# Proposed additions to the openstack-cloud-ops skill (GATED: apply in audit
# Phase 5, reconciled against the RATIFIED GA-R text, not this draft)

Add one section. Keep it under ~35 lines in the skill -- the skill is itself record
surface, and every session pays its length.

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## Record authority and session discipline (GA rulings)

- **`docs/CURRENT-STATE.md` is the ONLY status authority.** Stage, applied-vs-
  authored, gates, plan counts, version pins live THERE and nowhere else. Never
  hand-write a status claim in any other document; point at CURRENT-STATE.md.
  Update it in the same commit as the change that alters status.
- **Plan counts and versions are quoted only from captured command output**
  (a committed plan capture, a `--version` capture) -- never from memory, never
  from another document's prose.
- **Changelogs are session-scoped scratch.** They are consolidated per-stage at
  stage close and are NEVER citable as status or decision authority. If a changelog
  and CURRENT-STATE.md disagree, the changelog is wrong by definition.
- **One ruling per operator exchange.** A decision's ADOPTED status line must quote
  the exact operator utterance that ruled it. Never batch-adopt. Never adopt from
  an inferred or reconstructed ruling -- an operator ruling is a value under hard
  rule 2: if it would be inferred, STOP and ask the A/B question in one line.
- **D-number admission bar:** a D-number requires architectural consequence beyond
  one stage, OR a Roosevelt-delta implication, OR supersession of an existing D.
  Tool options, service settings, plugin lists, and process notes get a changelog
  line or a runbook edit, not a D-number.
- **Session bookends.** OPEN: read CURRENT-STATE.md in full before any other doc.
  CLOSE: write a ledger summary of at most 15 lines; commit and push; a session
  that ends without its bookend is treated as NOT durable by the next session.
- **Reconciliation circuit-breaker.** If you have been reconciling records --
  fixing docs to match docs -- for more than one cycle without touching the actual
  deliverable, STOP and report to the operator. Record-churn presenting as
  progress is this project's known failure mode; escalating it is the correct
  move, not continuing.