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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.
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name: hal-status
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description: Use when you need a cross-cutting view of where hal-hq stands — research state, design implementation state, open issues, or the decision-record index. Triggers on "what's the status", "show the ADR index", "where do things stand", "what's in progress", "what's open".
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---
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# hal-status
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Generates a cross-cutting view **from frontmatter**. This is a read-and-render skill, not a
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workflow — hal-hq has **no central status file by design** (decision 35). Every view is
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generated on demand and never written back to disk.
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## What to read
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| Section | Files | Frontmatter |
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|---|---|---|
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| Research | `01-RESEARCH/NNN-*/status.md` | `status` (`ongoing` / `graduated` / `abandoned`), `initiated`, `touches`, `became` |
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| Design | `02-DESIGN/**/*.md` (not READMEs) | `layer` (`as-is` / `to-be`), `status` (`designed` / `in-progress` / `implemented` / `abandoned`), `code`, `updated`, `decisions` |
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| Decisions | `adr/NNNN-*.md` | `status` (`proposed` / `accepted` / `superseded`), `date`, `deciders`, `reconstructed`, `superseded-by`, `extends` |
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| Issues | `04-ISSUES/NNN-*/00-report.md` | `status` (`open` / `diagnosing` / `located` / `resolved` / `wontfix`), `opened`, `located-in`, `fixed-by`, `amended-design` |
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## Steps
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1. Read the frontmatter block from every file above — a grep across each tree is enough, no
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need to load bodies.
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2. Render what was asked as Markdown tables. Group and sort sensibly. The **ADR index** is one
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of these views: records ordered by number, with title, date and status, and reconstructed
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ones marked.
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3. Flag anything inconsistent at the end, as flags — do not silently correct the render:
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- a `graduated` or `abandoned` effort with an empty `became:`
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- an `implemented` design with an empty `code:`
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- a `superseded` record with no `superseded-by:`
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- an `open` or `diagnosing` issue with no activity
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- a to-be design whose `decisions:` points at a record that does not exist
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- an as-is design whose claims are older than its `updated:` date suggests
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## Do not
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- **Do not write a status file.** Central status files are explicitly rejected. The view is
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always generated, always ephemeral. This includes the ADR index — the hand-written one had
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already drifted after a single addition, which is why it was removed.
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- Do not infer status from prose. Trust only the frontmatter; if it is wrong, flag it.
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