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embark treats an unset docs.target as agents_md; configuration says skip is the default
embark treats an unset docs.target as agents_md; configuration says skip is the default
A premise contradiction (severity minor) found by the cross-document consistency pass.
- End A:
.abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces/03-embark.md:131— "agents_mdor no choice saved givesAGENTS.md" - End B:
.abcd/development/brief/05-internals/03-configuration.md:66— ""skip" is the default, so a default install names abcd"
The embark chapter says that, read with setup's reader, a target with no docs.target saved gets the marker block in AGENTS.md. The configuration chapter says skip is the default, so a default install names abcd in no conventions file. The same reader cannot give agents_md for an unset key in one place and skip in the other. Embark would plant abcd's block in a repository that never chose one.
Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 301.
Grounds
- declined: Closed in the 2026-10-27 triage (dcn-2610271112330536) as a duplicate of iss-2610262032225288. Same embark line 131 against the same 'skip is the default' rule, cited here to the configuration chapter instead of ahoy.
Frontmatter
| id | iss-2610262032400782 |
|---|---|
| type | issue |
| lifecycle | wontfix |
| severity | minor |
.abcd/work/issues/wontfix/iss-2610262032400782-embark-treats-an-unset-docs-target-as.md
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mentions2
- 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.
- iss-2610262032225288Ahoy says the docs target defaults to skip, writing no conventions file; embark says no saved choice gives AGENTS.md