Seventeen markdown files at the repo root, twelve of them dated one-shot
reports sitting next to CLAUDE.md. That is why stale docs read as
current: nothing in the path said which was which.
Root now keeps CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md. Living docs move under docs/
and carry a Last verified line. Dated measurements move to docs/evals/
ISO-prefixed, and are never edited after the day, so a newer number is
a new file. The senior review moves to docs/archive/.
Every reference was rewritten across markdown, Go comments, the Makefile
and the recall fixture. The touched Go packages still build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
15 root markdown files, ~4,900 lines against ~33,000 lines of Go, with at least
three pairs contradicting each other. When five documents describe the
architecture, the code becomes the only trustworthy one — which defeats the
point of having them. That drift is why the resident-model question had four
incompatible answers.
SPEC.md, maven.md and ROADMAP.md are deduped into DESIGN.md rather than
concatenated, with a "Superseded" section carrying eight retired decisions and
what replaced each: classifier-owns-the-route (the cascade is still the live
path, but as a stopgap, not a design to extend), faster-whisper/vosk/silero,
the small-model phrasing claim, sqlcipher, the Kotlin/Spring sketches,
obsidian->chroma, script deployment, and FloorEnrollment. Superseded material
is kept and marked rather than deleted, so it cannot read as current.
SESSION-05/06-07-2026.md and PLANS.md are removed outright — git history holds
them, and both were verified tracked before deletion.
Go doc comments citing the deleted files are repointed to the equivalent
DESIGN.md sections. Several asserted designs that were already retired, so the
claims are corrected and not just relinked: stt.go named faster-whisper as
production (it is whisper.cpp), tts.go named silero (it is piper), intent.go
still described the classifier as owning the route, and stale vosk/chroma
vocabulary is replaced. ECOSYSTEM-SPEC.md references are deliberately
untouched — that is a different document, and a naive grep for SPEC.md matches
it.
Root markdown drops from 4,880 to ~3,700 lines. The review's ~1,500 target is
not reachable while keeping the files it also said to keep — those alone are
2,553 lines — so trimming further needs a separate decision on
MAVEN_ECOSYSTEM_ARCHITECTURE.md and PROGRESS.md.
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