Design history and rationale for the Adaptive Conformance Specification (ACS). Records why the skill is the way it is for contributors, future maintainers, and dependent skills.
ACS covers observation and conformance only. It does not cover tool capability mapping, team onboarding context, or post-conformance verification.
These are distinct concerns with distinct workflows. Merging them into ACS would make it too large to invoke cleanly and too broad to test precisely. Tool capability mapping is the responsibility of Adaptive Tool Discovery (ATD). Team and project onboarding context is the responsibility of Adaptive Onboarding (AO). Verification of agent understanding is deferred to a future skill. ACS is the foundational layer all three depend on. Its scope must stay narrow enough to be reusable.
MIT across all adaptive-interfaces repos.
Organizations need to be able to use and adapt skills internally without legal friction. MIT is OSI-approved, universally recognized by legal teams, and imposes no obligations on derivative works.
Uses schema = "adaptive-interfaces-manifest-1", defined in
adaptive-interfaces-manifest-1.md,
an adaptation of
SE_MANIFEST.toml.
The adaptive-interfaces manifest borrows the pattern (explicit includes/excludes, declarative intent) without the schema binding.