# AUDIT — ADR-0.0.18 ADR Taxonomy Doctrine

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| ADR ID | ADR-0.0.18-adr-taxonomy-doctrine |
| ADR Title | ADR Taxonomy — Operator Doctrine (pool curation, PRD→ADR derivation, epic grouping) |
| Kind / Lane | foundation / lite |
| ADR Dir | docs/design/adr/foundation/ADR-0.0.18-adr-taxonomy-doctrine |
| Audit Date | 2026-04-20 |
| Auditor(s) | agent:claude-opus-4-7 (human attestation recorded per-OBPI on 2026-04-20 by Jeffry Babb) |

## Feature Demonstration (Step 3 — MANDATORY)

ADR-0.0.18 delivers **five operator-facing surfaces** that together lift the ADR taxonomy from mechanical vocabulary (ADR-0.0.17) to usable doctrine. Each is demonstrated below with a live command and observed output.

### Capability 1: Canonical taxonomy concepts page (OBPI-01)

A single page an adopter reads to ground kind/lane/semver decisions — no source-spelunking through `AGENTS.md`.

```bash
$ wc -l docs/user/concepts/adr-taxonomy.md
     187 docs/user/concepts/adr-taxonomy.md

$ uv run gz validate --taxonomy
Validated: taxonomy

✓ All validations passed (1 scopes).
```

**Why it matters:** The page fixes the gap ADR-0.0.17 left behind. Mechanical enforcement (`--kind` flag, `--taxonomy` validator) tells adopters *what* the taxonomy is; the concepts page tells them *when to choose which and why*, with one-sentence kind definitions, a 2×2 kind×lane matrix, the kind/semver binding, and a worked example per kind drawn from gzkit's own ADR history.

### Capability 2: PRD → ADR derivation runbook section (OBPI-02)

A reusable decomposition procedure for operators scaffolding their first ADRs from a PRD.

```bash
$ grep -l "adr-taxonomy.md" docs/user/runbook.md
docs/user/runbook.md

$ grep -n "^## PRD" docs/user/runbook.md | head -1
229:## PRD → ADR Derivation
```

**Why it matters:** Adopters presented with a PRD and a Constitution no longer have to intuit which ADRs to write. The runbook walks PRD-GZKIT-1.0.0 as a worked example, names the foundation-first-is-an-anti-pattern trap, and cross-links every first-mention of a kind to the concepts page.

### Capability 3: Pool curation policy (OBPI-03)

A named policy with entry, promotion, retirement, and cadence criteria.

```bash
$ wc -l docs/governance/pool-curation.md
     139 docs/governance/pool-curation.md
```

Policy documents the pool's role, entry criteria (problem visible + solution sketched + no committed sponsor), promotion criteria (sponsor willing to attest + acceptance criteria ready + no unresolved foundation deps + capacity), retirement paths (superseded / rejected / dissolved — file preserved), and cadence (during `gz tidy` sweeps, at minor-version closeout, opportunistically on new PRDs).

**Why it matters:** Pool ADRs no longer accumulate silently. The policy lets operators create pool entries freely while keeping promotion deliberate — the "pool freely, promote deliberately" maxim has a documented home.

### Capability 4: Epic grouping via `gz status --epic <slug>` (OBPI-04)

A filter on an existing command that groups pool ADRs by epic, matching EITHER filename prefix OR frontmatter `epic:` field.

```bash
$ uv run gz status --help | grep -A 2 -- "--epic"
  --epic SLUG    Filter pool ADRs by epic (filename prefix or frontmatter
                 'epic:').

$ uv run gz status --epic agent-runtime
Lane: lite

No pool ADRs match epic 'agent-runtime'.
(exit 0)
```

**Why it matters:** Epics survive pool→active transitions because the slug lives in the filename and optionally the frontmatter. The CLI affordance is Lite (non-contract-changing filter), empty matches exit 0 (empty is valid — the epic just has no members), and the `gz status` default behavior is byte-structurally identical without the flag. Operators can group by eye (directory listing) or programmatically (`--epic`), and both paths agree.

### Capability 5: Skill prompt enrichment for `gz-plan` and `gz-adr-create` (OBPI-05)

The two authoring skills now prompt for `--kind` with the concise heuristic inline and cite the concepts page by path.

```bash
$ grep -l "adr-taxonomy" .gzkit/skills/gz-plan/SKILL.md .gzkit/skills/gz-adr-create/SKILL.md
.gzkit/skills/gz-plan/SKILL.md
.gzkit/skills/gz-adr-create/SKILL.md
```

**Why it matters:** The no-default `--kind` CLI design from ADR-0.0.17 becomes an informed choice rather than a guess. Operators running `gz plan create` or `gz adr create` through the skill layer see the heuristic (foundation = invariant; feature = capability; pool = noted-not-committed) at the decision point, with the concepts page path for deeper context. The skills respect the locked vocabulary — no residual "normal ADR" or "versioned ADR" language.

