---
id: RMASTER-WP-0027
type: workplan
title: "Hold the Taxonomy layer declaration through the gate-house vocabulary ruling"
domain: financials
repo: railiance-master
status: finished
owner: claude
topic_slug: layer-vocabulary-ruling
flavor: planning
created: "2026-09-21"
updated: "2026-09-21"
state_hub_workstream_id: "353baba4-02d0-567d-9a0f-0f0419dcd607"
---

# RMASTER-WP-0027 - Hold the Taxonomy layer declaration through the gate-house vocabulary ruling

## Goal

State and hold this repository's position that `layer: Taxonomy` is a value §3
of the NetKingdom security layer model enumerates, through `gate-house`'s
ruling on whether §3's vocabulary is closed, and act on the ruling once it
lands.

Position: `docs/adr/ADR-0010-taxonomy-is-an-enumerated-layer.md`.
Source: `the-custodian/docs/assessments/2026-09-21-layer-declaration-boundaries.md`
(custodian estate sweep), derived from `flex-auth` `FLEX-WP-0030`.
Statute: `net-kingdom/canon/standards/security-layer-model_v0.8.md` §3, §3.1, §11.

## Boundaries

- Do not change the declared value in `INTENT.md` or `layer.yaml` before the
  ruling. The declaration is the evidence of what this repository holds itself
  to be.
- Do not rule on §3, §11 or the vocabulary. That is `gate-house`'s.
- Do not speak for `informed-decision` on `surface`. Different question, other
  owner.
- Do not touch `standard_version` here; B4 is a separate open question.
- Do not modify any repository other than this one.

## T01 - Record the position

```task
id: RMASTER-WP-0027-T01
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "0acb84f8-7342-596c-90ba-6ea595f66d65"
```

Establish from this repository's own documents and history what `Taxonomy`
denotes, why it was chosen over Staff, Engine and Tooling, and whether the term
is used consistently with `gate-house` and `info-tech-canon`. Record the result
as a framework ADR.

**Done when:** an accepted ADR states the position with the canon and estate
citations behind it.

Completed 2026-09-21 as `ADR-0010`. §3 enumerates four layers with `Taxonomy`
as §3.1 in every version v0.1–v0.8; §4 assigns the value to `info-tech-canon`
and `net-kingdom`; §7 and §17 both carry it; `gate-house`'s own `INTENT.md`
uses it. Our casing matches §3's table.

## T02 - Send the position to gate-house

```task
id: RMASTER-WP-0027-T02
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "634385f3-67f7-56fa-b8bb-9d00f99f973b"
```

Send `ADR-0010` to `gate-house` via the State Hub as input to the §3 vocabulary
ruling, noting that the custodian's estate sweep is where this surfaced and
that it was not a finding against this repository.

**Done when:** the message is sent and cites the ADR and the canon sections.

Completed 2026-09-21.

## T03 - Act on the ruling

```task
id: RMASTER-WP-0027-T03
status: done
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "3216fb63-5265-58cb-9ce5-ea7401bbb597"
```

Wait on `gate-house`'s ruling on question 3 of the custodian's table (is §3's
vocabulary closed).

- If the vocabulary is open and `Taxonomy` is declarable — nothing changes
  here. Record the confirmation in `ADR-0010` notes and close.
- If `gate-house` rules the §11 declaration vocabulary closed at three despite
  §3.1 — change the value in `INTENT.md` and `layer.yaml` in one commit,
  keeping the two files equal per `RMASTER-WP-0026-T01`, and amend `ADR-0010`
  by revision rather than by silent edit.

Also pick up questions 1 (precedence), 2 (case sensitivity) and 6 (may a
declaration carry a standard version) if the same ruling settles them; 6 is the
only one that changes a file here, since our two files already agree and our
casing already matches §3.

**Done when:** the ruling has landed and this repository's declaration and ADR
reflect it.

Completed 2026-09-21. `gate-house` ruled in `GH-DEC-2026-017`: the vocabulary
is closed at four tokens and `Taxonomy` is one of them, so the value stands
(first branch, in substance — "closed", but at four, not three). The same
ruling settled questions 1, 2 and 6: `INTENT.md` governs and `layer.yaml` is
now marked `derived: true`, `derived_from: INTENT.md`; comparison folds case,
so nothing is re-spelled; `standard_version` is removed from both files.
`ADR-0010` amended by revision to accepted-2. No checker in this repository
reads the declaration, so none changed. The repository is outside §4 and
declares voluntarily; it was not non-conformant.