Actively build and sharpen a project's ubiquitous domain language, glossary, and Architectural Decision Records (ADRs). Use when establishing project terminology, updating GLOSSARY.md, or recording ADRs.
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# Domain Modeling
Actively build and sharpen the project's domain model as you design. This is the *active* discipline: challenging terms, inventing edge-case scenarios, and writing the glossary and decisions down the moment they crystallise. (Merely *reading* `GLOSSARY.md` for vocabulary is not this skill: that's a one-line habit any skill can do. This skill is for when you're changing the model, not just consuming it.)
## File structure
Most repos have a single context:
```
/
├── GLOSSARY.md
├── docs/
│ └── adr/
│ ├── 0001-event-sourced-orders.md
│ └── 0002-postgres-for-write-model.md
└── src/
```
If a `GLOSSARY-MAP.md` exists at the root, the repo has multiple contexts. The map points to where each one lives:
```
/
├── GLOSSARY-MAP.md
├── docs/
│ └── adr/ ← system-wide decisions
├── src/
│ ├── ordering/
│ │ ├── GLOSSARY.md
│ │ └── docs/adr/ ← context-specific decisions
│ └── billing/
│ ├── GLOSSARY.md
│ └── docs/adr/
```
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