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Issue reports carry only opened: the tracker holds every status, so no copy can drift
The import of slice 3 (ADR 0275) was checked against every folder: no report changed since the
commit it read, and the tracker holds each report's status, owner, fix, design amendment, replay
and closing day. The keys are removed from all 361 reports, cycle.py refuses them in any report,
and the playbooks, skills and READMEs that still pointed at them name the tracker instead.
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04-ISSUES

The front door for "something is wrong" at the level of the mesh's design or governance. Diagnosis happens here, where the whole mesh is in view; the fix lands in the owning code repository.

What belongs here

Belongs here Belongs in the knowledge base
The design permits a failure to be silent How to fix one occurrence of it
A documented rule is enforced by nothing A command that works around it
A stated invariant is false in practice A node-specific quirk
The owner is unknown and finding it needs the whole mesh in view Symptom → fix, once the answer is known

The knowledge base already holds the operational record and is indexed on symptoms. This folder is not a second copy of it. An issue here is a question HQ must answer; an entry there is an incident someone must clear. An issue whose answer is a general lesson belongs in both.

Structure

NNN-short-name/
  00-report.md      the symptom as observed, with the evidence
  01-diagnosis.md   the investigation trail, dated, including what was ruled out

NNN is the number the issue tracker gave. The issue's status, owner (located-in), fix (fixed-by), design amendment and replay live in the tracker — issue-tracker.get NNN — not here (ADR 0275).

Frontmatter, on 00-report.md

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opened: YYYY-MM-DD
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The report's first heading is # NNN. The title, the title the tracker holds. A report carries no status:, located-in:, fixed-by:, amended-design:, replay: or replay-none:; cycle.py refuses them. The folders numbered 001 to 364 carried them until the import of slice 3 had taken them into the tracker; what they said then is in this repository's history at the commit the import read, which every imported issue names.

A folder here keeps the public narrative of a design or governance issue. A plain bug needs no folder: it is whole in the tracker.

Rules

  • Anyone may open an issue. No localisation is required to report one.
  • The full flow is playbook 00-META/process/03-issues.md.
  • Closed issues are never deleted — they are the mesh's symptom-to-component memory.
  • wontfix is legitimate and requires a sentence saying why.