pastilhasandClaude Fable 5
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TODO.md had reached 1050 lines and 72 open items across 28 sections, read mostly on a phone. It is now a directory: todo/<theme>/<item>.md, one card per file, with frontmatter carrying id, status, created date and order, and the prose body copied across verbatim. TODO.md becomes a generated index (bun run todo:index). Dates: where an item's prose stated one it is used; otherwise its old section's; otherwise 2026-08-20, floored at the day before the split rather than invented. date_source records which. Shaped for a two-way Kanban board, filed as todo/tooling — a card is a file, id is the identity, frontmatter is the machine's half and the body is the owner's. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# `todo/` — the format
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One item per file. A file is a card. That is the whole idea, and everything below follows from it.
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It replaced a single 1,050-line `TODO.md` on 2026-08-21, which had reached 72 open items across 28
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sections and was read mostly on a phone. The split was mechanical — no prose was rewritten.
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## Layout
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```
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todo/
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├── README.md # this file
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├── <theme>/
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│ ├── _index.md # the theme itself: display name, and any prose that belongs to the whole group
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│ └── <item>.md # one item
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```
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The theme is the directory. `_index.md` carries the theme's display heading, so a theme is
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self-describing and nothing has to hold a slug→name map. `TODO.md` at the repository root is the
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generated index over all of it — `bun run todo:index`.
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## An item
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```markdown
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---
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id: fleet/an-orchestrator-that-acts-on-every-server-at
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title: 'An orchestrator that acts on every server at once'
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theme: fleet
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status: open
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created: 2026-08-21
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date_source: stated
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order: 1
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---
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**An orchestrator that acts on every server at once** — pull and update every platform, restart a
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process everywhere, report which host is behind…
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```
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- **`id`** — `<theme>/<slug>`, and it is the filename. Stable: rename the title freely, leave the id
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alone. Anything pointing at an item points at this.
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- **`status`** — `open` or `done` today. The board will want more (`doing`, `blocked`); adding one is a
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new value here, not a new file or a new directory.
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- **`created`** — the date the item was raised. **`date_source`** says how much to trust it:
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`stated` (the prose named a date — true), `section` (inherited from its old section heading — close),
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`assumed` (unknown, floored at 2026-08-20, the day before the split — a bounded "before today"
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rather than an invented day).
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- **`order`** — position within the theme, preserved from the original list. What a board reorders.
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- **The body is prose, and it is the point.** These entries carry the reasoning, what was verified
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versus assumed, and what was already tried. An item stripped to a title loses the thing that made
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this list worth keeping.
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## Two-way sync — the contract for the Kanban board
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A board that reads this tree and writes back to it is a wanted feature
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(`todo/prompt-library/`… see `todo/tooling/`). What it may rely on:
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- **A card is a file.** Creating a card creates a file; moving a card between columns rewrites one
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frontmatter field; deleting a card deletes a file. Every board action is a small, reviewable git diff.
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- **`id` is the identity, not the title and not the line number.** Renaming or rewording never orphans a
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card.
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- **Frontmatter is the machine's half, the body is the human's half.** A board may rewrite frontmatter
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freely. It must not reformat a body it did not change — the prose is hand-written and a normalising
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pass would produce a diff nobody can read.
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- **`TODO.md` is generated output.** A board must never write to it; it regenerates from the tree.
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- **Git is the sync log.** No lock file and no sidecar state: the file on disk is the truth, and two
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writers are resolved the way every other conflict in this repository is.
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