arborist/docs/TICKETS.md
russell@unturf.com 4a7c4aff50
ticket(#000006): move into tickets/ subdir + 134-cycle rolling amend
The ticket file was at docs/ticket-000006-... at top-level; the
tickets/ subdir convention landed before #6 was opened. Move into
docs/tickets/ to match every other ticket.

Amend with the 62-entry post-ticket delta. bench/emergent_log.jsonl
now holds 134 cycles total. Distribution stable vs original 72:
106 UNGROUNDED (79.1%), 22 HYBRID (16.4%), 6 STRICT (4.5%). Ten
new grounded cases all carry appropriate violation labels — zero
EVIDENCE-WARRANTED false-positives across all 134 cycles. Original
tuning candidates: Tomas-deflection resolved by a1dd330,
xxviii-STRICT kept as designed, metaphor sidecar calibration
deferred (still rare).

Reframe ticket as a rolling research log. Emergent stress-testing
is an ongoing thread, not a one-shot defect-fix; future
bench-emergent re-runs append new ## Amend sections here, and any
code-level tunings open their own tickets linking back.

TICKETS.md row reflects the rolling-research framing. Stale
"## Next ID" footer scrubbed from the ticket body (TICKETS.md is
canonical for the next-id counter).
2026-05-02 14:42:42 -04:00

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Aborist tickets — index

Aborist uses a flat ticket-NNNNNN-<slug>.md convention for actionable proposals: defects with a known root cause, design proposals awaiting go/no-go, or scoped enhancements queued for future implementation.

Convention

  • Filename: docs/tickets/ticket-NNNNNN-<slug>.md. The ID is a six-digit zero-padded integer; the slug is hyphen-lowercase and short enough to stay readable on a 100-column terminal.
  • Numbering: monotonic, never reused. Pick the next free integer greater than every existing ticket. The current next ID is on the Next ID line below; bump it when you open a ticket and commit the bump in the same commit as the new ticket file.
  • Header: every ticket starts with
    # Ticket #NNNNNN — <short title>
    
    **Status:** open · awaiting go/no-go      (or "in progress", "closed")
    **Opened:** YYYY-MM-DD
    **Scope:** <one-liner — what this ticket is for>
    **Audience:** <who reads this>
    **Hard constraint:** <invariants this ticket commits to NOT break>
    
  • Body: problem statement, design choices with trade-offs, recommendation, implementation sketch, scope boundaries, status. See ticket-000001-retrieval-keywords-audit-gap.md for a worked template.
  • Closure: when a ticket lands, flip Status to closed · landed in commit <sha> and leave the file in place. Do not delete tickets; they are the design log.

Distinction from other docs

docs/ also contains architecture references and bench journey notes that are NOT tickets — they describe state of the world rather than proposing change. Examples that stay un-numbered:

  • cti-architecture.md (architecture reference)
  • mesh.md, mesh-deploy.md (architecture + ops reference)
  • qa-modes-bench-2026-04-30.md (point-in-time bench journal)
  • verifier-semantic-gap-design.md, self-reference-design.md (older design docs that pre-date the ticket convention; leave as-is unless retroactively promoting one to a ticket adds value)
  • concept-relations-design.md (architecture reference for the per-shard concept_relations synonym/rivalry layer + the 1.6% storage-tax rationale; landed 2026-05-01)

If a doc proposes change AND awaits a decision AND has scoped implementation cost, it's a ticket. Otherwise it's reference.

Index

Newest first. Update on every open/close.

ID Title Status Opened Directive
#000007 Query-layer hyphen folding closed · 2026-05-02 2026-05-02
#000006 Bench-emergent findings (rolling research log) open · rolling 2026-05-02
#000005 Label ladder migration (POINTER-LINKED → …) closed · 2026-05-02 2026-05-01 D7
#000004 Directive coverage in bench summary closed · acd1f9c 2026-05-01 D8
#000003 Anchor-class warrant generalization (Module H+) closed · 2026-05-02 2026-05-01 D6
#000002 Reference-Frame Polarity Contract (Module L) closed · 2026-05-02 2026-05-01 D3
#000001 Retrieval-keywords audit gap closed · 2026-05-02 2026-05-01 D4

Next ID

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