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veronica f0d2dd9920 docs(W4): stamp kind and status front matter on 104 live documents
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    3 held        the SUPERSEDED TASKS.md stamps, which cite the moving path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   current|draft|deprecated|historical; the new contract's is active|superseded-by.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`.
2026-08-20 19:30:25 -05:00

3.9 KiB

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Developer Guide

Status: Partially migrated. Architecture, lease-broker verification, and channel-adapter authoring pages are current; other contributor chapters remain unmigrated.

This book is the canonical home for architecture, package and application guides, local development, testing, contribution workflow, and integration authoring. User-facing procedures belong in USER-GUIDE/; operator procedures belong in ADMIN-GUIDE/; API contracts belong in API/.

Start here

Chapter map

Chapter Scope Status
architecture/ System model, components, data flow, security model, ADRs, and RFCs. Partially migrated.
packages/ Package- and application-level contracts and guides. Scaffold only.
local-development/ Safe local setup and development routes. Scaffold only.
testing/ Test strategy, verification, and quality gates. Lease-broker verification boundary is current.
contributing/ Contribution, review, and delivery workflow. Scaffold only.
integrations/ Plugin, provider, and adapter authoring. Channel-adapter authoring boundary is current.

Current contributor pages

Every promoted page must be added to this index and to SITEMAP.md in the same migration slice.

Migration backlog — not current developer guidance

These are source candidates or stale records, not verified current instructions:

  • archived TUI PRD — contradicted/stale; it references a missing packages/cli, while current TUI code is under packages/mosaic.
  • archived TUI task ledger — historical task ledger; its status and worktree claims require revalidation.
  • _old_structure/guides/dev-guide.md — quarantined historical source; verify paths and commands before promotion. See the documentation catalog for its disposition.

Do not make a legacy or archived page current by linking it from a chapter as if it were already promoted.

Authoring boundary

New developer documentation belongs under one of the chapter directories above. Architecture decisions and RFCs must identify their status and authority; executable behavior must be checked against current code and tests.