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Stacked on #329: merge #329 first. The two land together.

Problem

docs/j5/plans/ and docs/j5/research/ predate working through GitHub issues and pull requests, and have gone stale. Both plans still say status: active: dogfood v0 has five of its six milestones done, and the A2A plan's base describes an upstream pin from two advances ago. The research studies are almost all dated 2026-08-23, and describe T3 Code before V2. What they decided now lives in the product definitions, issues carry the work, and merged PRs and the code are the record. #329's AGENTS.md had to carve out an exception for these directories, and Jackson preferred resolving it the other way (review of #329, 2026-09-29).

What changed

  • Removed docs/j5/plans/ (dogfood-v0, a2a) and docs/j5/research/. Everything stays in git history.
  • Kept and moved: the upstream convergence watchlist is the one document rewritten at every upstream advance, so it isn't really research. It moves to docs/j5/product/upstream-convergence.md as its own file (kind definition). upstream.md, FORK.md and upstream-merge.md link to its new path.
  • docs.md:
    • four kinds: definition, record, runbook, process;
    • plans, research and build status live in issues and PRs;
    • where the build falls short of a definition is a GitHub issue;
    • milestones are GitHub milestones, cited by name.
  • AGENTS.md: back to upstream's plain "do not commit implementation plans, research notes, …" and "do not preserve a second checklist". The exception docs(j5): agents know what J5 owns and stop before changing upstream's product #329 added is removed.
  • References: fixed in the README (reading order and contents), fleet-vision.md, use-cases.md, the dogfood runtime runbook, and upstream.md.
  • The PR pane definition is removed (Jackson, 2026-09-29). It was never built, so J5 doesn't claim it. Its full text is preserved on PR Pane v1: agent-associated PR visibility + "work this PR" nudge #6. The overview lists the pull request view as upstream's, the "status is read" and "never guess" principles use the Fleet page and Crews as their cases, and problems.md points PR management at PR Pane v1: agent-associated PR visibility + "work this PR" nudge #6.
  • Not changed: worklog records keep their old links to these files. Records are never edited after the fact, and the files are in git history.

The build-narrowing table, carried over

Dogfood v0's "what the current build narrows" table was the only record of where today's build falls short of a definition. Every row was checked against j5/main and the open issues:

Upstream impact

None: J5-owned docs, plus the J5-owned AGENTS.md.

Checklist

  • One concern: J5's committed planning and research docs
  • Tests: docs only
  • UI changes: none
  • Upstream-owned files: none touched
  • Upstream product: no change
  • Docs: formatted with vp fmt

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  • Documentation
    • Clarified that plans, research, and build-status tracking belong in GitHub issues and pull requests, rather than the documentation taxonomy.
    • Updated guidance for document types and identifiers, and removed plans and research from the documentation contents.
    • Removed planning and research documents, including prior-art studies and product-comparison reports.
    • Updated references to the upstream convergence watchlist to point to its current product documentation location.
    • Updated merged-PR guidance to avoid maintaining a second checklist.
    • Reclassified the PR pane as an idea that is not yet defined and removed its feature definition.

The two plans and the research studies predate working through GitHub
issues and pull requests, and have gone stale: the definitions carry what
the research decided, and issues carry the work. The upstream convergence
watchlist, the one document kept current at every advance, moves to
product/. docs.md now has four kinds (definition, record, runbook,
process), and AGENTS.md returns to upstream's plain rule on plans.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

J5 guidance no longer treats plans and research as repository document types. Existing plans and research documents are deleted. The upstream convergence watchlist is classified as a definition, and references to it and removed documents are updated. The PR pane definition is deleted, and product documentation no longer presents it as defined.

Changes

J5 documentation taxonomy

Layer / File(s) Summary
Update document-kind guidance
AGENTS.md, docs/j5/README.md, docs/j5/process/docs.md, docs/j5/product/upstream-convergence.md
Guidance removes plans and research as document kinds and directs plans, research, and build status to GitHub issues and pull requests. The upstream convergence watchlist changes from research to definition and drops its as_of field.
Remove plans and research records
docs/j5/plans/*, docs/j5/research/*
The A2A and Dogfood plans, research index, and research documents about Jackson, T3 Code, and Traycer are deleted.
Update document references
FORK.md, docs/j5/process/upstream-merge.md, docs/j5/product/*, docs/j5/runbooks/dogfood-runtime.md
Upstream procedures and product documents point to the watchlist’s product path. References to removed plans and prior-art studies are removed or updated.

PR pane definition removal

Layer / File(s) Summary
Remove PR pane definition and references
docs/j5/product/features/pr-pane.md, docs/j5/product/overview.md, docs/j5/product/principles.md, docs/j5/product/problems.md
The PR pane definition and its acceptance criteria are deleted. The overview no longer describes the pane as defined but unbuilt, and the problems document describes it as an idea that is not yet defined.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Other

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Readers may be unsure whether the PR pane is an approved proposal or a defined product feature. The wording should be clarified; this is a bounded documentation issue and does not block merging.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the primary change: removing committed plans and research in favor of GitHub issues and pull requests.
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The PR pane was never built, so J5 doesn't claim it: the definition's text
moves to issue #6, the overview lists the pull request view as upstream's,
and the principles' cases use the Fleet page and Crews instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Align the row with issue #6’s current status.

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