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Define the in-file RFC contract in docs/rfc/README.md § The file format: the header block (`# RFC: <title>` plus a dateless Status enum cross-checked against the lifecycle folder), the per-lifecycle body skeleton (a Problem opener everywhere; Proposal/Alternatives considered/ Acceptance criteria/Risks in proposed/; present-tense Decision/ Consequences with proposal-era headings banned in implemented/; the frozen proposal shape in rejected/), and a mandatory Alternatives considered section with a date-fenced grandfather comment for pre-format RFCs whose alternatives are not reconstructible from the record. Enforce it with a new doc-sync gate, scripts/verify-rfc-format.ts, and normalize all 112 RFCs to it: ~15 Status-line spellings collapse to the enum, 29 Context openers become Problem, the 39 legacy-format XXX debt markers are resolved and banned from reappearing, proposal-era sections in implemented RFCs are rewritten to shipped reality (including the web/fs/subagent seam RFCs' migration plans and test checklists, closing the doc-tiers deferred-work item on the web seam), every RFC gains an Alternatives considered section or the grandfather comment, and the bilingual pair is re-mirrored and re-recorded. Move the generated index tables out of README.md into a fully generated docs/rfc/INDEX.md — gen-rfc-index now writes the whole file, and verify-rfc-classification checks its freshness and rejects index-shaped rows in the curated README — which makes room for the format contract to live in the README front door instead of a separate FORMAT.md. The decision record, and the first RFC written in the new format, is docs/rfc/implemented/process/2026-07-05-uniform-rfc-format.md.
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# RFC: Classify RFCs by kind via path-encoded subdirectories
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Status: implemented
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## Problem
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`docs/rfc/` grouped RFCs by **lifecycle** only — `proposed/` / `implemented/` / `rejected/`. Nothing recorded what *kind* of decision each RFC was. The index was one flat list per lifecycle, with no way to scan "show me every simplification" or "every testing-strategy decision." A wave of simplification RFCs landing on the same day made the gap concrete: a reader skimming `proposed/` could not tell a new capability from a removal from a tooling-policy change without opening each file.
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The repo's standing bias is [mechanical quality gates over prose guidelines](2026-06-11-quality-gates.md): a convention that isn't machine-checked rots. So a classification scheme here had to be enforceable, not an honor-system header.
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## Decision
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Add a second axis — the RFC's **class** — and encode it in the path: `{lifecycle}/{class}/yyyy-mm-dd-topic.md`. The folder *is* the label. A file's location declares its class, the closed set is "these folders and no others," and the existing [verify-md-links](2026-06-18-markdown-cross-link-lint.md) gate already protects the path rewrites the move required.
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### The closed set of six classes
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| Class | Covers |
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| `feature` | A new user- or model-facing capability. |
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| `bug-fix` | Corrects a defect or closes a gap a postmortem surfaced. |
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| `simplification` | Removes code, behavior, or surface area without adding a capability. |
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| `architecture` | A structural decision about the **shipped source** — how packages relate, what the runtime vocabulary is. |
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| `process` | Tooling, policy, or workflow **around** the code, not runtime behavior. |
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| `testing` | Test infrastructure and strategy. |
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The `architecture` / `process` line: **architecture** is about the source we ship; **process** is the surrounding tooling and workflow. This RFC is itself a `process` decision — it changes how the repo is organized and gated, not what the harness does at runtime — so it lives under `implemented/process/`.
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### Two gates
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Both are `doc-sync` members, in the `verify-md-wrap` style (tsx ESM, verify-don't-generate, exit non-zero on the first violation):
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- **`scripts/verify-rfc-classification.ts`** — the closed set and index freshness. It asserts every file under a lifecycle folder lives in a class folder from the canonical set (a loose `.md` at a lifecycle root, or an unknown class folder, fails), and that the generated [INDEX.md](../../INDEX.md) byte-matches a fresh render from the tree (see [generate the RFC index tables](2026-07-04-generate-rfc-index-tables.md)). The canonical class set lives as a `const` in `scripts/rfc-index.ts` — the machine source of truth shared with the generator — and [the README](../../README.md) documents it in prose; the class *descriptions* stay hand-written, the index is generated.
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- **`scripts/verify-doc-refs.ts`** — source comments that cite docs. RFC paths are referenced not only from Markdown but from TypeScript doc comments (root-relative prose like `docs/rfc/implemented/testing/2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md`). `verify-md-links` never saw those, so the reorg could have silently orphaned them. This gate scans repo-authored `.ts` under `packages/**` and `examples/**` (excluding built `lib/` and `vendor/`) for `docs/….md` tokens, resolves each root-relative, and asserts it exists. It requires the `.md` extension so extensionless prose (`docs/postmortem/0001`, `docs/architecture.md § Extending The Harness`) is left alone.
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## Alternatives considered
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- **A `Classification:` prose line** in each file (next to `Status:`), parsed by the gate. Workable, but it duplicates into the file a fact the path can already carry, and a line can disagree with its folder. Path-encoding makes the label and its storage the same thing — there is nothing to keep in sync.
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- **A `refactor` class.** It overlaps `simplification` almost entirely; the only discriminator anyone reached for was "does observable behavior change?", which `simplification` already encodes (it does not). One class, not two.
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- **Auto-generating the index** from the filesystem. Rejected here to keep the index hand-written; superseded by [generate the RFC index tables](2026-07-04-generate-rfc-index-tables.md) once stacked proposal waves made the hand-written tables the repo's most conflict-prone docs region — the list is now the fully generated [INDEX.md](../../INDEX.md) while the README prose stays curated.
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## Consequences
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- Every RFC now sits under a class folder, and the index groups by class within each lifecycle. A reader scans one heading to see all simplifications, or all testing decisions.
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- Two more fast tsx scripts in the `doc-sync` chain; no new dependency (the mdast/GFM stack was already present for `verify-md-wrap`/`verify-md-links`).
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- Adding a class is a deliberate act: amend the `const` in `scripts/rfc-index.ts` and the [Classification section](../../README.md#classification), not just `mkdir` a folder. The gate rejects an unknown folder, so an ad-hoc class can't slip in.
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- Source-comment doc references are now gated too — a moved or renamed doc that a `.ts` comment cites fails the pre-push hook, closing a drift class `verify-md-links` structurally could not see.
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