Domain Docs

How the engineering skills should consume this repo's domain documentation when exploring the codebase.

Before exploring, read these

• GLOSSARY.md at the repo root, or
• GLOSSARY-MAP.md at the repo root if it exists: it points at one GLOSSARY.md per context. Read each one relevant to the topic.
• docs/adr/: read ADRs that touch the area you're about to work in. In multi-context repos, also check src/<context>/docs/adr/ for context-scoped decisions.

If any of these files don't exist, proceed silently. Don't flag their absence; don't suggest creating them upfront. The /domain-modeling skill (reached via /grill-with-docs and /improve-codebase-architecture) creates them lazily when terms or decisions actually get resolved.

File structure

Single-context repo (most repos):

/├── GLOSSARY.md├── docs/adr/│   ├── 0001-event-sourced-orders.md│   └── 0002-postgres-for-write-model.md└── src/

Multi-context repo (presence of GLOSSARY-MAP.md at the root):

/├── GLOSSARY-MAP.md├── docs/adr/                          ← system-wide decisions└── src/    ├── ordering/    │   ├── GLOSSARY.md    │   └── docs/adr/                  ← context-specific decisions    └── billing/        ├── GLOSSARY.md        └── docs/adr/

Use the glossary's vocabulary

When your output names a domain concept (in an issue title, a refactor proposal, a hypothesis, a test name), use the term as defined in GLOSSARY.md. Don't drift to synonyms the glossary explicitly avoids.

If the concept you need isn't in the glossary yet, that's a signal: either you're inventing language the project doesn't use (reconsider) or there's a real gap (note it for /domain-modeling).

Flag ADR conflicts

If your output contradicts an existing ADR, surface it explicitly rather than silently overriding:

Contradicts ADR-0007 (event-sourced orders), but worth reopening because…