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Brummel 8e586f493f workflow: replace per-iter journal system with git log + BLOCKED.md
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.
2026-05-20 11:21:37 +02:00

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# The honesty rule this ledger holds itself to
`design/` describes what AILang **is now**: schema, semantics,
invariants, runtime contracts. It is present-tense by construction.
Two things never belong in a contract or model file:
- **Forward intent** (anything stated as planned, intended, or
expected of a future iteration rather than true today) — that
lives in `docs/roadmap.md`.
- **History and rationale** (how a prior draft read, what changed
since, why one option was chosen, why another was rejected, what
was dropped in some iteration) — that lives in `git log` (iter
and audit commit bodies). Decision-records are commit-body
content, not ledger content; this is the honesty rule it holds
itself to.
A cross-reference that does belong stays: it is a formal,
file-relative Markdown link into the durable tier (`design/` or
source), enforced by the body-link durability gate in
[`design_index_pin.rs`](../../crates/ailang-core/tests/design_index_pin.rs).
A reference that cannot be expressed as such a link is, by that
fact, the history-or-rationale prose the rule above removes.
The single legitimate exception is a present-tense reserved or
deliberately-excluded claim that is explicitly and correctly
labelled. The discriminator is not whether a sentence mentions past
or future, but whether the document asserts something exists, works, or changed that does not.
Ratified by: `crates/ailang-core/tests/docs_honesty_pin.rs`.