Define the in-file RFC contract in docs/rfc/README.md § The file format:
the header block (`# RFC: <title>` plus a dateless Status enum
cross-checked against the lifecycle folder), the per-lifecycle body
skeleton (a Problem opener everywhere; Proposal/Alternatives considered/
Acceptance criteria/Risks in proposed/; present-tense Decision/
Consequences with proposal-era headings banned in implemented/; the
frozen proposal shape in rejected/), and a mandatory Alternatives
considered section with a date-fenced grandfather comment for pre-format
RFCs whose alternatives are not reconstructible from the record.
Enforce it with a new doc-sync gate, scripts/verify-rfc-format.ts, and
normalize all 112 RFCs to it: ~15 Status-line spellings collapse to the
enum, 29 Context openers become Problem, the 39 legacy-format XXX debt
markers are resolved and banned from reappearing, proposal-era sections
in implemented RFCs are rewritten to shipped reality (including the
web/fs/subagent seam RFCs' migration plans and test checklists, closing
the doc-tiers deferred-work item on the web seam), every RFC gains an
Alternatives considered section or the grandfather comment, and the
bilingual pair is re-mirrored and re-recorded.
Move the generated index tables out of README.md into a fully generated
docs/rfc/INDEX.md — gen-rfc-index now writes the whole file, and
verify-rfc-classification checks its freshness and rejects index-shaped
rows in the curated README — which makes room for the format contract to
live in the README front door instead of a separate FORMAT.md.
The decision record, and the first RFC written in the new format, is
docs/rfc/implemented/process/2026-07-05-uniform-rfc-format.md.
The Decision and Risks paragraphs described the change relative to the patch
that landed it (what was updated together, what another change took first).
An implemented RFC reads as standing truth: the pastes match the pruned maps,
the manifest rows remain because the symbols survive, and the image block's
cache field belongs to the drop-image RFC's record.
The vocabulary maps grow by declaration merging, and the admission policy
stated on TurnEndReasonMap is that a variant lands with its first emitter.
Three declared items had no producer and no consumer:
- CacheHint and the cache?: CacheHint fields on TextBlock/ToolResultBlock:
nothing constructs a block with cache:, and neither adapter reads .cache —
DeepSeek prompt caching is automatic (hints map OUT of responses, never IN).
- MessageSourceMap.agent: zero constructors; the subagent backends send the
parent prompt with no source (logs as user), and the envelope renderer
interpolates source.kind without routing on it.
- TurnTriggerMap.continuation: the loop structurally cannot emit it —
continuation is further steps within a turn, never a new turn — and its only
writer was an llm-replay test fixture that needed any non-message trigger
(now an injection trigger).
Each variant returns the day it gains a real producer, via the same
merge-extensible maps. Docs updated in the same change: the MessageSourceMap
paste in core.md, the TurnTriggerMap paste in session.md (manifest untouched —
both symbols survive), the content-block vocabulary RFC's cache-hints
consequence line, and the RFC moved to implemented/ and amended to shipped
reality (the image block's own cache field had already left with the
drop-image RFC).
Tianyi Cui