- GOALS.md collapsed to summary entries (ID/status/title/Scope/detail pointer): 104.6KB -> 23KB so a full read stays cheap; Scope lines kept verbatim so path-grep goal discovery still works
- canonicality split: index canonical for ID/status/title/Scope, detail file canonical for Goal:/Acceptance:; all 61 detail-file headers reconciled from the index (fixes stale copies, e.g. G-036 detail acceptance predated the achieved rework), bodies preserved untouched
- detail files created for the three index-only goals G-017, G-034, G-054; every goal now has one
- 10 achieved goals (G-007 G-015 G-036 G-037 G-040 G-046 G-049 G-054 G-058 G-059) archived: summary records appended to GOALS-archive.md, detail files moved to goals/archive/; archive-on-flip replaces the ~30-achieved-entries trigger
- GOALS.md preamble/rules reworked: read workflow (read index in full, then detail files of scope-intersecting goals before editing), contract spans both tiers with proposal-first unchanged, next-free-ID counts the archive, achieved flip judged against the detail-file Acceptance and includes archiving
- progress convention codified from G-001 increment-1 practice: index entries carry status only, never progress; incremental progress lives in the detail file's ## Progress section (landed/remaining); achieved flip requires the remaining-work list resolved - a partial increment never flips a goal
- goals/AGENTS.md rewritten for the split (required 4-field header, one detail file per goal, orphan rules covering archive/); root AGENTS.md Child DOX Index + Repo-wide Notes updated; GOALS-archive.md preamble updated
- stale detail-file paths updated to goals/archive/ in src/lib/app-punkscript/punkscript.tcl (comment), runtimebash_wsl.test, wslprobe.tcl and the G-042 detail file; propagated copies (root lib/, src/vfs/_vfscommon.vfs, src/_build) left to refresh via normal build steps
- no project version bump: governance docs and source comments only, no user-visible shell behaviour
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Root AGENTS.md "Git Commit Conventions" renamed "Commit Conventions (any
VCS)": the Co-Authored-By/AI-attribution ban and the Assisted-by trailer
apply to git commits and fossil checkins alike (git parses trailers
structurally, fossil comments are free text - either way the trailer is
the last line of the message). Generated projects start fossil-only but
may adopt git; punkshell itself is git-primary today and could flip.
CLAUDE.md mirror section updated to match.
G-027 detail: documentation/goals ownership design input - layout-owned
child AGENTS.md docs ride the pull channel under the
unmodified-since-install classification; project-owned skeletons (thin
root AGENTS.md, GOALS.md, goals/AGENTS.md, empty GOALS-archive.md) are
seeded once and never pulled; commit conventions are part of the seed
(developer-changeable, VCS-neutral); layout-owned marker convention;
transitive chains inherit the parent''s modified docs as their baseline.
G-012 detail: AGENTS.md template payloads recorded as the same hazard
class as live .gitignore payloads - a template AGENTS.md under
src/project_layouts/ is binding DOX for agents walking the punkshell tree
though written for generated projects; needs the same inert storage +
materialize-at-generation treatment.
First field test: the tomlish project was seeded today with the thin root
AGENTS.md + CLAUDE.md + GOALS framework this design describes.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Projects generated by dev project.new receive a layout snapshot that
drifts; the current remedy is a push from punkshell (project.new -force 1
-update 1). G-027: one command run inside the derived project pulls
make.tcl/build.tcl, bootsupport modules/libs and template payloads from
the originating punkshell project - .punkcheck records remain the
provenance basis, origin identity becomes durable to workdir moves (not
relative paths alone; projects.work discovery as re-locator), VCS
awareness on both ends (G-026 clean-checkout policy on the source,
uncommitted-local-modification detection on the target), and the
remote-pull question gets a recorded decision.
Detail file records the motivating incident (tomlish 2026-07-06: a stale
make.tcl whose bootsupport updater was disabled by the very drift it
needed to fix - broken bundled fileutil::traverse under Tcl 9) and the
constraint that the pull entrypoint must not depend on the freshness of
what it updates.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Julian Noble