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jschoubben f05e4a0dce Follow papa-hq's research convention; the mesh links nothing
Research efforts move from status.md to 00-overview.md with active /
graduated / abandoned, matching papa-hq so the two repositories read the
same way. Playbooks, skills, README and the ledger follow.

Reverses yesterday's withdrawal of the symlink note in GENESIS. The note
was right and the withdrawal was wrong: the intent is that the mesh
creates no symlinks at all, so a founding document listing "symlinks, not
copies" as a design principle does point the opposite way from where this
is going, and that is a contradiction rather than a stale detail.

ADR 0018 records the position, proposed. ADR 0011 stays as it is — it is
the historical decision and the incident behind it is why anyone believes
either record — and is superseded in intent, not edited. Its one
editorial line, which called the wider reading false, is corrected to
state what is actually true: centralising who may link narrowed the
incident class without closing it, because a link the installer makes
resolves exactly like one made by hand.

The argument that kept linking was staleness. ADR 0004 removed it: every
managed file is already derived and reconciled, so a copy is the natural
form and a pointer into source is the shape the mesh's own model forbids
everywhere else. What is not settled, and is marked open, is how
staleness gets detected — which is the decision that makes or breaks it.
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name, description
name description
hal-new-research Use when starting a new research effort in hal-hq — an idea, technology or approach worth investigating before it is committed to design. Triggers on "research X", "investigate X", "spike X", "should we use X", "is X worth doing".

hal-new-research

Scaffolds a new research effort. Authoritative playbook: 00-GENESIS/process/01-research.md — read it; this skill only does the mechanical setup.

Steps

  1. Find the next free number: list 01-RESEARCH/NNN-*, take the highest plus one, zero-padded to three digits.

  2. Create 01-RESEARCH/NNN-descriptive-name/ (kebab-case from the topic).

  3. Create 00-overview.md in it with exactly this frontmatter, then a prose summary of what is being investigated, why, and what it touches:

    ---
    status: active
    initiated: YYYY-MM-DD
    touches: []
    became: []
    ---
    
  4. Do the research in further documents in the same folder. Keep the summary current.

Do not

  • Do not restate the status in prose. It lives in frontmatter, in one place.
  • Do not fill became: while the effort is open — hal-graduate sets it at closure.
  • Do not skip or reuse a sequence number.
  • Do not write into 02-DESIGN from an open effort.
  • Do not name the mesh being observed. Evidence is required; identification is forbidden.

Closing

An effort never just stops. It closes through hal-graduate as graduated or abandoned, always with became: pointing at what it turned into. Nothing is deleted.