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itd-117 puts the user-scope rules file at `~/.abcd/rules.json`; the ahoy chapter's user scope is `~/.abcd.noindex/`, and the file lives there

issuewontfixminoriss-2610262033117994

itd-117 puts the user-scope rules file at ~/.abcd/rules.json; the ahoy chapter's user scope is ~/.abcd.noindex/, and the file lives there

A naming conflict (severity minor) found by the cross-document consistency pass.

End A: .abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces/01-ahoy.md:490 — "rules.json the machine's rule conventions, the user layer"
End B: .abcd/development/intents/shipped/itd-117-development-instructions-live-in-the.md:19 — "now live once in ~/.abcd/rules.json and inject into every"

itd-117 says a machine's shared conventions now live once in ~/.abcd/rules.json. The ahoy chapter lists the contents of the one user-scope directory, ~/.abcd.noindex/, including rules.json: the machine's rule conventions, the layer between the bundled domains and each repo's .abcd/rules.json, citing itd-117. That is two names for one user-scope home. A person who writes the file where itd-117 says would write one the loader does not read.

Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 371.

Grounds

declined: Closed in the 2026-10-27 triage (dcn-2610271112330536): a later record already settles which end holds. Both were true when written; the home rename is recorded by itd-2610030720038073 and adr-2610030720195401, so a shipped intent's old spelling is history, not a live contradiction.

Frontmatter

id	iss-2610262033117994
type	issue
lifecycle	wontfix
severity	minor

.abcd/work/issues/wontfix/iss-2610262033117994-itd-117-puts-the-user-scope-rules-file.md
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References1

itd-117A Machine's Shared Conventions Are Declared Once In The User Scope — And Every Managed Repo Inherits Themrelated

mentions3

adr-2610030720195401abcd keeps its own folders out of desktop indexing only by changing those folders, never the computer's search settings
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.
itd-2610030720038073abcd keeps its home folder out of desktop indexing by default