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Embark writes the ledger and intent store under a target defaulting to the working directory; capture holds that the root is resolved, never taken to be the working directory
Embark writes the ledger and intent store under a target defaulting to the working directory; capture holds that the root is resolved, never taken to be the working directory
A premise contradiction (severity minor) found by the cross-document consistency pass.
- End A:
.abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces/03-embark.md:47— "takes the lifeboat directory and an optional target, which defaults to the working directory" - End B:
.abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces/06-capture.md:366— "the repository root is resolved from the working directory, never taken to be it"
Embark's unpack takes an optional target that defaults to the working directory and writes the issue ledger, intent store and spec store beneath it. Capture says the repository root is resolved from the working directory and never taken to be it, because taking it verbatim minted a second ledger under a subdirectory, out of reach of every gate that reads the real one. An embark run from a subdirectory of a checkout lays exactly the stray store capture describes as the defect.
Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 270.
Grounds
- declined: Closed in the 2026-10-27 triage (dcn-2610271112330536): the two ends do not conflict when read in full. The two sentences govern different things: capture resolves which ledger a verb addresses, embark takes a path to unpack into, and the CLI defaults it to the working directory by design (filepath.Abs of '.').
Frontmatter
| id | iss-2610262032275161 |
|---|---|
| type | issue |
| lifecycle | wontfix |
| severity | minor |
.abcd/work/issues/wontfix/iss-2610262032275161-embark-writes-the-ledger-and-intent.md
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mentions1
- dcn-26102711123305362026-10-27 — The product thinker accepted on 2026-10-27 the triage of the 1301 records the 2026-10-26 consistency pass filed. The duplicates, the records a later record already settles, the ones that are no contradiction and the one already fixed are closed with each reader's reason. Every other record gets its fix as its remedy, the rulings' accepted answers included, so a drain can take it. The 45 major records left open are deferred past v0.15.1, because the brief's single-home rewrite rewrites or removes most of the passages they quote. The person ruled the major rulings one at a time; the minor rulings take their recommended answers.