Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Design rationale — recording the reasoning behind a design or decision as it is made — issues, positions and arguments, options and criteria (IBIS, gIBIS, QOC and their successors) — and why such capture systems are or are not used: who bears the cost of capture and who gets the benefit, premature formalization, cognitive overhead, and the groupware adoption problems behind them (ADR-030).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
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| ARG-028 | Inbound references per code and turns per filed entry show which structures anchor and that drift falls as anchoring keeps up with arrival | The line’s proposed measures, counted in the record, as evidence for its persistence and growth-rate theses. The question that is open is whether the measures measure what they are said to: they are computed in the grammar that shapes the argument, so by themselves they cannot certify that drift fell. Proposed, because the dispute over what drift should be judged against is open. | Proposed |