Initiative: 2026-02 Brainstorm Capture

This initiative preserves and evaluates the brainstorm corpus that was originally captured under tmp/doc_brainstorm/.

Structure

  • brainstorm_index.md: original capture index
  • lineage/: raw session transcripts
  • user_journey/: exploratory journeys from the brainstorm
  • dialectics/: structured trade-off reasoning
  • proposals/: architecture structure and integration proposals

Evaluation Summary

  1. user_journey/ artifacts are valuable but exploratory and remain initiative-scoped.
  2. Versioned architecture restructuring ideas were partially adopted:
    • Adopted: architecture/1.x, architecture/2.x, versioned ADRs, 2.x user journey space
    • Adopted: initiative lane under docs/plans/initiatives/
    • Not adopted: code-level C4 doc lane (04_code) in this repo
  3. spec-kitty-doctrine-integration.md remains a strategic proposal and has not been codified as an ADR yet.
  • High-level evaluation: docs/architecture/README.md (Brainstorm Alignment Outcome, Migration Notes)
  • Canonical 2.x user journeys: docs/plans/user_journey/
  • Canonical decisions: docs/adr/2.x/