North-star precedence
North-star outranks the backlog
- Status
- PUBLISHED
- Priority
- P1
- Rank
- INVARIANT
- Cited
- 13×
- Updated
- 2026-05-14
Assertion
Changes not serving the north-star intent and not load-bearing
infrastructure go to the frozen backlog, not the codebase.
Why
Scope dressed as a milestone is how products lose their spine. Every
doc declares its rank, and the
outranks DAG adjudicates conflict.Mechanism
Each doc carries
rank and outranks in frontmatter. The drift-watcher
subagent reads the DAG when adjudicating ambiguity.Cited by
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- decisionRatify MR-16 (catalogue realism) and add MR-17 (playbook physically present)
- decisionDecision docs without explicit `outranks:` default to the repo's top-level north-star intent
- decisionPETROVA Baseline v1 — Data Hygiene + Governance Propagation
- +5 more