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id: RMGR-ADR-005
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type: architecture-decision-record
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title: "Owner-task interfaces for cross-repository adoption"
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status: accepted
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decided: "2026-08-22"
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deciders: ["Bernd Worsch", "repo-manager"]
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related:
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- RMGR-WP-0010
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- docs/owner-task-interface-contract_v1.md
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- canon-work-record-types
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---
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# ADR-005: Owner-task interfaces for cross-repository adoption
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## Status
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**Accepted** (2026-08-22).
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## Context
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A producer can identify work that belongs in another repository before the
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owner has created a task for it. Sending only a prose request makes the next
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coding agent reconstruct the objective, inputs, constraints, and acceptance
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criteria. Keeping a duplicate waiting task in the producer workplan then makes
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two agents carry one todo.
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The fleet work-record registry is deliberately closed. An interface offer must
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therefore not become a new task-like lifecycle or a second backlog.
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## Decision
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1. A producer may publish an `OwnerTaskInterface`: a versioned, immutable
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proposal containing the complete owner-ready objective, authoritative
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inputs, deliverables, constraints, acceptance criteria, and verification.
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2. The interface is not a work record. It has no assignee or lifecycle status
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and does not replace the target owner's workplan/task/decision.
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3. The target owner records `approved`, `amended`, or `rejected` in its own
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authoritative work record. Approval cites the interface id and exact Git
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revision. An amendment records the delta rather than silently changing the
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imported meaning.
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4. Once the producer publishes and routes a complete interface, its handoff
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task is done. Adoption and implementation are tracked only in the target
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owner's work record; the producer does not retain a duplicate todo.
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5. Dependencies that still block producer-owned implementation remain normal
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producer tasks. The interface pattern is only for work whose implementation
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authority has crossed the repository boundary.
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6. Interfaces contain no credentials, secret values, mutable environment
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state, or copied authority. They reference authoritative contracts and
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evidence by stable path/id and revision.
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## Consequences
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- Owners can approve and use the supplied task specification directly.
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- Later agents do not need to recover intent from messages or re-plan the work.
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- Owner amendments stay explicit and auditable.
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- Work queues contain one implementation todo, in the repository that can
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actually complete it.
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- Messages become routing notifications; they are not the only copy of the
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implementation contract.
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## Rejected alternatives
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- **Duplicate tasks in producer and consumer workplans.** They drift and need
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manual closure coordination.
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- **Prose-only messages.** They are useful routing evidence but too weak to be
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an executable interface.
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- **A new `handoff-task` work-record kind.** The existing task, intake, and
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decision kinds already own lifecycle; adding another would create a parallel
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backlog ontology.
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