Current Engineering Rules

Runtime Rules

• Treat alpha3 as the only active workspace lane.
• Treat archived lanes and archived docs as reference material, not active behavior.
• Keep portal cards manifest-driven.
• Keep workspace shell behavior owned by the alpha3 host and base template.

Documentation Rules

• One current document per topic.
• Archive old plans instead of leaving multiple competing versions live.
• Document active code paths and active scripts only.
• Prefer stable concepts over temporary execution notes in the active tree.

Configuration Rules

• Prefer named config and manifest values over scattered policy literals.
• Centralize storage-key policy instead of inventing new key strings ad hoc.
• Centralize deployment/runtime timing policy instead of scattering timers and limits.
• Centralize service topology and port assumptions instead of repeating them across scripts and services.

Refactor Direction

Current cleanup targets include:

• deployment/topology config centralization
• portal keyspace centralization
• portal-card manifest presets
• removal of duplicated session-validation policy
• extraction of statistics domain catalogs and row-limit policy