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name: ssot-bootstrap

description: Bootstrap or continue repository SSOT creation. Use when SSOT/ is missing, SSOT/.bootstrap/ exists, SSOT/STATUS.md coverage_result is bootstrap, or the user asks to create a repository SSOT. Do not use for normal code-task preflight or routine closeout in an already bootstrapped repo.

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# SSOT Bootstrap

- You are creating a repository's first authoritative SSOT, or resuming a

- bootstrap that didn't finish. Your job is not to author docs from intuition —

- it is to absorb evidence the project already commits to (code, README, ADR,

- runbook, PRD, configs) into one shape under `SSOT/`, in the detected

- `documentation_language`, until phase exit criteria hold and an independent

- reviewer signs off.

- Treat `assets/templates/` as scaffolding only. Filling a template is not

- evidence; the absorbed material is.

- Bootstrap overall `passed` and clearing bootstrap state require independent

- `$ssot-doctor` review. Do not widen that exception: every other waterline uses

- the reviewer policy owned by

- [`status-protocol.md` §6](../ssot-preflight/references/status-protocol.md#6-stop-review-gate).

- ## Load on demand

- | When the task hits | Read |

- |---|---|

- | Bootstrap phases, evidence requirements, exit criteria | `references/bootstrap.md` |

- | README / docs / ADR / PRD classification, absorption rules | `../ssot-preflight/references/source-material.md` |

- | Architecture root / views / decomposition / coverage depth | `../ssot-preflight/references/architecture.md` |

- | Product/architecture explanatory depth, default surfaces, manifest archetypes, cold-reader rubric | `../ssot-preflight/references/reader-quality.md` |

- | Convergence and stop-review checks | `../ssot-doctor/references/doctor.md` |

+ Build SSOT only from observed repository evidence; a filled template is not

+ proof. Follow [`bootstrap.md`](references/bootstrap.md) until every phase exit

+ holds. Load source-material rules for supplied documents and

+ [`reader-quality.md`](../ssot-preflight/references/reader-quality.md) for every

+ reader-facing body. Stop only after the required independent Doctor review

+ passes; never infer bootstrap completion from structure or lint alone.