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Three READMEs under .machine_readable/ described the record format in their
own words. Each now points at the one normative document instead.

What changed

  • descriptiles/README.adoc — rewritten as real AsciiDoc. It was Markdown
    inside a .adoc; Asciidoctor's Markdown compatibility carried the headings
    and bullets, but both [label](url) links rendered as literal bracket text
    (verified by rendering the pre-change file). Drops the deprecated "6A2"
    label, replaces the dead standards/tree/main/a2ml link with the grammar
    pointer, keeps the two links verified live, and states that DEED has no
    key = value form. Documents 0-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml, CLADE.a2ml and
    anchors/, which the old file omitted.
  • README.adoc — the pillar stub gains the normative pointer and a
    description of every subdirectory actually present.
  • contractiles/README.adoc — pointer banner only, body untouched.

Scope and known-stale things this PR deliberately does not fix

  • Zero files converted. Every .a2ml file keeps its name and content. The
    extension rename is a separate atomic estate-wide change.
  • The spec path dangles until standards#752 merges. deed/spec/DEED-GRAMMAR-SPEC.adoc
    is not on hyperpolymath/standards@origin/main yet; it exists only on that
    pull request's branch. Every pointer added here says so in-line.
  • .githooks/validate-a2ml.sh is untouched and remains blind to .deed.
    It globs *.a2ml only and contains zero occurrences of .deed. This copy is
    not divergent — an earlier version of this description said it was, and that
    was wrong. A census of both canonical trees (2026-09-09) found 149 copies of
    validate-a2ml.sh carrying 21 distinct hashes, of which 120 (80.5%) share the
    single hash 74494b9e… — scaffoldia's exact hash.
    The validator population is
    a stamped monoculture, and this file is a member of the dominant cluster.
    The two upstreams being patched are each a lone outlier:
    a2ml-ecosystem:validate-action/validate-a2ml.sh (60c5d3e1…) is 1 copy and
    a2ml:actions/validate/validate-a2ml.sh (993679e8…) is 1 copy;
    rsr-template-repo:.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh (4cf60bb4…) is a third variant
    held by 2 files and is not the stamping source either. So
    a2ml-ecosystem#52 and a2ml#3 fix the two outliers and reach none of the 120.
    Re-stamping the dominant cluster is task fix: scaffoldia identity + descriptiles migration + CI-green sweep #9, is not answered here, and what
    actually stamped those 120 is still unidentified. (The census scanned working
    trees, so 149 is a floor, not a ceiling.)
  • contractiles/README.adoc cites four paths that do not exist —
    must/Mustfile, trust/Trustfile.hs, dust/Dustfile, intend/Intentfile.
    Recorded in the banner, not repaired: the verb-directory layout and the file
    extensions are governed by separate rulings.
  • Not a template source. The strings changed here appear in no other file
    in this repository, so no generated repo is left stale by this change.

Verification

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…tive source

Three READMEs in this pillar described the record format in their own words.
Each now points at the one normative document instead. No .a2ml file is
touched and nothing is renamed or converted.

descriptiles/README.adoc — was Markdown inside a .adoc. Asciidoctor's Markdown
compatibility carried the ATX headings and the "-" bullets, but both
[label](url) links rendered as literal bracket text with the URL auto-linked
beside them; verified by rendering the pre-change file. Rewritten as real
AsciiDoc. Drops the deprecated "6A2" term, whose own target names seven
formats. Replaces the one dead link — standards/tree/main/a2ml, whose subtree
is gone from origin/main — with the DEED grammar pointer; the other two links
were verified live and are kept. States explicitly that DEED has no key = value
form, since the absence of that statement is the documented cause of the
family-wide divergence. Also documents the three entries the old file omitted:
0-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml, CLADE.a2ml and anchors/, each recorded as open work rather
than described as settled. The "delete .scm sources after transpilation"
instruction is marked withdrawn pending reconciliation, because s-expression is
a sanctioned surface dialect, not a transient build input.

README.adoc — was a three-line stub. Now carries the pillar-level normative
pointer and describes each of the eleven subdirectories and root files actually
present, including the AI-manifest numbering inconsistency.

contractiles/README.adoc — pointer banner only; the body is untouched. Records
that its Contents list names four paths (must/Mustfile, trust/Trustfile.hs,
dust/Dustfile, intend/Intentfile) none of which exists here, rather than
silently repairing them.