### Value Summary

Before ADR-0.0.18: an adopter reading ADR-0.0.17's mechanical taxonomy could validate *what* a `kind:` field is, but had no doctrine for *when* to pick foundation vs feature vs pool. After ADR-0.0.18: a single concepts page answers the question, the runbook walks a worked decomposition, a pool policy governs the waiting area, epics survive promotion, and the authoring skills surface the decision at creation time — all five surfaces mutually cross-linked and held coherent by `mkdocs --strict` plus the `--taxonomy` validator. The operator-facing contract is now substantial without any new external schema or CLI-verb surface beyond the Lite `--epic` filter.

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## Execution Log

| # | Check | Command | Result | Notes / Proof |
|---|-------|---------|--------|---------------|
| 1 | Ledger completeness | `uv run gz adr audit-check ADR-0.0.18` | ✓ | PASS, 34/34 REQs covered. `audit/proofs/audit-check.txt` |
| 2 | ADR lifecycle / OBPI state | `uv run gz adr status ADR-0.0.18` | ✓ | Lifecycle=Completed, 5/5 attested_completed, no issues. `audit/proofs/adr-status.txt` |
| 3 | Gate covenant | `uv run gz gates --adr ADR-0.0.18` | ✓ | Gate 1 PASS (post-reconcile); Gate 2 PASS (3249 tests OK). `audit/proofs/gates.txt` |
| 4 | Concepts page + strict mkdocs | `test -f … && uv run mkdocs build --strict` | ✓ | 187 lines; build clean. `audit/proofs/mkdocs-strict.txt` |
| 5 | Pool curation policy present | `test -f docs/governance/pool-curation.md` | ✓ | 139 lines |
| 6 | Runbook cross-links concepts page | `grep -l "adr-taxonomy.md" docs/user/runbook.md` | ✓ | Match at `## PRD → ADR Derivation` |
| 7 | `gz status --epic` registered | `uv run gz status --help` | ✓ | Flag visible with help text |
| 8 | `gz status --epic` empty-match exit 0 | `uv run gz status --epic agent-runtime` | ✓ | `audit/proofs/epic-filter-demo.txt` |
| 9 | Skill prompts cite concepts page | `grep -l "adr-taxonomy" .gzkit/skills/gz-plan/SKILL.md …/gz-adr-create/SKILL.md` | ✓ | Both files |
| 10 | Taxonomy validator clean | `uv run gz validate --taxonomy` | ✓ | `audit/proofs/validate-taxonomy.txt` |
| 11 | Lint clean (ARB) | `uv run gz arb ruff` | ✓ | `arb-ruff-076bfde7a935452c9706437b5b3efd2b` |
| 12 | Typecheck clean (ARB) | `uv run gz arb typecheck` | ✓ | `arb-step-typecheck-379f08e9fb41408388c1c95e63b2da39` |
| 13 | Tests pass (ARB) | `uv run gz arb step --name unittest -- uv run -m unittest -q` | ✓ | `arb-step-unittest-fbdc77c7a6ac4c8f90d4706e07dc90d7` (3249 tests OK, 1 skipped) |
| 14 | Docs build clean (ARB) | `uv run gz arb step --name mkdocs -- uv run mkdocs build --strict` | ✓ | `arb-step-mkdocs-23b6ed03189a4abe86a966c3b43b4426` |
| 15 | CLI audit clean | `uv run gz cli audit` | ✓ | `audit/proofs/cli-audit.txt` |

## Dataset Spot Examples

**Taxonomy validator transcript:**

```text
$ uv run gz validate --taxonomy
Validated: taxonomy

✓ All validations passed (1 scopes).
```

**Gate-status after frontmatter reconcile:**

```text
$ uv run gz gates --adr ADR-0.0.18 | head -5
⚠ Deprecated: `gz gates` will be removed in a future release. Use `gz closeout` instead.
  ✓ Gate 1 (ADR): PASS
  Gate 2 (TDD): uv run gz test
```

**Audit-check PASS:**

```text
$ uv run gz adr audit-check ADR-0.0.18
ADR audit-check: ADR-0.0.18-adr-taxonomy-doctrine
PASS All linked OBPIs are completed with evidence.
  - OBPI-0.0.18-01-concepts-page
  - OBPI-0.0.18-02-runbook-prd-to-adr
  - OBPI-0.0.18-03-pool-curation-policy
  - OBPI-0.0.18-04-epic-grouping
  - OBPI-0.0.18-05-skill-prompt-enrichment

Coverage: 34/34 REQs covered (100.0%)
```

