Record

REC-DIR

Status

in force

Built

built

Decided

2026-10-04 by the user

Useful work lives in the repository

“remember to keep things in this repo, anything that is useful shouldn’t sit in your temp” (user, 2026-10-04). Useful plans, findings, verification reports, evidence and continuation notes are versioned repository records in their existing owners — docs/design/, docs/findings/, docs/trackers/, docs/decisions/ — never private coordinator state. Private scratch is staging only: it is never the sole home of a useful record, and a record that exists only outside the repository does not exist. A user instruction given in conversation is such a record: it lands in this directory as a decision, or as a bounded edit to the decision that already states it — never only in a brief, a tracker line or a chat log — and other documents cite its id instead of restating it.

The interrupted recovery executed this rule through RECOVERY-DURABLE-RECORDS: the sealed retention plan and its bound selection are imported byte-exact as routing inputs, and its small records (plans, specs, reviews) are versioned under docs/findings/recovery/ and docs/design/recovery/. As AMENDED on 2026-10-07:

• Raw evidence is kept by content outside git (EVD-STORE): the recovery’s raw evidence folder docs/findings/recovery/evidence/ is held in the evidence store, and the repository commits its generated manifest, so every cited path stays verifiable byte for byte. “Exact bytes” is the manifest’s sha256, not a committed copy.
• A record another branch of this repository holds is referenced, not copied (UR-16).
• The coordination owner is the coordination branch (UR-22). The 2026-10-04 cutover moved the consolidated coordinator state into docs/trackers/TASKS.md (after an independent CLEAR-TO-ACTIVATE check); that block is now history, superseded by the coordination branch, and both immutable coordinator records are in the evidence store under docs/findings/recovery/evidence/coordinator/.

Bounds this rule carries from its neighbors: credentials never become records (D-09); disposable runtime temp roots stay outside the safety floor (D-19); one owner per semantic fact, with this directory the one home of rules and decisions (UR-01); retained tooling lands with its committed artifact (D-20). Importing a record grants no workload, spend or admission; historical evidence is never a supported runtime owner.