The-Running-Dev · Oct 7, 2026 · Oct 7, 2026
diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
@@ -23,14 +23,3 @@ from its source.
 
 A duplicate that can disagree with its original is the failure mode `CLAUDE.md` itself
 tracks, applied to the instructions. One file, one answer.
-
-## Writing a design-state record
-
-The kit no longer ships `/agentkit:track`, `Test-DesignState.ps1` or `Update-DesignProjection.ps1`,
-so nothing regenerates this repository's `design/state/` records. What remains from the earlier
-half-adoption is the work-mirror (`design/state/work/`, one `WorkRef` per issue — `design/90-decisions.md`,
-2026-08-24) and `design/state-index.md`, the projection over it (2026-09-05); both are frozen as
-they stand until a separate decision retires them (`design/90-decisions.md`, 2026-10-07).
-
-**Write the decision-log entry alone**, in `design/90-decisions.md`'s own register, in its existing
-format. Do not hand-edit `design/state-index.md` or `design/state/`.
diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -415,9 +415,7 @@ executed, but it never overrides the five canonical design files.
 | `/agentkit:align` | Opus, high to decide which side of a drift is correct; Sonnet, medium to apply the edits |
 | `/agentkit:install`, `/agentkit:install-all`, `/agentkit:install-review`, `/agentkit:sync` | Sonnet, medium — escalate only to judge whether a hard stop is safe to resolve |
 
-**Tracking work.** The kit no longer opens issues from `design/30-slices.md`; `design/state/work/`
-and `design/state-index.md` are an adopted-but-orphaned mirror, kept in place until the user
-decides whether to retire them. Opening, labelling, closing, commenting on, and editing an
+**Tracking work.** The kit no longer opens issues from `design/30-slices.md`; Opening, labelling, closing, commenting on, and editing an
 issue — including one opened by someone else — needs no per-instance approval in a repository
 the user owns; issues are cheap and reversible. Creating a milestone or a project is carved
 out the same way; deleting either is not. Writing to a repository the user does not own is

diff --git a/design/90-decisions.md b/design/90-decisions.md
@@ -2223,3 +2223,9 @@ Context: `/agentkit:align` after the `v2026.10.07` kit sync. `20-contract.md` ca
 Chosen: Delete both from `20-contract.md`; C1–C20 stay as the asserted invariant set. `design/state/` and `design/state-index.md` are left in place; retiring them stays a separate decision, as recorded 2026-10-07. The freeze convention lives in `CLAUDE.md`.
 Rejected: A tombstone paragraph — the 2026-10-07 kit-sync entry already records why. Retiring `design/state/` in the same change — a larger diff, and `AGENTS.md` still documents the mirror.
 Reversibility: cheap. One revert restores the text.
+
+### 2026-10-07 — Retire `design/state/` and `design/state-index.md`
+Context: The kit's `v2026.10.07` removed `/track`, `Test-DesignState.ps1` and `Update-DesignProjection.ps1`, leaving the 86-record work mirror and its index orphaned with no generator; the 2026-10-07 kit-sync entry deferred retiring them. GitHub issues are the tracker of record.
+Chosen: Delete `design/state/` and `design/state-index.md`; remove the *Writing a design-state record* section from `AGENTS.md` and the orphaned-mirror sentence from `CLAUDE.md`. Earlier decision-log entries and `30-slices.md` text that name them are history and stay.
+Rejected: Keep them frozen — a stale mirror of issue state that can only mislead.
+Reversibility: cheap. Restoring is a checkout of the parent commit's `design/state*`.
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