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the lint contract counts 'previously' as change narration; launch's change-narration gate passes a bare 'previously' as present-tense prose
the lint contract counts 'previously' as change narration; launch's change-narration gate passes a bare 'previously' as present-tense prose
A terminology drift (severity minor) found by the cross-document consistency pass.
- End A:
.abcd/development/brief/05-internals/06-lint.md:10— "change-narration (past-tense drift such as "previously" or "formerly")" - End B:
.abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces/04-launch.md:303— "Bare "now" and bare "previously" are present-tense prose and pass"
The lint contract defines the change narration it lints in docs/ as past-tense drift and gives 'previously' as an example. Launch's change-narration gate, run over the same Markdown under docs/, says a bare 'previously' is present-tense prose and passes. The term means different things in the two chapters, so the same sentence is drift to one check and acceptable to the other.
Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 304.
Grounds
- declined: Closed in the 2026-10-27 triage (dcn-2610271112330536): the two ends do not conflict when read in full. .abcd/docs-lint.json bans the bare word as a blocker and the launch tier is a separate narrower scan of the payload, so a bare 'previously' fails the first before it reaches the second.
Frontmatter
| id | iss-2610262032410731 |
|---|---|
| type | issue |
| lifecycle | wontfix |
| severity | minor |
.abcd/work/issues/wontfix/iss-2610262032410731-the-lint-contract-counts-previously-as.md
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- 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.