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Adds LAUNCHPAD.md — a fork-specific orientation file naming where our knowledge about deploying and operating this Buzz environment lives: launchpad-26/handbook, built through #4 and #6#11.

Why a new file rather than a section in AGENTS.md

CLAUDE.md is a symlink to AGENTS.md, which is maintained by block/buzz and changed as recently as upstream PR block#5110. Editing it would create a merge conflict on every sync from now on. A file upstream will never touch costs nothing to carry.

What it records

Two things a future reader would otherwise have to rediscover:

Why the handbook is a separate repository and stays one. It synthesises five repositories and links each claim back to a pinned commit, so it does not belong inside any one of them. Vendoring it here as a submodule or subtree would mirror content instead of synthesising it — the exact fragmentation the handbook exists to solve — and would break provenance, which assumes the repositories move independently. That temptation will come up again; the file says no and says why.

How the two repos are connected:

Layer How
Data Handbook pages pin commits from this repo; a scheduled job flags a page when a cited file moves
Tracking Both repos are now linked to org project #20 (buzz)
Issues Handbook PRs close issues here with Closes launchpad-26/buzz#<n>
Code Not connected, deliberately

One convention it sets

New handbook issues are filed in launchpad-26/handbook, which is private. This repository is public, and once content work starts, issue discussion will draw on private sources.

Not included

No credentials, hostnames, keys or rosters — scanned before commit. Nothing here is not already public in #6#11.

Adds LAUNCHPAD.md, a fork-specific orientation file naming where our
knowledge about deploying and operating this Buzz environment lives:
launchpad-26/handbook, built through issues #4 and #6-#11.

It is a NEW file rather than a section in AGENTS.md deliberately. AGENTS.md
is maintained by block/buzz and changed as recently as upstream block#5110, so
editing it would create a merge conflict on every sync from now on. A file
upstream will never touch costs nothing to carry.

Records the two things a future reader would otherwise have to rediscover:

Why the handbook is a separate repository and stays one. It synthesises
five repositories and links each claim back to a pinned commit, so it does
not belong inside any one of them. Vendoring it here as a submodule or
subtree would mirror content instead of synthesising it - the exact
fragmentation the handbook exists to solve - and would break provenance,
which assumes the repositories move independently.

How the two are connected: through pinned commits and a staleness job at
the data layer, through org project #20 at the tracking layer, and through
cross-repo closing keywords for issues. Not at the code layer.

Also states that new handbook issues belong in the handbook repository,
which is private, because this repository is public and content discussion
draws on private sources.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Serina Mcfall <serina.mcfall@gmail.com>

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tucktuck101 merged commit a629c63 into launchpad Aug 11, 2026
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serina-mcfall deleted the docs/link-handbook branch August 31, 2026 20:18
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