The per-iter journal under docs/journals/ duplicated the iter commit
body's substance and accumulated as Verlauf-Doku with no Future-Use.
Sweep across all live control documents: CLAUDE.md, the 7 SKILL.md
files, the 11 agent files, design/INDEX.md and the contracts/models
that referenced journals, docs/roadmap.md, and the handful of source
comments + tests that pointed at journal files for rationale.
Mechanism changes:
- Standing-reading-lists in every agent now read `git log -N --format=full`
for recent project state, never per-iter journal files. The architect
reads `git log <prev-milestone-close>..HEAD --format=full` for audit
scope.
- implement-orchestrator no longer writes a journal file. DONE outcomes
emit just code + stats; the end-report is the per-task summary the
Boss uses to write the commit body. PARTIAL/BLOCKED outcomes emit
BLOCKED.md at the repo root — uncommitted by convention, Boss removes
on repair or discard. New iron-law line + four-rationalisation row
+ red-flag bullet codify it.
- audit ratify mechanic: --update-baseline is now paired with an explicit
ratify paragraph in the audit-close commit body, not a separate
JOURNAL ratify entry.
- design/contracts/honesty-rule.md: "history and rationale lives in
docs/journals/" → "lives in git log (iter and audit commit bodies)".
Pinned phrase preserved verbatim.
- CLAUDE.md "Roles of …" section reframed: design/, git log,
journal-archive.md (content-frozen), roadmap.md, specs/, plans/.
No docs/journals/ slot anymore.
- roadmap.md context-lines that pointed at per-iter journals are
dropped where the spec/commit already carries the rationale, or
rephrased to "shipped in the <iter> iter commit" / "docs/journal-
archive.md (<date> entry)" for pre-2026-05-11 references.
What stays (this commit):
- docs/journals/ directory and contents are NOT touched. Removing the
contents is a separate follow-up.
- docs/journals/2026-05-19-design-decision-records.md still has live
readers (docs_honesty_pin.rs Z 108 + parse.rs + duplicate_ctor_pin.rs
+ 3 roadmap mentions) — also follow-up.
- docs/journal-archive.md still exists; its self-pointer header has
been updated to drop the "see docs/journals/INDEX.md" mention.
Workspace builds, full test suite green.
The 3020-line docs/DESIGN.md is replaced by the design/ ledger:
design/INDEX.md (sole addressable spine, typed Contracts+Models tables,
polymorphic links — prose file OR authoritative source //!), 14
design/contracts/*.md test-linked invariants + 3 source-link-only
contracts (mangling/env-construction/qualified-xref, no prose file —
code is SoT), 5 design/models/*.md whitepapers, and
docs/journals/2026-05-19-design-decision-records.md (the
relitigation-guard archive — every why/rejected/does-not-do/rollback/
empirical ### moved out at ###-granularity). Clean cut: git rm
docs/DESIGN.md, no stub.
RED-first crates/ailang-core/tests/design_index_pin.rs — the 4-clause
anti-regrowth spine (DESIGN.md-gone / every-INDEX-link-resolves /
every-contract-names-a-resolvable-ratifier /
contracts-carry-no-decision-record-prose) — demonstrably RED before,
GREEN after. Build-atomic by task ordering: design_schema_drift.rs's
include_str! (the only compile-time consumer) retargeted to
design/contracts/data-model.md BEFORE the deletion; its
## Data model/## Pipeline slicer dropped (a simplification the split
enables). 2 NoInstance diagnostics + 2 lockstep E2Es retargeted to
design/contracts/{float-semantics,typeclasses}.md. ~12 agent reading
lists + 5 SKILL bodies + CLAUDE.md + skills/README.md + ~25
code/C/.ail/spec comment xrefs retargeted; OQ7 dangling 'Iter 13b'
cite deleted (no forward target — a pointer would be fiction).
honesty-rule.md rewritten so the rule names the new home
(rationale->journals), resolving the recon-found internal
contradiction; the two docs_honesty_pin.rs:70,72 pinned phrases kept
verbatim+contiguous.
Boss-verified independently: cargo test --workspace 646 passed /
0 failed; design_index_pin 4/4; acceptance grep CLEAN of live
DESIGN.md refs (residuals = only the spec-mandated clause-4
deletion-enforcer). 2 DONE_WITH_CONCERNS routed to the mandatory
milestone-close audit: (a) str-abi.md:23 '(iter str-concat,
2026-05-13)' provenance stamp trips advisory architect_sweeps Sweep-1
— Boss-confirmed byte-identical to DESIGN.md@deeffb1:2062-2065, a
faithfully-migrated PRE-EXISTING anchor (regexes verbatim, only path
retargeted), NOT split-introduced — RATIFY-or-tidy at audit; (b) a
now stale-direction intra-prose 'see Str ABI below' cross-ref in
float-semantics.md — audit-adjudication candidate. Plan defect noted:
Task 9 Step 4's verbatim acceptance grep used a ^./ anchor not
matching the system's grep -rIn output; substance re-verified CLEAN.
Spec grounding-check PASS x2. Journals INDEX + decision-records
pointer appended (Boss-only).
Brummel