## Summary Table

| Aspect | Status |
|--------|--------|
| Implementation Completeness | ✓ All five OBPIs shipped and attested (2026-04-20) |
| Value Demonstration | ✓ Each of five delivered capabilities shown running with live output |
| Data Integrity | ✓ Ledger 100% coverage (34/34 REQs); frontmatter reconciled to ledger truth |
| Gate Covenant | ✓ Gates 1, 2, 5 PASS; Gates 3/4 n/a for Lite lane |
| Documentation Alignment | ✓ mkdocs --strict clean; taxonomy validator clean; cross-links resolve |
| Test / Type / Lint Quality | ✓ 3249 tests OK (1 skipped); ruff clean; ty clean |
| Shortfalls Resolved | ✓ OBPI-01 reflection drift + pure-doc REQ `[doc]` tagging + frontmatter ledger drift all fixed in-flight |

## Evidence Index

All proof logs saved under `docs/design/adr/foundation/ADR-0.0.18-adr-taxonomy-doctrine/audit/proofs/`:

- `audit-check.txt` — `gz adr audit-check ADR-0.0.18` PASS, 34/34 coverage
- `adr-status.txt` — `gz adr status ADR-0.0.18` table, 5/5 attested_completed
- `gates.txt` — `gz gates --adr ADR-0.0.18` all gates PASS post-reconcile
- `mkdocs-strict.txt` — `mkdocs build --strict` exit 0
- `mkdocs-strict-arb.txt` — ARB-wrapped mkdocs strict build (receipt `arb-step-mkdocs-23b6ed03189a4abe86a966c3b43b4426`)
- `lint.txt` — `gz arb ruff` exit 0 (receipt `arb-ruff-076bfde7a935452c9706437b5b3efd2b`)
- `typecheck.txt` — `gz arb typecheck` exit 0 (receipt `arb-step-typecheck-379f08e9fb41408388c1c95e63b2da39`)
- `unittest.txt` — `gz arb step --name unittest -- uv run -m unittest -q` exit 0, 3249 tests OK (receipt `arb-step-unittest-fbdc77c7a6ac4c8f90d4706e07dc90d7`)
- `validate-taxonomy.txt` — `gz validate --taxonomy` passed
- `cli-audit.txt` — `gz cli audit` exit 0
- `epic-filter-demo.txt` — `gz status --epic agent-runtime` empty-match exit 0

## Recommendations

Three shortfalls were surfaced during the audit and **all were remediated in flight** per Behavioral Invariants 2/4 (adjacent defects, fix-or-file). No blocking discrepancies remain.

- **Shortfall 1 (resolved):** OBPI-01 Implementation Summary was authored as prose paragraphs. The ledger reflection validator `_has_substantive_implementation_summary` only recognizes bullet lists, so the `gz adr status` output flagged *"brief implementation summary is missing or placeholder."*
  - **Remedy applied:** Reformatted the summary into scope/kinds/orthogonality/binding/invariant/examples/cross-links/build-gate bullets that map 1:1 to REQ-01..07. `audit/proofs/adr-status.txt` now shows `implementation_evidence_ok: true` for OBPI-01 with empty `reflection_issues`.

- **Shortfall 2 (resolved):** Pure-documentation OBPIs (01, 03, 05 — and OBPI-02 itself, whose Requirements section was `[doc]`-tagged but Acceptance-Criteria lines were not) were missing the `[doc]` prefix on their acceptance-criteria checkbox lines. `gz covers` counted 27 REQs as uncovered testable work, causing `gz adr audit-check` to FAIL.
  - **Remedy applied:** Tagged all pure-doc acceptance-criteria REQ lines across OBPI-01/02/03/05 with `[doc]` and checked the boxes to reflect attested completion. OBPI-04 (with real `@covers` unit tests) left untagged. Coverage now 34/34 (100%); audit-check PASS.

- **Shortfall 3 (resolved):** ADR file frontmatter `status: Draft` diverged from ledger `Completed`. Gate 1 FAILed on frontmatter drift.
  - **Remedy applied:** Ran `uv run gz frontmatter reconcile` (canonical recovery path). One file rewritten. Gate 1 now PASS.

No further issues found. The audit's Feature Demonstration section shows each of the five delivered capabilities running against live artifacts.

## Attestation

I attest that ADR-0.0.18 (ADR Taxonomy — Operator Doctrine) is implemented as intended, that the five OBPIs have each delivered their operator-facing surface, that all evidence captured under `audit/proofs/` is reproducible, and that the three in-flight shortfalls surfaced during this audit were remediated in place before VALIDATED promotion.

Human attestation was recorded per-OBPI on 2026-04-20 by Jeffry Babb (see each OBPI brief's § Human Attestation). This audit does not require an additional human Gate-5 signature — it records the agent's Layer-2 verification that Layer-1 proof is present, coherent, and demonstrable.

Signed: agent:claude-opus-4-7 — 2026-04-20
