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Decisions were the one link the cycle checks skipped, and measuring found 19 of 70 records orphaned — the credential flow and the module-runtime cluster among them, which is how a stale premise about a settled decision survived in working memory. cycle.py now refuses an accepted record nothing cites; the 19 got true homes (design frontmatter, the playbook that implements 0021, META for the process records). The overview names the practice: spec-driven development with provenance. https://claude.ai/code/session_01D6qtiYU3P9jk3pnAXyAFyx
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Playbook 05 — Constitution sync
Implements ADR 0021: HQ is the source of the constitution, and the knowledge-base page is derived, never edited.
Trigger. how-we-build.md changed a rule that the mesh enforces at
runtime.
Who runs it. Whoever made the change.
Why this playbook exists
The mesh injects a constitution into every eligible design meeting; agents check their output
against it and a constitution-check phase can block a meeting. That text is derived.
how-we-build.md is the source.
Two texts stating the same rules will drift, and the enforced copy winning by default means the reasoned copy quietly stops being true. This playbook is the mechanism that stops that — and, per the repository's own rule, it is how the rule "HQ is the source" is checked.
Steps
- Edit
how-we-build.md. Each rule keeps the reasoning that earned it; the derived page carries the rule alone. - Record the change as a decision — a rule the mesh enforces is architecturally significant. Playbook 02.
- Publish the derived page to the knowledge base under the constitution slug, replacing its body. Keep the section numbering stable: the meeting orchestrator and the review fragments cite sections by number.
- Verify the derived page reads back with the change present. A publish that reported success and did nothing is exactly the failure class this repository exists to name.
- Note the sync in the decision record's Consequences.
Rules
- Never edit the derived page directly. An edit there survives until the next sync and then vanishes, taking its reasoning with it.
- The derived page may only be tightened by per-team override pages, never relaxed.
- If the sync cannot be performed, say so in the record. An unsynced rule is a rule the
mesh does not enforce, whatever
how-we-build.mdsays.