workplans/STATE-WP-0080-register-project-flavor-awareness.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 id: STATE-WP-0080
 type: workplan
-title: "statehub register: stop repo scaffolding, hand off to repo-manager"
+title: "statehub register: project-repository flavor awareness"
 domain: infotech
 repo: state-hub
 status: active
@@ -12,61 +12,57 @@ updated: "2026-08-16"
 parent_project: prj-state-hub-retirement
 parent_workplan: SHR-WP-0001
 related:
-  - RMGR-WP-0004
-  - STATE-WP-0079
   - CFED-WP-0001
   - SHR-WP-0001
 state_hub_workstream_id: "bbfce36a-0b19-462f-af78-167f9eb89b86"
 ---
 
-# statehub register: stop repo scaffolding, hand off to repo-manager
+# statehub register: project-repository flavor awareness
 
 ## Goal
 
-Stop `statehub register` from producing non-conformant repository files, and
-hand repository scaffolding and standards conformance to `repo-manager` — where
-decision `747011c6` places them.
+Make `statehub register` aware of the `prj-` project-repository flavor so that
+scaffolding a project repo produces conformant files instead of files the
+governing standard calls an anti-pattern.
 
-**This workplan does not implement flavor awareness.** That is `RMGR-WP-0004`.
-The state-hub side is a guard, a delegation, and a clean exit.
+This is the residual recorded in `SHR-WP-0001-T01`:
 
-## Why this changed shape
+> Residual tooling gap: `statehub register` still scaffolds `INTENT.md` for
+> ordinary repos — capture under a state-hub child workplan when T05 maps
+> implementation streams (do not invent `INTENT.md` on `prj-` repos).
 
-Drafted 2026-08-16 as a full flavor-awareness implementation inside
-`statehub_register.py`; retargeted the same day after decision `747011c6`:
+It has now been hit twice — once when founding `prj-state-hub-retirement`, and
+again on 2026-08-16 founding `prj-canon-federation`, where the scaffolded
+`INTENT.md` and a generic `PRJ-WP-0001-statehub-bootstrap.md` both had to be
+deleted by hand before the first `fix-consistency` run.
 
-> Hubs are registers: they index and project repository-owned records. They do
-> not scaffold, template, or rewrite repository files. Repo Manager owns
-> repository representation and governed mutation, and therefore owns the
-> standards repositories must comply with.
+## Root cause
 
-Implementing here would have built the capability twice, inside the component
-being retired under `STATE-WP-0079`, and deepened exactly the boundary violation
-the hub refactor exists to remove. The originating residual (`SHR-WP-0001-T01`)
-is unchanged; only its owner is.
+`statehub_register.py` (872 lines) contains **no reference to
+`.repo-classification.yaml`, `category`, or `repo_flavor`**. It has no way to
+distinguish a project repository from a durable product repository, so:
 
-Tasks T05–T08 below are `cancel`led with pointers to their `RMGR-WP-0004`
-successors. They are retained rather than deleted so the handoff is legible.
+- `KEY_CONTEXT_FILES` (`:25`) lists `INTENT.md` as a primary context file;
+- `:248` writes `INTENT.md` unconditionally when absent;
+- `:786`–`:790` treat a missing intent as a hard error, prompting interactively
+  and exiting with `ERROR: Intent is required to create INTENT.md.`;
+- `:269` writes `{WP_PREFIX}-0001-statehub-bootstrap.md` with a prefix defaulted
+  from the repo slug (`:78`, `_default_wp_prefix`), yielding `PRJ-WP-` for every
+  `prj-` repo rather than a project-derived prefix;
+- the generated `.custodian-brief.md` (`:634`) and templates (`:461`, `:509`,
+  `:525`, `:569`) all instruct agents to read `INTENT.md`.
 
-## The defect being contained
+The governing standard is
+`the-custodian/canon/standards/project-repository-flavor_v0.1.md`, which states:
 
-`statehub_register.py` has no reference to `.repo-classification.yaml`,
-`category`, or `repo_flavor` in 872 lines, so it cannot distinguish a project
-repository from a durable product repository. It therefore:
+> Tooling that scaffolds repositories (e.g. `statehub register`) MUST treat
+> `GOAL.md` + `repo_flavor: project` as sufficient purpose documentation for
+> `prj-` repos and MUST NOT require inventing an `INTENT.md` that pretends the
+> project is a permanent product.
 
-- writes `INTENT.md` unconditionally (`:248`) and treats missing intent as a hard
-  error (`:786`–`:790`), though `project-repository-flavor_v0.1` calls shipping
-  both `INTENT.md` and `GOAL.md` an anti-pattern and forbids requiring
-  `INTENT.md` on `prj-` repos;
-- derives the workplan prefix from the slug (`:78`, `_default_wp_prefix`),
-  yielding `PRJ-WP-` for every project repo, so all `prj-` repos collide;
-- writes a generic `{PREFIX}-0001-statehub-bootstrap.md` (`:269`) that competes
-  with the project's real foundation workplan.
+and names shipping both `INTENT.md` and `GOAL.md` an explicit anti-pattern.
 
