Development record

itd-3 rejects a user-level rules.json outright; itd-2610030720038073 records that every managed project's block names the home's top-level rules.json

issuewontfixminoriss-2610262045266820

A premise contradiction (severity minor) found by the cross-document consistency pass.

End A: .abcd/development/intents/shipped/itd-3-modular-rules-loader.md:41 — "Global ~/.abcd/rules.json — explicitly rejected."
End B: .abcd/development/intents/shipped/itd-2610030720038073-abcd-keeps-its-home-folder-out-of.md:95 — "each managed project's block names the home's top-level rules.json"

itd-3 lists a global ~/.abcd/rules.json as explicitly rejected and the override as per-repo only. itd-2610030720038073, answering from the code, says each managed project's block names the home's top-level rules.json, which is that same personal cross-repo layer. The loader either has a machine layer or it does not; the two shipped records say opposite things and neither marks the other as superseded.

Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 1274.

Grounds

declined: Closed in the 2026-10-27 triage (dcn-2610271112330536): a later record already settles which end holds. itd-3's rejection was true in its day; itd-117 reversed it and the loader now composes bundled, user and repo layers (internal/core/rules/layerfile.go), as the later home-folder record also states.

Frontmatter

id	iss-2610262045266820
type	issue
lifecycle	wontfix
severity	minor

.abcd/work/issues/wontfix/iss-2610262045266820-itd-3-rejects-a-user-level-rules-json.md
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References2

itd-3abcd Loads Its Own Rules On Demandrelated
itd-2610030720038073abcd keeps its home folder out of desktop indexing by defaultrelated

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-2610262036437864The rules-loader intent rejects a user-level rules.json and keeps rules per repository; the guard chapter counts a rules.json in abcd's home folder as part of the user layer.
itd-117A Machine's Shared Conventions Are Declared Once In The User Scope — And Every Managed Repo Inherits Them