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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    3 held        the SUPERSEDED TASKS.md stamps, which cite the moving path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   current|draft|deprecated|historical; the new contract's is active|superseded-by.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

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---
kind: guide
status: active
---
# 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/`](../USER-GUIDE/); operator procedures belong in [`ADMIN-GUIDE/`](../ADMIN-GUIDE/); API contracts belong in [`API/`](../API/).
## Start here
- [Documentation atlas](../README.md) — placement rules and source-of-truth boundaries.
- [Architecture index](architecture/README.md) — current architecture chapter scaffold.
- [Documentation audit](../reports/documentation/2026-08-10-docs-catalog-audit.md) — evidence-based migration inventory.
- [Product requirements](../PRD.md) — normative requirements, currently marked draft.
## Chapter map
| Chapter | Scope | Status |
| ----------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| [`architecture/`](architecture/README.md) | 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
- [Lease-broker operations and verification](testing/lease-broker-operations.md) — safe static/test commands plus explicitly held live operations.
- [Channel adapters](integrations/channel-adapters.md) — current shared contracts and Discord reference boundary; future adapter parity is draft.
Every promoted page must be added to this index and to [`SITEMAP.md`](../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`](../archive/tui/PRD-TUI_Improvements.md) — contradicted/stale; it references a missing `packages/cli`, while current TUI code is under `packages/mosaic`.
- [`archived TUI task ledger`](../archive/tui/TASKS-TUI_Improvements.md) — 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](../reports/documentation/2026-08-10-docs-catalog-audit.md) 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.
## Related
- [[README|Documentation contract]]
- [[DEVELOPER-GUIDE/architecture/README|Architecture index]]
- [[API/README|API index]]