AGENTS.md@design git:20260927.1b992a3A

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# `design/`

**Responsibility under the Northstar** (root `AGENTS.md`). Historical records of design decisions: why a structure around the protocols was chosen and which alternatives were set aside. They explain how the current shape came about; they do not govern it.

**Boundary.** Nothing at runtime reads these files, and a protocol's contract is whatever its `SKILL.md` says now, even where a record here describes an earlier shape. New rationale goes in the commit message that lands the change (root `AGENTS.md` §Settled Directions, Ledger binding) rather than in a new file here.

**Next.** `README.md` here for what each record covers; for the contract as it stands, the protocol's `SKILL.md`.