git:20260819.50f4e78 to git:20260819.779c9ea

6 added, 2 removed. Audit A to A.

# ADR contributor procedure

[ADR 0085](0085-acceptance-not-implementation-authorizes-an-adr.md) defines

when an ADR authorizes implementation. [ADR 0045](0045-the-status-line-is-the-mutable-part-of-an-immutable-adr.md)

defines how Accepted ADR history is preserved.

The ADR requirement applies only to product and platform architecture decisions

that establish or materially change durable system boundaries. CI configuration,

build plumbing, and similar delivery mechanics are outside this requirement

unless they also make such an architectural decision.

## Status vocabulary

1. `Draft` is open for discussion and revision. It may merge, but it does not

authorize implementation.

2. `Accepted` means the decision is published with an Accepted status and has

explicit maintainer approval. Only this status authorizes implementation.

3. `Superseded` is the terminal historical status for an Accepted decision that

a later ADR replaces in whole.

## Procedure

1. Create the ADR as `Draft` with the next unused four digit number. Record the

context, decision, consequences, and rejected alternatives.

2. Merge a Draft when publishing it for discussion is useful. Do not begin

implementation from a merged Draft.

3. Obtain explicit maintainer approval, then publish the status as `Accepted`.

Existing code and implementation evidence cannot retroactively accept a

Draft.

- 4. Begin implementation only after acceptance. Track the work in a linked

- GitHub issue and pull request.

+ 4. Acceptance is the authority for implementation. Normally, publish the ADR as

+ `Accepted` before beginning implementation. As the coordinated exception, an

+ ADR may land `Accepted` alongside implementation only with recorded explicit

+ maintainer approval and a named realizing code path. Without both, acceptance

+ must precede implementation. Track the work in a linked GitHub issue and pull

+ request.

5. Revise a Draft through review. Once Accepted, preserve its body. Apply only

the status, back link, pointer repair, and supersession rules in ADR 0045.

6. Run `bash scripts/check-docs.sh` after any ADR change. Commit the regenerated

`docs/adr/README.md`; never edit that index by hand.