docs(decision-records): hold records firm, not frozen - #8
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Accepted records were described as immutable everywhere. The governance middle ground now is: changing course still requires supersession, never a rewrite — but decider-approved maintenance edits (clarity, staleness, cross-record consistency, typography) are allowed. Reworded in SKILL.md, the generated INDEX.md header (the one spot the tooling actively reasserts the doctrine on every build), and the installed templates (AGENTS, README, both record templates). Counter-ID immutability and the no-draft-references breach check are untouched — both remain true under the new stance.
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Replaces the blanket "immutable once accepted" doctrine with the governance middle ground adopted in skymavis/lanh-ai: held firm once accepted — changing course requires supersession, never a rewrite; decider-approved maintenance edits (clarity, staleness, cross-record consistency, typography) are allowed. Firm, not frozen.
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decisions.pyINDEX header — the one place the tooling actively reasserts the old doctrine: everybuildwrites it into the target repo's INDEX.md, so without this change the next rebuild silently reverts the stance.Deliberately untouched: counter-ID immutability (
decisions.py— still true; IDs never change) andvalidate_no_breach(accepted records still must not reference drafts — the forward-reference rule is unaffected by the new stance).Docs-only; 66 tests pass.