Proposals
Finished but unadopted designs for the Commonplace system. A proposal describes a design object — the problem, the option space, the forces, the free choices — without claiming the system works this way or deciding that it should.
This directory is the frontier: every file in it is a live, undecided design, so listing it answers "what is still open" without a filter. Decided proposals are in archive/.
This README is navigation only; it states no rules (ADR 084). What binds a proposal is in two places:
- Design proposal type — what a proposal must be, its lifecycle states, and the procedure for each transition.
kb/reference/COLLECTION.md— where proposals and archived proposals may live.
Multi-repository analysis
- Multi-repository agentic-system analysis — cover systems such as Ars Umbris through one frozen source tree while preserving roles, source IDs and path-only quotations.
Strategy and measurement
- Reusable commitment support across kinds of knowledge work — Commonplace's strategy as a testable conjecture in
configure(G, K_P)form: support built for theory building generalizes to other kinds of knowledge work at lower total cost than per-kind tools; three options for how G comes to exist, and the one comparison that would support or defeat it. - Cost-per-yield records for routine controllers — give each routine search controller a record of yield and cost that states the context regime it ran in, so controllers in unattended pipelines can be compared on cost as well as yield.
Lifecycle at a glance
Workshop (kb/work/, active exploration, closes) → proposal here (finished, undecided, waits) → ADR (decided and implemented) — or retirement, when a later decision forecloses it — or withdrawal, when its problem or trigger lapses with no decision. Partial adoption keeps a proposal here with only its undecided part. Procedures:
- Refresh a proposal's current state
- Extract the adopted part of a proposal
- Retire an artifact — archiving
Decision records: ADR 028 (this directory), ADR 056 (archiving), ADR 084 (where the rules live).
Complete file listing (generated at build time)