Agreed to move the punchlist to its own document, on the series' own
rule rather than preference. FABRIC-1 closed at 4,420 lines because "the
still-open work [was] hard to find" among hundreds of resolved ones;
FABRIC-3.5 stands at 4,452 with 40+ open items in the same shape.
Annotating 25 tasks there, commit by commit, would bury the design record
it exists to be.
The split is strict and stated firmly, because §XXXI found this series'
documents losing track of each other. 3.5 holds the design record and
stays authoritative on conflict; 3.6 holds the work. Rulings are cited in
3.6, never restated, since duplication is how two documents begin to
disagree -- and a task that proves a ruling wrong is recorded as a
finding there and amended here, never silently diverged.
3.6 restores the checkbox convention. §XXXI.2 found the carry-forward
discipline was mechanically auditable through FABRIC-2 and broke at
FABRIC-3, which has no checkboxes, after which "is anything still open"
stopped being a grep and became a reading exercise -- which is how six
design items went quiet without anyone deciding to drop them. The next
document in the series does not repeat the defect the gap analysis found
in it.
§XLI stays in 3.5 as the source 3.6 instantiates: the phase structure,
why Phase 2 sits early, and the three Phase 3 blockers with their
justification. What moved is the checklist, not the argument. 3.6 also
carries an explicit out-of-scope section so deliberately excluded work is
not absorbed by an executing session.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VkM1zHGvBerLF6aqkHPweP