Verified: asciidoctor renders all three files clean, exit 0, no warnings.
Verified: the strings changed here appear in no other file in the repository,
so this is not a scaffolding template source and no generated repo is left
stale by it.

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  • Documentation
    • Added and updated README documentation for the machine-readable content and record families.
    • Documented DEED as the normative grammar and clarified its s-expression format.
    • Recorded the transition from A2ML to DEED while retaining existing .a2ml filenames pending a coordinated rename.
    • Added inventories of available content and documented unresolved naming and numbering inconsistencies.

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The change adds and revises AsciiDoc READMEs for the .machine_readable pillar, contractiles, and descriptiles. The documents standardise references to DEED, record current file layouts, describe generation rules, and note unresolved naming and numbering inconsistencies.

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DEED documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pillar overview
.machine_readable/README.adoc
Adds the pillar purpose, contents list, DEED grammar reference, naming transition, and AI-manifest numbering note.
Contractile grammar reference
.machine_readable/contractiles/README.adoc
Documents the normative grammar source and records the published path and extension mismatches.
Descriptile definition and generation
.machine_readable/descriptiles/README.adoc
Defines the descriptile record family, lists settled and unsettled files, updates .scm generation guidance, and revises related links.

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This documentation update improves DEED guidance, but conflicting normative-language and obsolete file instructions could misdirect contributors. Resolve or explicitly qualify these statements before relying on the READMEs as operational guidance.

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Inline comments:
In @.machine_readable/contractiles/README.adoc:
- Around line 19-26: Update the fill-in instructions in the README to reference
the actual files: Mustfile.a2ml, Trustfile.a2ml, Adjustfile.a2ml,
Intentfile.a2ml, bust/Bustfile.a2ml, and dust/Dustfile.a2ml. Alternatively,
clearly mark those instructions as historical and non-actionable instead of
directing users to nonexistent paths.

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- Around line 16-20: Update the DEED documentation rule in the root README so
the repeated grammar summaries in the contractiles and descriptiles READMEs are
explicitly identified as non-normative, or remove those repeated grammar
statements while retaining pointers to the authoritative definition.

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.machine_readable/descriptiles/README.adoc (1)

34-60: LGTM!

Also applies to: 62-73, 75-85

.machine_readable/README.adoc (1)

19-20: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration

Keep the DEED syntax statement.

.githooks/validate-a2ml.sh is a broad A2ML validator, not a DEED grammar validator. Its validate_a2ml function recognises several A2ML dialects and checks fields, attestation blocks and malformed brackets. The repository identifies DEED-GRAMMAR-SPEC.adoc as the sole normative grammar. Therefore, the hook's handling of name = value and [section] does not make them DEED productions or create a documentation conflict.

Comment thread .machine_readable/contractiles/README.adoc
Comment thread .machine_readable/README.adoc
…actual contents

The pillar README's `ai/` entry listed `CLAUDE.md` and `GEMINI.md`. Neither
file is in that directory. The listing was copied from the examples in
`ai/README.adoc` rather than measured against the directory.

Measured contents of `.machine_readable/ai/`: `AI.a2ml`,
`0.2-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml`, `.clinerules`, `.cursorrules`, `.windsurfrules`,
`README.adoc`. The entry now names those.

This is a §5 correction — a README whose whole argument is that the format's
documentation must be verified rather than restated should not itself carry an
unverified inventory.

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Both findings were verified against the files rather than taken on trust; both
were real.

1. The banner asserted that every README in this tree is a pointer to the DEED
   spec and "never a restatement", and then immediately restated the syntax
   rule. That is a contradiction on its own terms. The repetition is deliberate
   — the rule's absence from the family's documentation is the measured cause of
   the TOML-shaped divergence across the estate — so the fix is to say so: the
   sentence is now marked explicitly non-normative, with the spec named as
   governing where the two ever disagree. Applied to all three banners.

2. `contractiles/README.adoc` recorded that its Contents list names four paths
   that do not exist, but left the Fill-In Instructions below telling the reader
   to edit those same four files — and line 29 declares this directory a
   copy-me template, so those instructions are live, not decorative. They are
   now marked not actionable as written, with the six files that are actually
   present named. The instructions and the Contents list are still left as
   published: the verb-directory layout and the file extensions are governed by
   separate open rulings, so recording is right and rewriting would pre-empt
   them.

The published body below the banner remains untouched; both additions sit
inside the banner block.

Verified: asciidoctor renders all three files clean, exit 0, no warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QNjWX2B4FffG7zqMBMui6v
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