Root Sequence organization defaults

New, returning, or overloaded? Read START-HERE.md for the smallest useful map.

Shared contribution guidance, workflow templates, and repository-stewardship policy for Root Sequence projects.

• DOCUMENTATION_SYSTEM.md defines the shared human/AI context layers and typed relationship graph.
• PROJECT_REGISTRY.yml is the public-safe machine-readable project routing index.
• COGNITIVE_ONRAMPS.md defines the short START-HERE.md layer.

Project Stewardship

PROJECT_STEWARDSHIP.md defines the maintenance model for reducing repository drift and human memory load through conservative automation.

It also defines the maintenance boundary around the Root Sequence RS? thought-routing convention: deterministic validation and index repair are automatable; canonical-home, equivalence, canon, visibility, and publication decisions remain review work.

The intended pattern is:

• automate deterministic maintenance
• surface semantic review work
• treat documentation as part of the dependency graph
• review stale/orphaned material before deletion
• reconcile repositories periodically so small omissions do not accumulate

Workflow template

workflow-templates/repository-coherence.yml is an organization workflow template for repositories that expose maintenance scripts such as:

npm run docs:sync
npm run docs:check
npm run docs:audit

Repositories can adopt the template incrementally. A repository without those scripts simply skips the corresponding maintenance steps.

The longer-term plan is to move reusable maintenance logic into a dedicated cross-project stewardship engine while organization .github repositories remain thin adapters/templates.