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000-spec-spine-bootstrap

Bootstrap spec system (markdown → compiled JSON authority ledger)

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Foundational contract for spec-spine. Authored truth lives only in markdown (with YAML frontmatter); machine-consumable truth is compiler-emitted JSON only; the corpus compiles in full from day one; every artifact-producing step is a pure, deterministic function of (config, file contents); and a typed authority graph, not a flat pile of claims, governs who may change what. This spec defines what a spec IS. It is tier-1: its `unamendable` anchors are non-overridable, and it bootstraps the corpus by declaring authority it has held since before the graph existed (`origin.retroactive`).

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No ownership claims exported.

Source headings

  1. 000: Bootstrap spec system
  2. 1. The authoring/derived boundary
  3. 2. Identity: directory name equals id
  4. 3. Frontmatter grammar
  5. 4. The typed authority graph
  6. 4.1 Edges: eight types, seven ownership-bearing
  7. 4.2 Authority units: file, section, symbol, directory, crate, module
  8. 4.3 Resolution and amends-awareness
  9. 5. The compiled artifacts
  10. 6. Determinism
  11. 7. The guardrails
  12. 8. Bootstrap order
  13. 9. Status
  14. Amendments received

Frozen anchors

  • markdown-truth-boundary
  • json-truth-boundary
  • determinism-requirement
  • directory-name-equals-id
  • typed-authority-graph
  • refusal-rule