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.
Brummel