This document is a bridge. control-surface readers find here a short explanation of where the methodology layer lives and what it carries. The substance of the method lives upstream in apexSolarKiss/method-ASK.
The methodology repo carries:
- the method itself — pre-architecture moves, execution disciplines, synthesis disciplines, cross-phase workflow shape, surface/voice discipline, adversarial iteration and collaboration
- relative externality and the rule/payload doctrine
- source-of-truth and aging-rate doctrine + cross-project lineage
- source-of-intent recovery, validation loop, and external-handoff classification (observation-level)
- worked-example explanations at method altitude
- the method topology
- the absorption discipline that governs when n=1 patterns earn promotion to method-level doctrine
The methodology repo's docs/method.md is the primary articulation. Standalone doctrine docs have split out as substrate accumulated — see Where to read further below.
apexSolarKiss/control-surface remains the execution-protocol layer. It owns:
AGENTS.md— workflow rules for repo executiontemplates/— downstream starter files (AGENTS, architecture, grounding note, advisor prompt, overlays)prompts/— instantiation prompt, nudge ladder, critique cycleexamples/— workflow-asset notes for each worked-example repodocs/architecture.md— this repo's role-model architecturedocs/project-instantiation-workflow.md— instantiation / bootstrap / operational phases- the architecture-uncertain rules overlay (
templates/overlays/architecture-uncertain-rules.template.md) - legacy Model A artifacts (
control-surface.md, legacy prompts)
The methodology layer and the execution-protocol layer have different aging rates and different audiences. Holding them in one repo would make the meta-repo legible at neither altitude. Keeping the method upstream lets control-surface stay tight as the execution-protocol meta repo while the method evolves at its own cadence.
apexSolarKiss/method-ASK/docs/method.md— the method (current primary articulation)apexSolarKiss/method-ASK/docs/articles.md— canonical article-line index for the workflow / method seriesapexSolarKiss/method-ASK/docs/relative-externality.md— relative externality and the rule/payload doctrineapexSolarKiss/method-ASK/docs/voice-surface-boundary.md— voice/surface discipline across artifact tiersapexSolarKiss/method-ASK/docs/source-of-truth-and-aging-rate.md— source-of-truth split and aging-rate principleapexSolarKiss/method-ASK/docs/source-of-intent.md— source-of-intent recovery, validation loop, and external-handoff classification (observation-level)apexSolarKiss/method-ASK/docs/absorption-discipline.md— when n=1 patterns earn promotion to method-level doctrinedocs/architecture.md— this repo's execution-protocol role-model architecture
This bridge stays compact. If it grows, the upstream method repo is absorbing too little or this repo is absorbing too much.