Work has been starting from a chat message and a plan file, so two people could pick up the same thing and neither could see the other. The tracker is where that is visible. Search before starting, claim before the first edit -- not before the commit, since the point is that the other person can see the work is taken while it is being done. If no issue covers it, open one first: that is what makes the tracker a description of the project rather than a description of the past. The conventions were already right and are written down rather than reinvented -- the Kind/Area/Priority/Platform/Reviewed/Status taxonomy, its exclusive scopes, #73 as the roadmap, real Gitea dependencies for hard blockers, and PR #83's body shape. What #83 also demonstrated is that a Closes list closes nothing reliably: it listed ten and five of them sat open in main for a fortnight. So closing is a step you take and verify, not a keyword you trust. .planning/ stops being a queue and keeps design documents and measured history -- NOTES.md, the audits, the completed plans and the arguments in them. plans/pending/ is gone, because a plan nobody is executing is an issue; everything unimplemented in it is now #85-#91, and each completed plan says which issue carries its remainder. autotag.md is kept as a historical record, marked stale where the scoring overhaul overtook it. The commit grammar is unchanged and is load-bearing for a different reason, so the issue number lives in the branch name and the PR body rather than the commit subject. Refs #92