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Asked whether postgres has to be installed, and the answer exposed a missing step. The store is a container, so something must run containers before anything else happens — and a container runtime is a PACKAGE, not a container. Step 0 is where several threads meet. It is what the host's capability detection already reports, and the first use of that report by something other than a person. It is adopted rather than installed when the machine already has a runtime with configuration somebody chose. And it is a package, needing the machine's own package manager and a network, both of which ADR 0046 permits. So the host's bootstrap vocabulary is six shapes: package, container, file, directory, service, action. Stage 2 built three of them. The node host design now names which three remain and why the lab cannot yet exercise them — a sealed scenario fetches nothing and its machines carry no container runtime, which is lab-installation work rather than a constraint on the design, because production machines have a network.
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 record in 02-DECISIONS/. |
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: [] # 02-DECISIONS/ records this document rests on
---
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 02-DECISIONS/
and the research that produced it is closed.
Subfolders are encouraged where a layer grows enough to need them.