168 records -> docs/decisions/records/<area>/<topic>.md (163 active, 23 dirs) and docs/decisions/archive/<area>/<topic>.md (5 archived). The filename IS the key, so one-active-record-per-key becomes a filesystem property rather than a validator check, and supersession becomes a `git mv`. WHY: the monolith was a concurrency problem before an aesthetic one. A 3,900-line append target made parallel sessions collide -- PR #605 and PR #614 both hit append-vs-append conflicts during routine rebases, and hand-resolving those inside the corpus is exactly the operation the rationale-rewrite guard exists to police. HOW IT IS VERIFIED: a ~170-file diff cannot be meaningfully read, so correctness does not rest on reading it. The parser was taught BOTH formats first, so the body-diff guard parses the old form at the merge-base and the new form at head -- the migration validates itself, no bypass. The proof is a field-level equivalence harness: 168 records before and after, zero lost, zero gained, zero field mismatches, zero rationale bodies differing. Reviewers should scrutinise the harness; it is the actual evidence. What measuring caught that reading would not have: - ~500 lines sit OUTSIDE any record -- decisions.md's lifecycle schema and each topic file's preamble, mostly the only copy. Source files are kept and stripped, never deleted. They also cannot be filed per-area: topic files hold several areas and 4 of 23 areas span several files. - Archive discovery was a non-recursive glob; after the split it found ZERO archived records, surfacing as four bogus "supersedes points to unknown key" errors rather than an obvious failure. - ~32 live docs point into the corpus BY DATE, which the split dangles. Each stripped file now ends with a generated "Records formerly in this file" index, which also rescues the identical breadcrumbs in old issue comments. - decisions.md's "In this file:" list was 97 same-file anchor bullets that the split makes WRONG, not merely stale. Dropped; the generated index replaces them with links that resolve. The equivalence harness now runs against a checked-in FIXTURE, not the live corpus. The earlier version migrated the real tree, which made it a one-shot: the moment the migration landed there was nothing left to move and the tests failed for reasons unrelated to the code. A fixture keeps them testing the SCRIPT rather than the repo's current state. Keys preserved verbatim, warts included: `sched` (12) and `scheduling` (1) remain two directories for one concept. Renaming a key is not a move -- it changes identity, breaks the equivalence proof, and invalidates MemPalace's per-key drawers. Taxonomy normalisation is separate work. refs #610
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key, title, status, since, supersedes, superseded-by, rule, signals, mechanics
| key | title | status | since | supersedes | superseded-by | rule | signals | mechanics |
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| process.pr-routine-sequence | 2026-07-21 — The PR routine is a fixed sequence: validate locally, then push, then only follow-up commits (#542) | active | 2026-07-21 | none | none | Worktree off origin/main → implement → regenerate API artifacts → full local tests + cold review + live-E2E ALL before the push → push, open PR, arm the CI monitor at open → fixes after the push are follow-up commits, never amend/force-push. | PR routine · worktree off origin/main · `./scripts/update-openapi.sh` · `npm run generate:api` · cold-context review · CI monitor at PR open · no force-push on a pushed branch · derived-consent merge gate · paths: `scripts/update-openapi.sh`, `scripts/e2e-local.sh` · issues: #542 | CI watch by commit status: `/api/v1/repos/timothy/ersatztv/commits/{sha}/status`. Merge via the derived-consent gate (`pretooluse-merge-consent.sh`). |
The sequence: create a worktree off origin/main; implement; for API changes build the app project
FIRST, then ./scripts/update-openapi.sh, then npm run generate:api (order matters — the generator
reads the built app's spec). Then run the full local test pass, a cold-context adversarial review
scoped to "review only", and live-E2E for UI/write-path changes — all before the push. Fold
pre-push fixes into the branch; amend/reword is fine while nothing is pushed.
Then push, open the PR, and arm the CI monitor at open, not at the end. Once the branch is pushed,
every further fix — a post-push cross-model pass, or a CI-surfaced issue — lands as a follow-up
commit; never amend or force-push a pushed branch. On green, merge through the derived-consent gate
and write the structured close comments the applicable AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md protocol requires.