1. Introduction
5. User Guide
6. 1. Getting Started
7. 2. Recommended Workflows
8. 3. Parallel Workspaces
9. 4. Working with RFCs
10. 5. Working with ADRs
11. 6. Working with Work Items
12. 7. Conformance Cases
13. 8. Validation & Rendering
15. Specifications
16. 9. RFC-0000: govctl Governance Framework
17. 10. RFC-0001: Lifecycle State Machines
18. 11. RFC-0002: CLI Resource Model and Command Architecture
19. 12. RFC-0003: TUI UX improvements
20. 13. RFC-0004: Concurrent write safety for governance artifacts
21. 14. RFC-0006: Loop Execution Model
22. 15. RFC-0007: TUI v2 read-only cockpit
23. 16. RFC-0008: Conformance Case and Declared Traceability Model
24. 17. RFC-0009: Source Scan Selection and Ignore Semantics
25. 18. RFC-0010: Multi-workspace coordination for parallel agents
27. Decisions
28. 19. ADR-0001: Use TOML for ADRs and Work Items
29. 20. ADR-0002: Fix artifact lifecycle design flaws
30. 21. ADR-0003: Deterministic hash signatures for rendered projections
31. 22. ADR-0004: Adopt Keep a Changelog format for RFC changelogs
32. 23. ADR-0005: CLI output color scheme and formatting
33. 24. ADR-0006: Global dry-run support for content-modifying commands
34. 25. ADR-0007: Ergonomic array field matching for remove and tick commands
35. 26. ADR-0008: Add refs field to RfcSpec for artifact cross-referencing
36. 27. ADR-0009: Configurable source code reference scanning
37. 28. ADR-0010: Validate work item descriptions for placeholder content
38. 29. ADR-0011: Inline reference expansion in rendered content
39. 30. ADR-0012: Prefix-based changelog category parsing
40. 31. ADR-0013: Add category field to acceptance criteria for changelog generation
41. 32. ADR-0014: Release management with releases.toml
42. 33. ADR-0015: Context-aware self-describing CLI for agent discoverability
43. 34. ADR-0016: Allow RFC amendments via versioning during implementation
44. 35. ADR-0017: CLI Command Implementation Details
45. 36. ADR-0018: Global Command Shortcuts vs Strict Resource-First Syntax
46. 37. ADR-0019: Change -n from dry-run to limit for better Unix convention alignment
47. 38. ADR-0020: Configurable work item ID strategies for multi-person collaboration
48. 39. ADR-0021: Resource-scoped render commands for single-item rendering
49. 40. ADR-0022: Add show command for stdout rendering
50. 41. ADR-0023: Organize assets into commands, skills, and agents subdirectories
51. 42. ADR-0024: Writers as skills, reviewers as agents for governance artifacts
52. 43. ADR-0025: Concurrent write safety for agent-driven parallel tasks
53. 44. ADR-0026: Add journal field to WorkItem for execution tracking
54. 45. ADR-0027: Extend Alternative structure with pros, cons, and rejection_reason
55. 46. ADR-0028: Migrate commands to skills format for cross-platform compatibility
56. 47. ADR-0029: Path-based nested field addressing for artifact edits
57. 48. ADR-0030: Parser strategy for path-based field expressions
58. 49. ADR-0031: Unified Artifact Edit Engine with SSOT and Format Adapters
59. 50. ADR-0032: Migration skill for adopting govctl in existing projects
60. 51. ADR-0033: Distribute govctl agent integration as Claude Code plugin
61. 52. ADR-0034: Use TOML as the canonical storage format for all governance artifacts
62. 53. ADR-0035: Decouple skill and agent installation from project initialization
63. 54. ADR-0036: Restructure ADR chosen-option and migration semantics
64. 55. ADR-0037: Canonical edit surface for nested artifact mutation
65. 56. ADR-0038: Keep ADR schema discussion-oriented and avoid broad migration
66. 57. ADR-0039: Use SQLite FTS5 as read-only search index for governance artifacts
67. 58. ADR-0040: Controlled-vocabulary tags for governance artifacts
68. 59. ADR-0041: Self-update and cargo-binstall binary distribution
69. 60. ADR-0042: Enforce ADR writing order with structural gates
70. 61. ADR-0043: Redirect journal entries to local .govctl storage
71. 62. ADR-0044: Unified loop model for single and multi-WI execution
72. 63. ADR-0045: Work item dependency declaration via depends_on field
73. 64. ADR-0046: Use loop-centric execution state storage
74. 65. ADR-0047: Remove journal from work item field surface for loop-centric execution state
75. 66. ADR-0048: Use local artifact catalog for direct lookup
76. 67. ADR-0049: Adopt read-only cockpit model for TUI v2
77. 68. ADR-0050: Preserve direct clause supersession chains
78. 69. ADR-0051: Scope terminal lifecycle states to revision and release boundaries
79. 70. ADR-0052: Assign ADR projection structure to canonical authoring surfaces
80. 71. ADR-0053: Use guarded latest-only undo for local release cuts
81. 72. ADR-0054: Bind RFC version bumps to sealed-version amendments
82. 73. ADR-0055: Separate current show projections from archival rendering
83. 74. ADR-0056: Adopt a canonical-only compatibility boundary
84. 75. ADR-0057: Prefer policy-oriented agent guidance
85. 76. ADR-0058: Use parser-owned CLI introspection
86. 77. ADR-0059: Use project-root selection with layered ignore rules
87. 78. ADR-0060: Build releases with Zig and preserve target aliases
88. 79. ADR-0061: Use one agent integration command with client-specific projections
89. 80. ADR-0062: Branch-versioned governance with a shared coordination registry
90. 81. ADR-0063: Relax ADR alternative thresholds to stop fabricated options
91. 82. ADR-0064: Run guard commands in a non-login shell that inherits the caller environment
92. 83. ADR-0065: Keep the gov-root write lock in workspace-local state