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ADR 0014 is accepted and unambiguous: each module consumes its dependencies from the private registry, the mesh's own shared library included, and a cross-package change is publish then consume. So the git dependency at a pinned commit is not a mechanism under consideration. It is the shared library being consumed a way the record rules out, and the lock naming a sibling directory is what that looks like when nobody publishes. Issue 053 is reclassified from a question about mechanism to a violation with a direction. What stays open is narrower and real: which software serves the private registry, and that a fresh mesh has none when the first SDK is built — ADR 0014 assumes one exists, and at genesis nothing has installed it. Recorded after arguing at length for a bespoke content-addressed alternative, against a decision that was already made and that I had not read. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01D6qtiYU3P9jk3pnAXyAFyx
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.