06 — Gaps, open questions and honest tensions
1. Build-fresh items
| # | Item | Why |
|---|---|---|
| G1 | The backups doctrine | The only NFR on the corpus's own list with no material — in the estate with irreversible publishing and a keys-vault design. Write it or publish the stub |
| G2 | "How a brief becomes work here" | The estate's PM system exists in ~4,000 documents and is described nowhere. The most original PM page available, and onboarding for every agent session |
| G3 | The resilience doctrine | Every mechanism traces to a named incident; the pattern ("design for the failure you had") is unwritten |
| G4 | The reality-doc freshness check | The best documentation rule in the estate, enforced manually, already failed twice. A CI check like the licence audit |
| G5 | The scorecard generator | 00__ §4's table, regenerated per release, cells linked to evidence |
| G6 | The memory-thesis page for sgit.ai | The network's purpose statement, currently living in a chat message |
2. Open questions
| # | Question | Where it stands |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 | Is a hub site worth its drift risk? Fourteen spokes, all moving | The mitigations are the link-never-restate rule and generated numbers. If those hold, yes; if not, the map alone (one page) is the fallback |
| Q2 | Where does "consistency" live? On the eight-NFR list, but split across coding. (conventions), this site (sources of truth), and skills. (drift) | Recommend: this site owns the requirement, the map points at the three homes |
| Q3 | Should IFD be published at all? It is the estate's competitive methodology — and the memory thesis says publish | The open-source position ("the moat is a rate, not a wall") answers yes; say so explicitly rather than assuming |
| Q4 | Do the budget disciplines survive contact with real figures? Pre-approve-the-ladder is research-grounded and untested here | Publish as discipline with the research citations; mark the estate's own use as pending |
| Q5 | Is "backups" actually the gap, or is the vault model the answer? Vault versioning + escrow may be the backup doctrine, unnamed | An hour of thinking, then either the doctrine page or the honest stub |
3. Honest tensions
- A site about NFRs, from an estate whose own scorecard is mixed. One green column would be dishonest; the mixed table is the credibility. Every lapse cited is already published in a sibling pack — this site adds no new exposure, only assembly.
- The hub teaches what the spokes measured. Its value is curation, and curation is the first thing to rot. The generate-or-date rule is load-bearing here more than anywhere.
- The memory thesis makes every site's flaws teachable. If these sites are agent memory, then a stale page is a false memory — which raises the stakes of the staleness failures the estate has already had four of. The thesis and the freshness discipline arrive together or not at all.
- "For agents to learn how we work" cuts both ways. An agent that learns the no-mocks rule also learns the 67.4%-CI-coverage reality. Teaching the practice honestly means teaching the gap between rule and practice — which is, in the end, what an NFR site is for.
4. Loose ends worth an hour each
- Decide Q5 (backups vs vault-model) before writing G1.
- Extract the eight-NFR sentence's history — did the list ever appear earlier than the villagers brief?
- Check
library/guides/development/for guides not yet surfaced in any pack (thecode-formatinganddependenciesfolders were only skimmed). - Confirm the IFD guides' current version against actual practice — they are
v1.2.xin a repo atv0.33.x, two version schemes side by side. - Count the day-indexes and debriefs for the G2 page — the PM system's scale is part of its argument.
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