library

The library is evidence you consult. You add a paper or a link with /abcd:library add, and abcd asks whether it is confidential or public when you did not say. Later you ask it a question, "what do my sources say about pacing?", and every answer cites the item it came from. A confidential item can inform a decision but is never named in anything public.

When to use

For material that comes from outside the project and that a decision may need to cite: a paper, a standard, a vendor's documentation, a page someone sent you.

When NOT to use

For what an agent learned while working ("this test is flaky under load"): that is a memory note. For the project's own decisions: those are records (an ADR, an intent, the decision log).

Examples

• You add a research paper as confidential; an intent's prior-art section can rest on it, and no public page names it.
• You ask the library what it holds on rate limits, and get three cited passages.

Related terms

• memory note: know-how that finds you, where the library is evidence you consult
• record families: the project's own records, which a library item may inform but never replaces