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Twenty-seven ADRs existed before a line of Go. Five specified the shape of unbuilt mechanisms — cache validity, declared types, the settings cascade, taxonomies, extras — which breaks the rule against abstraction before a second concrete use, in prose where the counters cannot see it. They move to ideas/deferred-decisions.md as recorded intent and return shaped by whatever implements them. Citations retargeted throughout; where one was decoration the rule now stands on its own reasoning. Type declarations and the cascade drop to [spec] with the MVP behaviour stated instead, so the first prompts have less to build. conventions.md names http.ServeMux as the router, closing a hole that invited hand-rolling a path splitter. The ADR gate now checks a number is registered in the log rather than headed by an entry, so withdrawals resolve and invented numbers still fail. Two architecture invariants corrected: identity no longer implies a required language suffix, and the duplicated permalink clause is gone.
Ideas — parked, not dropped
One file per idea, self-contained enough to resume cold. Nothing here is committed to; presence is not permission to build. An idea file exists so picking the thread back up costs one read instead of one re-derivation — the whole justification for writing it while the context is still in hand.
What goes where
| It is… | Where |
|---|---|
| an engine feature you might build (webmentions, gemtext, galleries) | docs/exploration.md catalog line, /leaf for a verdict |
| that same feature, but with a discussion worth not repeating | an idea file here, linked from the catalog line |
| the harness, agent workflow, token cost, tooling, process | here — exploration.md is engine-only |
| a decision already made | docs/decisions.md |
| a known code flaw deliberately unfixed | Latent list in docs/state.md |
| a durable fact, number, or link | reference/ |
Format
Five headings, present tense, terse. Copy an existing file. Required first lines:
# <title>
Status: parked | active | adopted → <where> | dropped: <one-line why>
Raised: YYYY-MM-DD
Keep dropped files — a one-line reason is the cheapest defence against relitigating it in four
months.
Reading discipline
Exploratory scratch code may live here too; verify.sh never formats, vets, builds or budgets it, so
it does not have to compile.
Out of agent context by default, this index included. A file is opened when the human names that
idea, not otherwise: not swept, not listed to see what is here, not cited unasked. This index is for
you, not the agent; verify.sh keeps it honest without reading it into context.
Index
- deferred-decisions.md — five pre-code ADRs demoted to intent; each returns when something implements it. parked
- specs-as-secondary-artifacts.md — optional per-feature specs, derived by default, plus the named-test convention. parked
- engine-design-review.md — open design decisions for a multi-type site; items graduate to ADRs one at a time. parked
- token-conservation.md — cut agent token cost without losing output quality. parked