# Roadmap

## Current Phase: The Bedrock Phase

Every sentence accepted during this phase is intended to support everything built above it. The specification leads. Everything else follows.

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## Refinement Objective

Reduce ambiguity without reducing meaning.

Refinement is compression, not expansion. Every refinement should either eliminate ambiguity or strengthen traceability.

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## Refinement Exit Criteria

Refinement is complete when:

1. Every top-level directory has exactly one responsibility.
2. Every canonical term has one definition (in OE-0002).
3. Every definition survives the Enduring Concept test (Law 5).
4. Every example passes the Self-Fading Example principle.
5. Every implementation derives from a specification rather than inventing one.
6. An independent reviewer can reconstruct the architecture without speaking to the project authors.

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## Specification Dependency Tree

```
Charter (OE-0000)
  -> Foundation (OE-0001)
    -> Core Vocabulary (OE-0002)
      -> Engineering Context (OE-0003)
        -> Observation (OE-0004)
          -> Survey (OE-0005)
            -> Understanding (OE-0006)
              -> Verification (OE-0007)
                -> Decisions (OE-0008)
                  -> Stewardship (OE-0009)
                    -> Inheritance (OE-0010)
                      -> Amendment (OE-0011)
```

Nothing later may redefine an earlier layer. Only extend it.

## Change Workflow

```
Observe -> Draft -> Review -> Accept -> Freeze (RC) -> Reference
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Document status lifecycle: Draft -> Proposed -> RC -> Accepted -> Deprecated (defined in OE-0000).

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## Future Phases

- **Implementation Phase** — Interchange formats, context record tooling, presentation layers
- **Integration Phase** — Context record systems for specific engineering domains
- **Community Phase** — Open contributions, discipline-specific extensions

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## Constitutional Governance

OE-0011 (Amendment) defines a two-tier amendment process. Technical content follows the standard change workflow. Governance content (Laws, Editorial Principles, Status Lifecycle) requires additional constraints including independent review. See OE-0011 for details.