Where each old decision went

Before 19 October 2026 the project's rules lived in 43 numbered decisions (D0 to D41, including a variant called D0-b) and in a long instruction file. The owner replaced them with one short charter. This page lists every decision and says what became of it: the rule lives on in a numbered charter clause, it was folded into a broader clause, or it is history only. Nothing was deleted. Every decision keeps its original heading in the live index, so old links still land, and the full original text is preserved unchanged in the archive.

flowchart LR
  old["Old decision<br/>D0 to D42"] --> q{"Does the rule still<br/>bind today?"}
  q -- "Yes, as written" --> kept["Kept<br/>own charter clause"]
  q -- "Yes, as part of a wider rule" --> merged["Merged<br/>into a broader clause"]
  q -- "No: superseded, one-off<br/>or expired" --> retired["Retired<br/>history only, in the archive"]

The three fates. "Retired" applies to rules only. A research mechanism is never retired; see the mechanism board and D22.

How to read the table

• Kept means the decision survives with its meaning and has a home in the charter.
• Merged means its content now lives inside a clause that also covers other decisions.
• Retired means it no longer binds. It was superseded by a later decision, was a one-off order, or had a time limit that has passed. Its text stays in the archive.
• Clause numbers such as 3.6 refer to sections of CHARTER.md. Section 1 is the mission, 2 the products, 3 the technical constraints, 4 the evidence rules, 5 the workflow and 6 the retired list.
• The fate column follows the final DECISIONS.md index adopted with the charter (decision D42). It differs from the working rule map in one place: it files D14 as merged, because its owner boundaries and GitHub authority survive while its council is retired.

The table

Tally

Counting the rows above (excluding the I1 to I5 row and D42): 14 decisions kept, 15 merged and 14 retired, which is 43 decision entries from D0 to D41 including D0-b. This is a count of the table, derived from the live index in DECISIONS.md; it is not a separate record.

Where it stands

Go deeper

• Plain-language guide to the charter: the rules of the project.
• Dated record of every charter change: change log.
• Mechanism statuses and what would reopen a PARKED one: mechanism board.