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  "title": "Introduction",
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  "headings": [
    "What you will be able to do"
  ],
  "source": "A new repository should never have to ask \"what are the rules here?\". In most\norganisations it does, and every repo answers a little differently — one wires its\nown CI, another skips signed commits, a third invents its own error shape. The\ndrift is the cost.\n\nCogitave removes the question. A new project is **born on the paved road**: the\nfloor applies, the standards apply, the scaffold is already in place, the\nlifecycle is wired, the company identity is embodied, and the patterns catalog\nalready answers most \"how do I do X\" questions. The single document that states\nthis complete inherited ruleset is the\n[project baseline](../../../../standards/docs/standards/project-baseline.md) — the\ninheritance contract. It **references** each source of truth rather than\nrestating it, and where the contract and a linked authority disagree, the\nauthority wins.\n\nThis module is about that inheritance: what a repo gets for free, how the\nscaffold bakes it in from birth, and the one habit that keeps you on the road —\n**discover before you build**.\n\n## What you will be able to do\n\n- Explain how a repo inherits its whole ruleset automatically, instead of\n  re-deciding it.\n- Scaffold a repo so the baseline is present from the first commit.\n- Tell an always-on standard from one a product type pulls in.\n- Find an existing pattern before you generate new code.\n\n> [!IMPORTANT]\n> **Day-0 honesty.** Nothing in the estate has shipped to GitHub yet. The\n> inheritance mechanisms in this module are authored specs and scaffolds; the CI\n> gates, the org ruleset, and the Core scorecard become *enforced* at cutover,\n> not before. What is real **today** is the contract — a repo that follows it is\n> conformant by construction. This module states that plainly rather than\n> implying the gates are already live.\n",
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  "durationInMinutes": 4,
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