Problem

Two CI scripts reference an ADR file path that does not exist in this repo:

• scripts/check-stub-debt.mjs:13 — comment: Reference: ADR 0005 H5 (engineering/decisions/0005-fork-sync-hardening.md)
• scripts/check-obsolescence-audit.mjs:34 — comment: Reference: ADR 0005 H6 (engineering/decisions/0005-fork-sync-hardening.md)
• scripts/check-obsolescence-audit.mjs:357 — error message references engineering/notes/provider-model-obsolescence-audit.md

Neither engineering/decisions/ nor engineering/notes/ exists in the remoteclaw repo. Contributors hitting these gates cannot resolve the referenced documents.

Decision (2026-04-20)

ADRs stay in the private HQ repo. remoteclaw CI scripts drop the path references and keep the rule names only.

Rationale:

• The ADR's audience is fork maintainers (us), not external contributors
• All 5 existing ADRs (0001-0005) live in HQ and there is no established ADR convention in remoteclaw
• CI error messages already carry the enforceable rule (ADR 0005 H5, ADR 0005 H6) by name — that is sufficient for enforcement
• Creating a public ADR convention in remoteclaw just to satisfy stale path comments is overbuilding

This supersedes the original AC of authoring an ADR at the cited path.

Acceptance criteria

• scripts/check-stub-debt.mjs:13 — strip (engineering/decisions/0005-fork-sync-hardening.md) from the comment; keep ADR 0005 H5 rule name
• scripts/check-obsolescence-audit.mjs:34 — strip (engineering/decisions/0005-fork-sync-hardening.md) from the comment; keep ADR 0005 H6 rule name
• scripts/check-obsolescence-audit.mjs:357 — strip , engineering/notes/provider-model-obsolescence-audit.md from the error message output
• scripts/check-stub-debt.mjs:108 — already correct (rule name only, no path); no change
• Verify no other path references to engineering/decisions/ or engineering/notes/ remain in the repo
• CI still passes after the edits

Out of scope

• Establishing any ADR convention in remoteclaw
• Authoring any decision record in this repo
• HQ ADR 0005 maintenance (handled separately — it already exists privately and may need an addendum for meta(fork-sync): hardening architecture epic — prevent #2408-class regressions #2433 Phase 1/2/3 architecture, but that is HQ work)

Cascade impact

• Unblocks ci(fork-sync): extend check-throwing-stub-callers.mjs with : never calibration signal (H7) #2435, ci(fork-sync): fork-boundary mock baseline in check-stub-debt.mjs (H8) #2436, ci(fork-sync): MODULE_ATTESTATIONS manifest for src/agents/* (Option 6) #2437 immediately — none depend on an ADR file being present in this repo
• Rule names referenced in CI output (ADR 0005 H5, H6) remain stable identifiers for future child issues

References

• Epic: meta(fork-sync): hardening architecture epic — prevent #2408-class regressions #2433
• Trigger: fix(agents): restore resolveAgentRuntimeOrThrow body — regression stub crashed every agent dispatch #2408
• Existing infrastructure: chore(ci): add stub debt gate (ADR 0005 H5) #2353 (introduced check-stub-debt.mjs)