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  "title": "Summary",
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    "Next steps"
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  "source": "You saw that a Cogitave repo never has to ask \"what are the rules here?\" — it is\nborn on the paved road with its complete ruleset already inherited.\n\nIn this module, you:\n\n- Learned that a repo inherits along distinct **planes** — the floor, the\n  standards, the scaffold, the lifecycle and Definition of Done, and the identity —\n  each with its own mechanism, stated once in the project baseline.\n- Saw the **floor is inherited for free** and a leaf `AGENTS.md` can only add,\n  never restate or override it.\n- Distinguished **always-on** standards from the **conditional** standards a\n  product type pulls in — for example, a service signing the\n  product-core-baseline contract.\n- Learned that the **scaffold bakes it in from birth**: a repo is copied from\n  `templates/base` plus its per-type template, so the toolchain, quality gate, and\n  CI are present from the first commit.\n- Adopted **discover before you build**: query the patterns catalog, start\n  from the named artifact, and only author new after a recorded \"no fit\" —\n  then contribute it back.\n\nRemember the Day-0 honesty: these mechanisms are authored specs and scaffolds\ntoday; the gates become enforced at cutover. What is real now is the contract.\n\n## Next steps\n\nWhere you go next depends on your path:\n\n- **Contributor onboarding** → @cogitave.learn.work-the-request-lifecycle - walk a\n  change through the 7-stage lifecycle and Definition of Done you met here.\n- **Patterns and golden paths** → @cogitave.learn.use-the-decision-guides - walk a\n  technology-selection decision guide to a justified, standards-backed choice.\n- The **project baseline** is the canonical standard, in the estate's\n  standards repository, for the full inheritance contract and its\n  conformance scorecard.\n- The **patterns catalog** is the golden-paths index, in the same repository,\n  to reach into before generating anything.\n",
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  "durationInMinutes": 3,
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