-Hit twice: `prj-state-hub-retirement` and `prj-canon-federation`, both requiring
-manual deletion after registration.
-
-## Guard against non-conformant scaffolding
+## Detect repository flavor
 
 ```task
 id: STATE-WP-0080-T01
@@ -75,17 +71,15 @@ priority: high
 state_hub_task_id: "6b01a939-7d60-4a0c-90db-af8e31c45359"
 ```
 
-Add a minimal flavor guard to the register path — detect project flavor from
-`.repo-classification.yaml` `category`, `GOAL.md` `repo_flavor`, or the `prj-`
-slug prefix, and on a match **refuse to scaffold**, with a message pointing at
-`repo-manager`, rather than writing files the standard forbids.
+Give the register path a flavor signal. Read `.repo-classification.yaml`
+`category` when present, and `GOAL.md` frontmatter `repo_flavor` as a secondary
+signal; fall back to the `prj-` directory/slug prefix. Surface the result as a
+single value threaded through inference and scaffolding.
 
-Deliberately a refusal, not an implementation: a partial flavor-aware templating
-path here would become a second source of truth competing with `RMGR-WP-0004`.
+Treat classification as authoritative when present and disagreeing with the slug
+prefix, and warn on the mismatch rather than guessing silently.
 
-Durable-repo behaviour is untouched.
-
-## Delegate registration scaffolding
+## Scaffold GOAL.md instead of INTENT.md for project repos
 
 ```task
 id: STATE-WP-0080-T02
@@ -94,14 +88,19 @@ priority: high
 state_hub_task_id: "bd6a9069-b455-4f5e-b1a5-4a87d014e8f6"
 ```
 
-Once `RMGR-WP-0004-T03` lands, route scaffolding through Repo Manager instead of
-refusing, using the dual-run strangler pattern already proven in `RMGR-WP-0002`
-and `RMGR-WP-0003`. Hub-side registration keeps only what a register legitimately
-does: record the repo, its identity, and its host path.
+For project-flavor repos:
 
-Coordinate the cutover point with `RMGR-WP-0004-T05`.
+- do not write `INTENT.md`, and do not prompt for intent (`:786`–`:790`);
+- accept an existing `GOAL.md` as sufficient purpose documentation;
+- when `GOAL.md` is absent, scaffold one from a template carrying the four
+  sections the standard requires — Outcome, Invariants, Success gates, Project
+  retirement — plus the recommended frontmatter (`repo`, `repo_flavor`,
+  `project_status`, `started`, `reviewed`);
+- error only if neither `GOAL.md` nor enough input to generate one exists.
 
-## Correct the inventory disposition
+For all other flavors, behaviour is unchanged.
+
+## Fix workplan prefix inference
 
 ```task
 id: STATE-WP-0080-T03
@@ -110,87 +109,107 @@ priority: medium
 state_hub_task_id: "b141b378-10d0-4865-a67b-159806bcf037"
 ```
 
-Confirm the register/scaffolding capability is dispositioned `move` →
-`repo-manager` in `prj-state-hub-retirement/inventory/`, not `keep`. If it is
-recorded as `keep`, correct it and cite decision `747011c6` — `SHR-INV-0001` is
-the retirement lane's source of truth, and a stale disposition would resurrect
-the boundary violation during cutover.
+`_default_wp_prefix` derives `PRJ-WP-` from any `prj-`-prefixed slug, which is
+wrong for every project repo: the standard requires a prefix derived from the
+project, not the flavor marker (`SHR-WP-` for State Hub Retirement, `CFED-WP-`
+for canon federation).
 
-## Remove the templating path
+For project-flavor repos, strip the `prj-` marker before deriving, and prompt or
+require `--wp-prefix` rather than emitting a flavor-derived default. A prefix
+collision across two `prj-` repos is the failure this prevents.
+
+## Decide the bootstrap workplan for project repos
 
 ```task
 id: STATE-WP-0080-T04
 status: wait
-priority: low
+priority: medium
 state_hub_task_id: "d933ae91-ad40-4a88-9ce3-90872cd1f3d7"
 ```
 
-After delegation is live and `RMGR-WP-0004-T06` compatibility tests pass, delete
-the templating code from `statehub_register.py` — `INTENT.md` generation, the
-`AGENTS.md` / `CLAUDE.md` / `.custodian-brief.md` templates, `project_rules/`,
-and bootstrap-workplan generation.
+`:269` writes a generic `statehub-bootstrap` workplan. For project repos this
+competes with the foundation workplan the project actually needs — in both real
+cases it was deleted immediately.
 
