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jschoubben 702efca6bb Base layer: the mesh as it is, under the mesh as it should be

HQ held only the to-be. Every reader had to already know the system the
decisions were about, and an as-is claim had nowhere to live except inside
an intention.

Adds 02-DESIGN/00-as-is — eleven documents written from the implementation
and the operational record, not from intent, including the parts nobody
would choose again. The two existing designs move under 01-to-be. Layers
are declared in frontmatter and never mix: a design that ships does not
move, its as-is counterpart is written, and both stand.

Back-fills adr/0001-0014 for decisions taken in implementation and never
recorded — the broker, the module abstraction, the mesh database, managed
files, provisioning, migrations, the workspace removal, failing loudly,
the constitution, application placement, linking, the employee model, the
artifact, the three silos. Each marked reconstructed, dated from the
history, and citing the evidence it was recovered from. The two existing
records renumber to 0015 and 0016 so the ledger runs oldest first;
0017 extends 0015 to modules outside the core, principle only — the
domain list is deliberately not invented here.

how-we-build.md becomes the source of the mesh constitution, with a sync
playbook, so the enforced copy stops being the only one that is true.

Process becomes explicit: five playbooks, eight thin skills that defer to
them, a repository map, and AGENTS.md with CLAUDE.md as its include.

The five Observations become 04-ISSUES 001-005 where they can be owned and
closed. 006 is new and uncomfortable: HQ is not indexed into the knowledge
base. That claim is what decision 27 rests on, it was never checked, and
the README now says so instead of repeating it.

Also corrects the ADR index into something generated, the "02-DESIGN is
empty" claim, the VISION.md pointer that did not survive the repo split,
and a note asserting the symlink rule was contradicted — it was a
misreading; the rule forbids hand-made links, the installer links by design.

2026-08-23 03:08:26 +02:00

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hal-graduate	Use when a hal-hq research effort concludes and becomes design, or when a design must change. Triggers on "graduate this research", "this is decided", "write the ADR", "close the effort", "the design changed".

hal-graduate

Closes a research effort into a decision and a design, or amends an existing design. Authoritative playbook: 00-GENESIS/process/02-graduation.md — read it; this skill adds only the scaffolding.

Steps

Check against GENESIS — mission.md, context.md, effect.md. If the conclusion conflicts, say which is wrong, in writing, before proceeding.
Write the decision record in adr/, next free number, frontmatter per adr/README.md. reconstructed: false — this one is being taken, not recovered. Record the rejected options.
Write the design under 02-DESIGN/01-to-be/ with layer: to-be, status: designed, empty code:, today's updated:, and decisions: pointing at the record.
Close the effort — the research status.md gets status: graduated and became: pointing at both.
Add the ledger line to DECISIONS.md under today's heading.

Amending an existing design

A design changes only through a decision. Write the record first; if it reverses an earlier one, set that record's status: superseded and superseded-by: — never edit its text. Then edit the design and set updated:.

When something ships

Write or update the matching 02-DESIGN/00-as-is/ document so it describes what now runs, including anything that shipped differently from the intent. Set the to-be document's status: implemented and its code:. The to-be document does not move — both stand.

status: implemented must be defensible from the owning repository's main branch. If it cannot be checked, it is in-progress.

Do not

Do not move a to-be document into 00-as-is/.
Do not edit an as-is document to describe an intention.
Do not change a decision record's meaning. Supersede it.

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