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Project root starter

Every rootnote in the library: the commercial, privacy, documentation, design and editorial context an agent cannot read from the code.

9 of these have fill-in fields. This pre-built archive ships them unfilled, because it is generated once for everyone. To get copies with your own values already in place — asked once per field, applied across every document that uses it — build this selection yourself.

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# Project root starter

Every rootnote in the library: the commercial, privacy, documentation, design and editorial context an agent cannot read from the code.

Source: https://the-handover.org/packs/project-root-starter
Built: 2026-08-29
Documents: 9
Licence: Handover-1.0 (© Captivated Ltd) — https://the-handover.org/licence

## What this pack assumes

A project an agent will work in. Nothing about language, platform or size. Several documents share fill-in fields, so answering once applies across the set.

## Fill-in placeholders

9 document(s) in this pack contain placeholders that have not been
filled in. They are written as double braces and are safe to leave — but they are
meant to be replaced with values for your project.

Either replace them by hand using the list below, or rebuild this selection at
https://the-handover.org/build, which asks once per field and applies each answer across every
document that uses it.

- docs/business-context.md
    {{legal_entity}} — Legal entity
    {{jurisdiction}} — Primary jurisdiction
    {{default_visibility}} — Default visibility of work
- docs/data-handling-and-privacy.md
    {{jurisdiction}} — Primary jurisdiction
    {{retention_default}} — Default retention
    {{data_residency}} — Data residency requirement
- docs/documentation-standard.md
    {{docs_path}} — Documentation directory
    {{spelling_variant}} — Spelling variant
    {{link_style}} — Link style between documents
- docs/design-system-context.md
    {{tokens_path}} — Design tokens source of truth
    {{accessibility_standard}} — Accessibility standard
- docs/language-editorial-guide.md
    {{spelling_variant}} — Spelling variant
    {{heading_case}} — Heading capitalisation
- docs/accessibility-commitment.md
    {{accessibility_standard}} — Accessibility standard
    {{assistive_tech_support}} — Assistive technology commitment
- docs/multi-language-support.md
    {{source_locale}} — Source locale
    {{supported_locales}} — Supported locales
- docs/working-agreement.md
    {{branch_model}} — Branching model
    {{review_requirement}} — Review requirement
- docs/operational-runbook.md
    {{escalation_path}} — Escalation path
    {{failure_signal}} — How you find out something is wrong

## Contents

### docs/business-context.md

Title: Business context for an agent working on commercial software
Summary: The commercial facts an agent cannot read from a repository, and the decisions that go wrong without them.
Authors: Leon Mallett, Founder of Captivated Ltd (captivated.online)
Source: https://the-handover.org/docs/business-context
Last confirmed working: 2026-08-14
SHA-256: 5e5053a53a22d383d51b62b70a6dcaffc65356a9477122d281c3911a64a0035c

### docs/data-handling-and-privacy.md

Title: Data handling and privacy for an agent working with real data
Summary: What counts as personal data, where it must never end up, and the changes that quietly widen what you hold.
Authors: Leon Mallett, Founder of Captivated Ltd (captivated.online)
Source: https://the-handover.org/docs/data-handling-and-privacy
Last confirmed working: 2026-08-21
SHA-256: 4f0cebbddf9ed095f26dd81cf851666012e89f6949435bade763cdf0f40ff177

### docs/documentation-standard.md

Title: Documentation standard for agent-maintained projects
Summary: A linked set of documents with defined sections and relationships, rather than one long file that narrates the code.
Authors: Leon Mallett, Founder of Captivated Ltd (captivated.online)
Source: https://the-handover.org/docs/documentation-standard
Last confirmed working: 2026-08-25
SHA-256: e8c425c4a5318899c1b26a76a7d1b65386d906a21cf9d25eea8ec28547ad615f

### docs/design-system-context.md

Title: Design system context for an agent building interfaces
Summary: Why an agent drifts a visual language one plausible value at a time, and the rules that stop it.
Authors: Leon Mallett, Founder of Captivated Ltd (captivated.online)
Source: https://the-handover.org/docs/design-system-context
Last confirmed working: 2026-08-15
SHA-256: 33ff04ef8ee28391480a5c7500f68fa95c3b1ab0813de3278c0addabd668e87c

### docs/language-editorial-guide.md

Title: Language and editorial guide for agent-written copy
Summary: Voice, mechanics and error-message rules, and why inconsistent terminology costs more than any single bad sentence.
Authors: Leon Mallett, Founder of Captivated Ltd (captivated.online)
Source: https://the-handover.org/docs/language-editorial-guide
Last confirmed working: 2026-08-15
SHA-256: 99b7a464b4400a03f6b7a7a2826399d97f4b89e53982a6375b1953b852a607b2

### docs/accessibility-commitment.md

Title: Accessibility for an agent building and testing interfaces
Summary: The conformance level, what gets verified and how, and the failures an agent introduces without noticing.
Authors: Leon Mallett, Founder of Captivated Ltd (captivated.online)
Source: https://the-handover.org/docs/accessibility-commitment
Last confirmed working: 2026-08-21
SHA-256: 336bd4cca71d0831ea8b59e24ec0b2eb457f4a52010c869b8b4d24d665c92899

### docs/multi-language-support.md

Title: Multi-language support for an agent writing interface code
Summary: Why concatenating a sentence breaks translation, and the assumptions in code that only hold for one language.
Authors: Leon Mallett, Founder of Captivated Ltd (captivated.online)
Source: https://the-handover.org/docs/multi-language-support
Last confirmed working: 2026-08-21
SHA-256: c5fa2f38b910f4fc86ee3d144e3e5c53d52a25193c76c9cb0edc8ee3f1ad8ff5

### docs/working-agreement.md

Title: Working agreement for an agent in this repository
Summary: What may be run without asking, what must stop first, and how to report what actually happened.
Authors: Leon Mallett, Founder of Captivated Ltd (captivated.online)
Source: https://the-handover.org/docs/working-agreement
Last confirmed working: 2026-08-26
SHA-256: 547496ff31226d04225b371917295b9002f331fc862eb21810607b84a66b1d37

### docs/operational-runbook.md

Title: Operating something that is live, and what an agent may do during an incident
Summary: Stop the bleeding before diagnosing, record while acting, and the autonomy rules that matter most when they are under pressure.
Authors: Leon Mallett, Founder of Captivated Ltd (captivated.online)
Source: https://the-handover.org/docs/operational-runbook
Last confirmed working: 2026-08-26
SHA-256: 15d493f980788eff6069811874e50a6f112e59c479a16b5094aab85b69b0bb9b

## Licence and attribution

Copyright is retained by the authors and Captivated Ltd. You may use these
documents in your own projects — private, public, commercial, client work —
and adapt them to fit. What is reserved is republishing the collection as a
collection: mirrors, or catalogues assembled out of these documents.

Each file carries an attribution header naming its authors, its source and the
date it was last confirmed. Keep it: once a file has been separated from this
pack, that header is the only thing that still credits the person who wrote it.

## Verifying this pack

Each SHA-256 above is of that file exactly as it appears in this archive. Verify one
with `shasum -a 256 <file>`; a file whose hash does not match was modified after
packaging.

Document files are byte-reproducible: the same source document, at the same
confirmation state, always produces the same bytes. The archive as a whole is not,
because this manifest records the build date above — two builds on different days
differ in that line and therefore in the archive, while every document file inside
stays identical. The per-file hashes are the thing to check.