# Strategy

Secondary material for product framing, long-term thesis, and research direction.

Strategy answers "why this product?" and "what long-range bet are we making?" It is directional material, not the source of truth for shipped behavior, and it should not be read as a promise that every thesis idea is on the current product roadmap.

## How to read this section

| If you need...                        | Go here                                                    | Why                                                                    |
| ------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Shipped language behavior             | [Language Reference](../reference/index.md)                | The authoritative contract for shipped syntax, semantics, and limits   |
| Learning and onboarding               | [Guides](../guides/index.md)                               | Tutorials and conceptual walkthroughs for the shipped runtime          |
| Current evidence and caveats          | [Evaluation](../evaluation/index.md)                       | The public evidence set for what works today and where the gaps remain |
| Backlog status and near-term tracking | [Roadmap](../roadmap.md)                                   | `.beads`-backed shipped, tracked, and exploratory status               |
| Active proposals and planning packs   | [WIP Features](../wip/index.md)                            | Unshipped design work, imported packs, and design history              |
| Research evidence behind the strategy | [Research Reports](../research/README.md)                  | External-source syntheses that inform product direction                |
| Repo-wide doc boundary rules          | [Documentation Governance](../documentation-governance.md) | How to interpret strategy, roadmap, research, WIP, and reference pages |

Read this section after you understand the shipped product surface. The thesis pages are intentionally broader than the current product contract.

## Pages

| Doc                                                                                    | Focus                                                              |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| [Positioning](positioning.md)                                                          | Product framing and category boundaries                            |
| [Thesis](thesis.md)                                                                    | Long-term research claim, not a shipped feature guarantee          |
| [Thesis Research Roadmap](thesis-roadmap.md)                                           | Concrete experiments to prove or disprove the thesis               |
| [Current Plan After May 11 Evidence](current-plan-2026-05-12.md)                       | Current operator plan, proposed beads, and claim boundaries        |
| [May 11 Challenge and Defense](research-synthesis-challenge-and-defense-2026-05-11.md) | Current correction layer for May 11 novelty and priority claims    |
| [Research Synthesis](../evaluation/2026-05-06-research-synthesis.md)                   | Current cross-experiment verdicts on which hypotheses have held up |
| [Roadmap](../roadmap.md)                                                               | Shipped-vs-tracked product roadmap tied to `.beads`                |

For May 11 hybrid/local claims, read the challenge-and-defense doc and current
plan before the original 2026-05-11 synthesis. They supersede the original
novelty framing and operator-priority ranking.
