docs: commit trailers close the traceability chain
Commits that implement, change, or withdraw a requirement carry a TRACES trailer using the same token and syntax as the code tags, so one grep pattern serves both. This is the last link. Code tags say where a requirement lives; commit trailers say when and why it changed, and `git log --grep=AR-012` then reconstructs a requirement's whole history — which no other artifact provides. A commit serving no requirement omits the trailer: absence is meaningful, and inventing a tag to satisfy the form is how orphan tags get created. Withdrawing a requirement counts as changing it, so the withdrawal stays findable. Also updates the chain diagram, which still referenced the retired @implements tag and the thematic A1..E8 IDs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -94,6 +94,32 @@ is what creates orphan tags.
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When adding a requirement, give it a parent and a register row. When adding code,
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give it a tag.
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### Commits name their requirements too
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Every commit that implements, changes, or withdraws a requirement carries a
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`TRACES:` trailer — the same token and syntax as the code tags, so one grep
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pattern serves both:
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Implements the §3 construction with the six previously-undefined
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parameters pinned, plus a golden fixture the plugin can be written from.
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TRACES: IR-004, IR-005, IR-007, IR-008 | SR-003
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```
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This closes the last link in the chain. Code tags say *where* a requirement
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lives; commit trailers say *when and why it changed* — `git log --grep=AR-012`
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then reconstructs a requirement's entire history, which no other artifact gives
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you.
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- Trailer last, after any `Co-Authored-By`.
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- A commit serving no requirement (formatting, tooling, a typo) simply omits it —
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absence is meaningful, so do not invent a tag to satisfy the form.
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- Withdrawing a requirement is a change to it: name it, so the withdrawal is
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findable later.
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- **Specs are requirements + current-state deltas.** Each requirement carries
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`Current:` and `Gap:` so the document doubles as a work list. Keep that shape
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when editing.
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@@ -334,12 +334,18 @@ unimplemented, and both are worth knowing.
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### The chain
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```
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PR-n project requirement (this document, §1) — why the system exists
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└─ SR-n system requirement (this document, §3) — what spans components
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└─ A1…E8 / §n software requirement (component specs) — what one repo does
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└─ @implements tag (source) — where it actually is
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PR-nnn project requirement (this document, §1) — why the system exists
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└─ SR-nnn system requirement (this document, §3) — what spans components
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└─ component requirement (component registers) — what one repo does
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├─ TRACES tag (source) — where it lives
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└─ TRACES trailer (commit message) — when and why it changed
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```
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The commit trailer is the last link and the only one that carries *history*:
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`git log --grep=AR-012` reconstructs everything that ever happened to a
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requirement, which no other artifact provides. Same token and syntax as the code
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tag, so one grep pattern serves both.
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### ID scheme
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Zero-padded three digits throughout. **IDs are permanent**: a withdrawn
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