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jschoubben c0b35652d0 The numbering is the flow: decisions are 02, design is 03
papa-hq reads 01 research -> 03 decision -> 02 design. The order is a
scar, not a choice: 02-DESIGN existed from its initial commit, and when
adr/ was finally promoted on 2026-07-13 it took the next free number
rather than its place in the sequence. By then design was too settled to
renumber.

hal-hq was three commits old, so it is not. adr/ becomes 02-DECISIONS and
02-DESIGN becomes 03-DESIGN, and following the folder numbers now walks
the process in the order it happens: research produces a decision, the
decision authorises a design.

00-GENESIS becomes 00-META, matching papa's rename from the same
restructure.

Every path reference rewritten across documents, frontmatter, playbooks
and skills. All links resolve; all 58 frontmatter blocks parse and their
path fields still point at files that exist.
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---
status: open
opened: 2026-08-22
located-in: [hal]
fixed-by:
amended-design:
---
# 005 — The end-to-end pipeline harness has not built since the workspace was removed
## Symptom
The repository's end-to-end pipeline test harness depends on a workspace that no longer
exists. It has not been buildable since 2026-06-04. Nothing runs it, and nothing reports that
nothing runs it.
## Why this matters
The delivery pipeline is the mesh's most consequential machinery — every module reaches every
node through it — and its only end-to-end coverage has been silently dead for over two and a
half months.
That interval is not incidental. Several of the pipeline's most expensive defects landed
inside it: packaging that was never actually split from build, migrations and provisioning
scripts reading a source layout that no longer ships, selection files never packaged at all.
Whether this harness would have caught any of them is unknown — which is itself the point. The
coverage was assumed, not checked.
## Evidence
- The workspace was removed by pull request #240 on 2026-06-04
([ADR 0007](../../02-DECISIONS/0007-no-npm-workspace.md)).
- The harness has not built since that date.
- Recorded in the knowledge base as a standing entry, not as a fixed incident.
## Relationship to the lab
[`03-DESIGN/01-to-be/01-end-to-end-testing.md`](../../03-DESIGN/01-to-be/01-end-to-end-testing.md)
designs end-to-end testing on a lab mesh, which would replace this harness rather than repair
it. That is a reason to decide its fate deliberately, not a reason to leave it broken and
unmentioned: until the lab exists, this is the coverage the pipeline is presumed to have.
## Open questions
- Repair, or retire in favour of the lab? Leaving it in the repository unbuilt is the one
option that keeps the false impression of coverage.
- Was anything relying on it, or had it already stopped running before the workspace removal?