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The prepare found the design behind its records and the code: Placement retired by ADR 0641 while the design still put two seats in a contracts module never made, ADR 0659 and ADR 0660 not followed, the checker and the forge bridge reading the gate's state, the delivery parts naming the forge module's tools, and four hand-wired seat-list readers. Design 47 now writes each as the design's choice under the record it follows; the hold and the merge turns are removed by the operator's word with their record still to come, and a session's recovery merge waits for one. The glossary moves Placement's words into Core and Delivery and adds the seat mesh-grants; the words test refuses Placement as a domain heading (ADR 0641 §5); design 26 takes the new contracts homes and the seat git's verbs. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfFfQ4Z9UE5jK32PmE5
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 decision record in the knowledge base (ADR 0290). |
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: [] # the decision records this document rests on, each "ADR NNNN"
---
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 the knowledge base and the research that produced it is closed.
Subfolders are encouraged where a layer grows enough to need them.