baseline-source-of-truth-maintenance
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Safely maintain canonical reverse-engineering baseline after verified current-source changes. Enforces evidence lifecycle, promotion gates, supersession history, and removal of stale claims.
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11 rules. About 0 are common, 11 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 25
create new evidence rows
- Distinctive: line 28
update canonical understanding/matrix
- Distinctive: line 29
update hypotheses/open questions
- Distinctive: line 34
Only PROMOTED VERIFIED claims enter:
- Distinctive: line 40
Never delete contradictory history without trace.
- Distinctive: line 47
Every canonical claim must:
- Distinctive: line 55
When a verified change affects architecture, runtime flow, integration selection, configuration behavior, state ownership, or lifecycle:
- Distinctive: line 57
update the relevant model artifact.
- Distinctive: line 58
update the affected Mermaid diagram when relationships changed.
- Distinctive: line 60
keep the readiness/adversarial audit separate from the TDD.
- Distinctive: line 62
Do not leave canonical evidence updated while the consumer-facing architecture model remains stale.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Baseline Source-of-Truth Maintenance — 4.0
Preconditions
Proceed only if:
- user states change is merged/current, or
- checked-out source proves change exists, or
- user explicitly requests rebaseline against current source.
Do Not Trust Existing Baseline Blindly
Re-verify high-impact affected claims.
Update Process
- determine current branch/commit
- identify affected promoted claims
- verify current source
- search counterexamples
- create new evidence rows
- mark old evidence SUPERSEDED when appropriate
- promote new claims
- update canonical understanding/matrix
- update hypotheses/open questions
- preserve evidence history
Canonical Rule
Only PROMOTED VERIFIED claims enter:
00_current_understanding.md00_master_decision_matrix.md
Evidence History
Never delete contradictory history without trace.
Use:
E-0042 SUPERSEDED BY E-0198.
Final Check
Every canonical claim must:
- reference Evidence ID
- match current source scope
- have promotion status PROMOTED
Consumer Baseline Maintenance
When a verified change affects architecture, runtime flow, integration selection, configuration behavior, state ownership, or lifecycle:
- update the relevant model artifact;
- update the affected Mermaid diagram when relationships changed;
- update
CURRENT_STATE_TDD.md; - keep the readiness/adversarial audit separate from the TDD.
Do not leave canonical evidence updated while the consumer-facing architecture model remains stale.
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