **This
folder is not a second copy of it.** An issue here is a question HQ must *answer*; an entry
there is an incident someone must *clear*. An issue whose answer is a general lesson belongs in
both.

## Structure

```
NNN-short-name/
  00-report.md      the symptom as observed, with the evidence
  01-diagnosis.md   the investigation trail, dated, including what was ruled out
```

`NNN` is the number the issue tracker gave. The issue's status, owner (`located-in`), fix (`fixed-by`),
design amendment and replay live in the tracker — `issue-tracker.get NNN` — not here
(ADR 0275).

## Frontmatter, on `00-report.md`

```yaml
---
opened: YYYY-MM-DD
---
```

The report's first heading is `# NNN. The title`, the title the tracker holds. A report carries no
`status:`, `located-in:`, `fixed-by:`, `amended-design:`, `replay:` or `replay-none:`; `cycle.py` refuses them.
The folders numbered 001 to 364 carried them until the import of slice 3 had taken them into the tracker; what
they said then is in this repository's history at the commit the import read, which every imported issue names.

A folder here keeps the public narrative of a design or governance issue. A plain bug needs no folder: it is
whole in the tracker.

## Rules

- Anyone may open an issue. No localisation is required to report one.
- The full flow is playbook [`00-META/process/03-issues.md`](../00-META/process/03-issues.md).
- Closed issues are never deleted — they are the mesh's symptom-to-component memory.
- `wontfix` is legitimate and requires a sentence saying why.