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jschoubben 333356cff3 Order the records the way the system is learned
Jochen asked whether the order made sense. It did not -- it followed when
things happened to be decided, which after consolidation is fictional anyway
since record 5 alone folds decisions taken across a week.

Concretely wrong before: the domain statement sat at 8, after five engineering
rules; the constitution was scattered across 5, 12 and 17; the tiers landed at
15, 16, 21 and 22 with process records in between.

Now it walks: what the mesh is (1-3), its tiers from the bottom up (4-8), what
runs on them and how it gets there (9-10), how it is built (11-16), how it is
checked (17-18), how we work (19-23).

Two things made this safe rather than free. It is a permutation, not a
compaction, so the renames go through temporary names -- otherwise two files
want one slot and one is lost. And the reference rewrite is a single
simultaneous pass, because almost every number moved into a slot another number
was vacating; replacing one at a time would have cascaded and pointed things at
the wrong record while still resolving.

Verified: 284 [ADR NNNN](path) links across the repository, all with matching
text and target.

The ordering principle is now stated in 19 rather than left implicit -- the
repository already said "the numbering is the flow" about its folders, and
there was no reason for the records to be the exception.
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# 03-DESIGN / 01-to-be
The mesh being built toward. Every statement here traces to a record in
[`02-DECISIONS/`](../../02-DECISIONS/); nothing arrives by drafting.
A document here describes an intention. What currently runs is in
[`00-as-is/`](../00-as-is/), and the two are never merged — when something ships, the as-is
document is written and this one's status becomes `implemented`.
| Document | Covers | Rests on |
|---|---|---|
| [`00-work-breakdown.md`](00-work-breakdown.md) | How the decomposition gets built, in what order, and where a human must look | [ADR 0001](../../02-DECISIONS/0001-mesh-brokers-nodes-host-agents-think.md) |
| [`01-end-to-end-testing.md`](01-end-to-end-testing.md) | The lab: a real mesh a change can be run against before it reaches nodes | [ADR 0016](../../02-DECISIONS/0016-the-lab.md), [0029](../../02-DECISIONS/0016-the-lab.md) |
| [`02-scenario-declaration.md`](02-scenario-declaration.md) | What a scenario declares — the underlay, and what to place on it | [ADR 0016](../../02-DECISIONS/0016-the-lab.md) |
| [`03-scenario-lifecycle.md`](03-scenario-lifecycle.md) | What happens to a scenario — raise, snapshot, restore, move, destroy | [ADR 0016](../../02-DECISIONS/0016-the-lab.md) |
| [`04-lab-installation.md`](04-lab-installation.md) | Getting the lab onto a clean machine, and why it verifies capability rather than installation | [ADR 0010](../../02-DECISIONS/0010-delivery.md) |
| [`05-the-node-host.md`](05-the-node-host.md) | Tier 0 — the one thing installed by hand, and the only thing that changes a machine | [ADR 0005](../../02-DECISIONS/0005-the-node-host.md) |
| [`06-the-control-plane.md`](06-the-control-plane.md) | Tier 2 — what the term means, and the test for what belongs in it | [ADR 0005](../../02-DECISIONS/0005-the-node-host.md) |
| [`07-the-substrate.md`](07-the-substrate.md) | Tier 1 — what the control plane consumes and cannot grant itself | [ADR 0004](../../02-DECISIONS/0004-a-node-and-how-it-joins.md), [0048](../../02-DECISIONS/0006-the-substrate-and-the-control-plane.md) |
| [`08-connectivity.md`](08-connectivity.md) | One context in full — overlay, resolution, exposure, filtering, certificates | [ADR 0007](../../02-DECISIONS/0007-connectivity.md), [0050](../../02-DECISIONS/0007-connectivity.md), [0051](../../02-DECISIONS/0004-a-node-and-how-it-joins.md), [0055](../../02-DECISIONS/0006-the-substrate-and-the-control-plane.md) |
| [`09-the-node-lifecycle.md`](09-the-node-lifecycle.md) | How a machine becomes a node, stays one, and stops being one | [ADR 0004](../../02-DECISIONS/0004-a-node-and-how-it-joins.md), [0051](../../02-DECISIONS/0004-a-node-and-how-it-joins.md) |
| [`10-delivery.md`](10-delivery.md) | Modules, the three edges, and how a change becomes a running thing | [ADR 0010](../../02-DECISIONS/0010-delivery.md), [0064](../../02-DECISIONS/0009-modules-and-the-graph.md), [0065](../../02-DECISIONS/0009-modules-and-the-graph.md) |
## Not yet written
- **The remaining six contexts.**
[ADR 0006](../../02-DECISIONS/0006-the-substrate-and-the-control-plane.md)
settles the list at seven; `connectivity` is the first written in full
([`08`](08-connectivity.md)) and the other six do not exist yet. The work breakdown says in
what order they are needed.
- ~~**Domain grouping outside the core.**~~ **Not needed.**
[ADR 0009](../../02-DECISIONS/0009-modules-and-the-graph.md) is
superseded by [ADR 0009](../../02-DECISIONS/0009-modules-and-the-graph.md):
there is no domain module to group into, so there is no domain list to settle. Relationships
are edges, and grouping is a tag and a query.