jschoubben
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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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name: hal-graduate
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description: Use when a hal-hq research effort concludes and becomes design, or when a design must change. Triggers on "graduate this research", "this is decided", "write the ADR", "close the effort", "the design changed".
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---
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# hal-graduate
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Closes a research effort into a decision and a design, or amends an existing design.
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**Authoritative playbook:**
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[`00-META/process/02-graduation.md`](../../../00-META/process/02-graduation.md) — read
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it; this skill adds only the scaffolding.
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## Steps
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1. **Check against GENESIS** — `mission.md`, `context.md`, `effect.md`. If the conclusion
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conflicts, say which is wrong, in writing, before proceeding.
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2. **Write the decision record** in `02-DECISIONS/`, next free number, frontmatter per
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[`02-DECISIONS/README.md`](../../../02-DECISIONS/README.md). `reconstructed: false` — this one is being taken,
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not recovered. Record the rejected options.
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3. **Write the design** under `03-DESIGN/01-to-be/` with `layer: to-be`, `status: designed`,
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empty `code:`, today's `updated:`, and `decisions:` pointing at the record.
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4. **Close the effort** — the research `00-overview.md` gets `status: graduated` and `became:`
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pointing at both.
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5. **Add the ledger line** to `DECISIONS.md` under today's heading.
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## Amending an existing design
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A design changes only through a decision. Write the record first; if it reverses an earlier
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one, set that record's `status: superseded` and `superseded-by:` — **never edit its text**.
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Then edit the design and set `updated:`.
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## When something ships
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Write or update the matching `03-DESIGN/00-as-is/` document so it describes what now runs,
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including anything that shipped differently from the intent. Set the to-be document's
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`status: implemented` and its `code:`. **The to-be document does not move** — both stand.
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`status: implemented` must be defensible from the owning repository's main branch. If it
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cannot be checked, it is `in-progress`.
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## Do not
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- Do not move a to-be document into `00-as-is/`.
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- Do not edit an as-is document to describe an intention.
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- Do not change a decision record's meaning. Supersede it.
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