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The first live attempt at 5.2 found the half nobody had built. With the seat handed over on record and the new bus's module assigned beside the old one, the push was refused: not one user has a credential for the new bus. The check is right. A credential is minted only at enrolment, at `module issue` and for a person; nothing mints one for a machine already enrolled or for the control plane itself, and on the host the membership is written once at enrolment and never rewritten. So "move each machine" had no mechanism under it on either side. Written into 5.2 as the mechanism to build before anything moves: the control plane mints what is missing and delivers each plaintext where its owner reads it — a machine's as a sealed membership in its declaration, a module's as its broker secret, its own as its module secret — and the host saves a delivered membership and re-dials on it through the reconnect path it already has. 5.3 is ticked as built; 5.4's catalogue half is done and its live half waits on 5.2.
03-DESIGN
The authoritative specification. Implementation is built against what is written here.
Two layers
| Folder | What it is |
|---|---|
00-as-is/ |
The mesh that exists today. Shipped behaviour, described as it is — including behaviour nobody would choose again. |
01-to-be/ |
The mesh being built toward. Every statement traceable to a record in 02-DECISIONS/. |
They are never mixed. A statement about the future does not belong in an as-is document, and an as-is document is never edited to describe an intention.
When a to-be design ships, it does not move. Its as-is counterpart is written or updated,
the to-be document's status becomes implemented, and both stand — one describing what runs,
the other recording what was intended. Deleting the intention loses the reasoning, which is
the expensive half.
Frontmatter
Every design document (not the READMEs) carries:
---
layer: as-is | to-be
status: designed | in-progress | implemented | abandoned
code: [] # owning code repo(s), from 00-META/repos.md
updated: YYYY-MM-DD # date of the last status change, not of text edits
decisions: [] # 02-DECISIONS/ records this document rests on
---
For an as-is document, status: implemented is the normal state — it describes something that
runs — and code: names where that implementation lives.
Status changes when implementation state changes, never because design text was edited. An
implemented claim must be defensible from the owning repository's main branch, not from
intent. If it cannot be checked, it is in-progress.
Cross-cutting views are generated from this frontmatter by the hq-status skill and never
written to disk.
What belongs here
Functional analysis, architectural description, and specification — prose and diagrams
only, no code. A manifest field may be named; a manifest may not be pasted. A document
enters the to-be layer only after the decision behind it is recorded in 02-DECISIONS/
and the research that produced it is closed.
Subfolders are encouraged where a layer grows enough to need them.