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The spec glossary entry says a spec breaks down into numbered tasks; the vocabulary intent made the step the unit below a spec.
The spec glossary entry says a spec breaks down into numbered tasks; the vocabulary intent made the step the unit below a spec.
A terminology drift (severity minor) found by the cross-document consistency pass.
- End A:
.abcd/development/brief/glossary/core/spec.md:21— "decomposed into numbered tasks" - End B:
.abcd/development/intents/shipped/itd-2609211913453478-one-page-in-the-glossary-maps-abcd-s.md:57— "The unit below a spec is the step, a section, not a record family"
itd-2609211913453478 rules that the unit below a spec is the step, which is a section and not a record family. The step entry also lists 'task' as a forbidden synonym. The spec entry still describes a spec as 'decomposed into numbered tasks', with ids such as spc-3.1, which is the word the ruling replaced. A reader cannot tell from the glossary whether a spec is broken into tasks or into steps.
Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 1019.
Grounds
- declined: Closed in the 2026-10-27 triage (dcn-2610271112330536) as a duplicate of iss-2610262033556324. Same cause, cited against the shipped vocabulary intent's ruling.
Frontmatter
| id | iss-2610262041427822 |
|---|---|
| type | issue |
| lifecycle | wontfix |
| severity | minor |
.abcd/work/issues/wontfix/iss-2610262041427822-the-spec-glossary-entry-says-a-spec.md
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References1
- itd-2609211913453478One page maps the record families, and phase, milestone and roadmap are retiredrelated
mentions3
- 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-2610262033556324The glossary says a spec is broken into ordered tasks with acceptance criteria; the intent chapter's spec stub carries Summary, Footprint and Steps sections and no criteria.
- spc-3lifeboat-coverage-experiment