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jschoubben 93a1231e00 Retire the HAL name where it points forward
Skills take the hq- prefix: they are HQ process workflows, not mesh
workflows, and HQ is company-scoped now. hq-new-research, hq-graduate,
hq-new-issue, hq-diagnose, hq-amend-design, hq-handoff,
hq-sync-constitution, hq-status.

Forward-looking prose becomes Novox Mesh or simply the mesh — the root
README, AGENTS.md, the 00-META README, the mission's module example, and
one to-be document that addressed 'someone working on HAL'.

Three categories deliberately keep HAL, per ADR 0027:

The monorepo is still called hal on the forge. repos.md, every code: field
and every located-in: field name a repository that exists under that name,
and renaming them in prose would make them false.

The as-is layer and the research that measured it describe the system that
runs, and that system is called HAL. 124 modules, 9 daemons, a dead
containerised node — those are observations, not intentions.

Records 0001-0026 are immutable. A record says what was decided when it
was decided, and no record is edited for a name.

Also repoints ADR 0022's link at the renamed skill — a path fix, which the
immutability rule permits, not a change of meaning.
2026-08-23 21:26:09 +02:00

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hq-handoff Use when an HQ design is settled and implementation is about to start in a code repository. Triggers on "start building this", "hand this off", "ready to implement", "who owns this now".

hq-handoff

Hands a settled design to a code repository. Authoritative playbook: 00-META/process/04-build-handoff.md.

Steps

  1. Confirm it is settled. status: designed, and every claim traceable to a record in 02-DECISIONS/. An open question in the text is a reason to run hq-new-research, not to build around it.
  2. Name the owner. Set code: from 00-META/repos.md. If the repository does not exist yet, add it to repos.md in the same change.
  3. Read the as-is counterpart. What is being replaced must be written down in 03-DESIGN/00-as-is/ before it is changed. Building against an undocumented as-is is how shipped behaviour gets lost.
  4. Flip the status to in-progress, updated: today.
  5. Build in the code repository. HQ never carries implementation.
  6. On completion, run hq-graduate's "when something ships" section.

Non-negotiable

  • Every merge is a human checkpoint, without exception.
  • Never open a pull request unprompted. A permissions list saying it is allowed is not a request.
  • Work in an isolated worktree, never a shared checkout.
  • Never push to the main branch.