fred withdrew decision F after re-measuring channel-protocol.md with a control:
zero uppercase RFC2119 terms, seven lowercase 'must' all disclaiming authority,
under a banner refusing requirements status. F rested on 'the doc graph outranks
the page's own banner', which contradicts decision D, 'kind follows content'.
D is the rule; F was its counterexample. Neither rescue (vision's adjective edit
on the citing docs, or a banner edit) was taken: a kind that survives only by
editing the evidence around it is not a classification.
Q1 answered: docs/README.md prescribes the contract, so by D its content is a
spec, and by B it is the source of truth for that contract. A plan never
outranks the artifact it planned, so the flatten plan's stale 7-value enum is
corrected there rather than competing here.
128 live docs = 108 stamped + 16 operator-held + 3 supersede deferrals + 1 generated.
A - docs/README.md:149-190 rewritten. It prescribed a competing front-matter schema
(title/type/audience/status/source_of_truth) adopted by 4 of 128 live documents. Two
documented conventions in one repo is the defect this pass removes, so the README now
documents the contract and the 4 files convert in the same commit: `type` dropped
(kind replaces it), `title`/`audience`/`source_of_truth` kept.
B - source-of-truth leaves the kind enum, which is now 6 values, and returns as an orthogonal
boolean. kind was carrying two independent facts. docs/requirements/native-kanban-sot.md
is stamped `kind: spec` + `source_of_truth: true`, which is what it always was.
C - status gains `completed`. Applied to the two executed plans, on artifact evidence rather
than on their own say-so: --purpose push|merge ships in ci-queue-wait.sh, and every section
the README plan specifies exists in docs/README.md today.
D - kind follows content, never filename. docs/native-kanban-sot/TASKS.md is `kind: spec`
because its body says "a build plan, not a task tracker". The name stays wrong; that is a
rename and it is out of scope here.
E - the contract covers .md only, written into the README as a decision with vision's
YAML.parse measurement as the reason, so the omission does not read as an oversight.
F - channel-protocol.md guide -> spec. Applied, with a correction the reviewer should see: the
ruling cites "7 normative MUSTs" and there are ZERO uppercase RFC2119 terms in that file.
Control: the identical grep returns 25 lines in docs/requirements/native-kanban-sot.md. The
citation half of the finding does hold and is larger than stated. Consequence recorded in
the worklist: the file's own banner now contradicts its header.
Verified: 128 live .md under docs/ (127 baseline + this PR's worklist), 107 stamped, 0 invalid
kinds, 17 operator-held + 3 supersede-stamp deferrals + 1 generated = 21 unstamped. 107+21=128.
Control: the verifier reports valid=False when a kind is corrupted to `nonsense`, so the
0-invalid result is a real result. prettier --check clean across docs/.
Applies the document contract from
docs/plans/2026-08-20_stack-docs-flatten-and-alignment.md section 3, partially:
`kind` and `status` only. `parent` is deliberately held until the flatten in
section 4 lands, so that 127 documents do not have to be re-pointed by hand
when docs/fleet/NORTH_STAR.yaml moves to docs/NORTH_STAR.yaml.
Scope, measured on origin/next at 63069149:
127 live docs = all *.md under docs/ minus docs/archive/ minus docs/_old_structure/
104 stamped here
19 held operator judgement (plan section 9), worklist in the same PR
3 held the SUPERSEDED TASKS.md stamps, which cite the moving path
1 untouched docs/fleet/FLEET-DOCTRINE.md, already stamped in W1
Kinds applied: 54 guide, 34 record, 9 spec, 6 tracking, 1 projection.
Every row carries a confidence and a one-line rationale in the worklist.
Two collisions with the existing state, both flagged rather than resolved:
1. docs/README.md:150-160 already documents a front-matter convention
(title/type/audience/status/source_of_truth) with its own allowed values.
It is applied to 4 of 127 files. Its `status` vocabulary is
current|draft|deprecated|historical; the new contract's is active|superseded-by.
The key collides. This commit lets the new contract win and rewrites
`status: current` to `status: active` on those 4 files, keeping their other
legacy keys untouched. No code reads any of them: `git grep source_of_truth`
outside docs/ returns nothing. docs/README.md still prescribes the old
convention and is an operator row, so it is not edited here.
2. Two of the plan's 20 operator rows are YAML files, not markdown
(docs/fleet/examples/roster-v2.yaml, docs/openapi-tess.yaml), and the
contract's front-matter form has no defined meaning for a .yaml document.
That gap also applies to docs/fleet/NORTH_STAR.yaml, the source of truth
itself. Raised in the worklist.
A third row from the plan, docs/fleet/north-star.md, no longer exists: W1
renamed it to docs/fleet/FLEET-DOCTRINE.md.
Verification: 104/104 parse with the expected kind and status in front matter;
the check was shown to reject a wrong kind before it was trusted. The diff
removes 4 lines total, all of them `status: current`.
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