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ADR 0027 — the product is Novox Mesh, shortened to mesh internally. HAL was never chosen: it arrived with the dotfiles repository this grew out of, it is borrowed, and it is borrowed from the canonical untrustworthy machine intelligence, which is an odd flag for infrastructure trusted with credentials. Timing is the substance of the decision, not an aside — the skeleton is not built, so renaming costs a search and replace now and a migration later. Nox is an identity of Novox, and specifically the agent of the MESH rather than of a node. Nodes keep their own identities. Nox addresses them, and a human mostly talks to Nox — which makes it the concrete form of the mission's vision: state an intent, and the mesh works out which node holds the thing. It holds no private channel. The gap this opens is recorded: ADR 0012 binds every agent to a home node, and a mesh-scoped agent has none, so the model needs extending. ADR 0028 — HQ is company-scoped, novox/hq, with the mesh as its first product. Checked rather than assumed: the company organisation already holds live projects that the mesh builds and deploys, so they are tenants rather than peers, and the mesh is the ground they stand on. There is also company work outside the mesh already, which strengthens the case and means the eventual split is closer than "some day" — so each document's scope is fixed now, in a table, making that split mechanical instead of archaeological. The folders are deliberately not restructured yet. The skeleton takes the new vocabulary: mesh-host, mesh-substrate, mesh-control, mesh-surfaces, mesh-catalog. Substrate drops to four services now that identity is a hosted workload rather than a dependency. Research 009 opens the migration, with the reframing that lowers its risk: replace the control plane, do not move the workloads. Their data never moves, so it is re-declared rather than adopted — which keeps adoption out of scope, as the lab design requires. Self-hosting is the last phase, or a failed cutover takes away the means to fix it.
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name: hal-new-research
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description: Use when starting a new research effort in HQ — an idea, technology or approach worth investigating before it is committed to design. Triggers on "research X", "investigate X", "spike X", "should we use X", "is X worth doing".
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---
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# hal-new-research
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Scaffolds a new research effort. **Authoritative playbook:**
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[`00-META/process/01-research.md`](../../../00-META/process/01-research.md) — read it;
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this skill only does the mechanical setup.
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## Steps
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1. Find the next free number: list `01-RESEARCH/NNN-*`, take the highest plus one, zero-padded
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to three digits.
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2. Create `01-RESEARCH/NNN-descriptive-name/` (kebab-case from the topic).
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3. Create `00-overview.md` in it with exactly this frontmatter, then a prose summary of **what** is
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being investigated, **why**, and **what it touches**:
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```yaml
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---
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status: active
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initiated: YYYY-MM-DD
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touches: []
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became: []
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---
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```
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4. Do the research in further documents in the same folder. Keep the summary current.
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## Do not
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- Do not restate the status in prose. It lives in frontmatter, in one place.
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- Do not fill `became:` while the effort is open — `hal-graduate` sets it at closure.
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- Do not skip or reuse a sequence number.
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- Do not write into `03-DESIGN` from an open effort.
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- Do not name the mesh being observed. Evidence is required; identification is forbidden.
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## Closing
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An effort never just stops. It closes through `hal-graduate` as `graduated` or `abandoned`,
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always with `became:` pointing at what it turned into. Nothing is deleted.
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