-Sequence behind `STATE-WP-0079`'s strangler so removal lands with the rest of the
-retirement rather than as an isolated breaking change.
+Either skip it for project flavor, or replace it with a foundation-workplan
+template shaped by the standard (confirm conventions, inventory participants,
+map child workplans, define gates). Prefer skipping unless T05's template work
+shows the foundation shape is genuinely reusable.
 
-## Moved: generated templates and briefs
+## Update generated templates and briefs
 
 ```task
 id: STATE-WP-0080-T05
-status: cancel
+status: wait
 priority: medium
 state_hub_task_id: "9eb5ddb5-28d9-4244-8a4f-8fe2a50b5d27"
 ```
 
-Cancelled — moved to **`RMGR-WP-0004-T04`** by decision `747011c6`.
+Make every generated artifact flavor-correct:
 
-Worth carrying forward explicitly: `make update-agent-instructions` runs
-fleet-wide and shares the flavor-blind templates, so it silently re-breaks
-conformant `prj-` repos on every run. That is a larger blast radius than first
-registration, and it must not be lost in the handoff.
+- `KEY_CONTEXT_FILES` (`:25`) — include `GOAL.md`;
+- `.custodian-brief.md` orientation line (`:634`) — `GOAL.md` for project repos;
+- `AGENTS.md` / `CLAUDE.md` / `scripts/project_rules/` templates (`:461`,
+  `:509`, `:525`, `:569`) — session start order `GOAL.md` → `SCOPE.md` →
+  history → active workplans, per the standard's agent conventions;
+- `_ensure_context_files` (`:431`) — do not treat missing `INTENT.md` as a gap
+  on project repos.
 
-## Moved: conformance check
+Confirm `make update-agent-instructions` regenerates conformant files for an
+existing `prj-` repo, not just at first registration.
+
+## Add a conformance check
 
 ```task
 id: STATE-WP-0080-T06
-status: cancel
+status: wait
 priority: low
 state_hub_task_id: "3467ae11-1301-46ab-9e7e-75c4f55f53fe"
 ```
 
-Cancelled — moved to **`RMGR-WP-0004-T02`** by decision `747011c6`.
+The standard ships a conformance checklist that is currently only human-checked.
+Add a consistency check that flags a project-flavor repo which ships `INTENT.md`
+alongside `GOAL.md`, is missing a required file, or uses a flavor-derived
+workplan prefix.
 
-Conformance checking is the clearest case for the new boundary: judging whether a
-repository satisfies its standard is repository representation, not hub
-projection. Repo Manager exposes it as a command and a contract; the hub consumes
-the result rather than computing it.
+Advisory severity is sufficient — this is a convention violation, not data
+corruption. Follow the existing `C-NN` numbering and register it in the
+consistency-check catalog.
 
-## Moved: tests
+## Cover with tests
 
 ```task
 id: STATE-WP-0080-T07
-status: cancel
+status: wait
 priority: medium
 state_hub_task_id: "126ddd07-df9d-4b65-a651-fff0ad2d4074"
 ```
 
-Cancelled — moved to **`RMGR-WP-0004-T06`** by decision `747011c6`.
+Extend `tests/test_statehub_register_cli.py`:
 
-The byte-identical-output regression guard for durable repos stays essential:
-the handoff must not change what ordinary repositories receive.
+- registering a `prj-` repo with `category: project` writes `GOAL.md`, no
+  `INTENT.md`, and no flavor-derived prefix;
+- registering an ordinary product repo is byte-identical to today's output
+  (regression guard — this workplan must not change durable-repo behaviour);
+- classification/slug mismatch warns rather than silently choosing;
+- re-running register on an existing conformant `prj-` repo is idempotent.
 
-## Superseded: carry the fix forward
+## Carry the fix forward past State Hub retirement
 
 ```task
 id: STATE-WP-0080-T08
-status: cancel
+status: wait
 priority: medium
 state_hub_task_id: "405526b7-b133-4746-aab5-6301c1a0b72e"
 ```
 
-Cancelled — superseded by decision `747011c6`, which answered this task's open
-question outright. It asked whether `repo-manager` was close enough to take the
-work; the decision settled that repository standards belong there regardless of
-timing, and `RMGR-WP-0004` now carries the whole implementation.
+State Hub is being retired (`STATE-WP-0079`, `prj-state-hub-retirement`).
+Repository scaffolding and representation are slated to land in `repo-manager`.
 
-Retained as the record of where the retarget originated.
+Record where this flavor logic belongs after retirement and link it to the
+inventory disposition for the register path, so the fix is not stranded in a
+component scheduled for removal. If `repo-manager` is close enough to take it,
+prefer implementing there and leaving `statehub register` with a thin
+flavor-guard rather than a full templating path.
+
+Coordinate through `SHR-WP-0001` rather than duplicating its task list.