Add the LogicSRC OpenContext specification

OpenContext is an open specification for durable, portable, permissioned,
provenance-aware context shared between humans and AI agents. It defines how
organizational knowledge is described, authorized, versioned, resolved,
audited, and handed between replaceable workers without losing institutional
state.

Follows the OpenPRD/OpenOntology pattern already in the repo: self-contained
JSON Schemas in @logicsrc/schemas, a reference implementation package, CLI
subcommands, docs, examples, and an OpenPRD record.

Schemas (8, all self-contained so a third party can fetch one file and
validate against it with no further resolution):
  manifest, object, bundle, role, provenance, decision, diagnostic,
  audit-event — registered in @logicsrc/validators and schemas:validate.

Reference implementation (@logicsrc/opencontext):
  loader with upward manifest discovery, the full resolution pipeline,
  authority/supersession, permissions, redaction, lifecycle, provenance,
  deterministic digests, doctor, search, graph, history/diff, guarded writes,
  audit events, and file/http/git/sqlite adapters.

CLI: all 15 specified commands, as a standalone `opencontext` binary and as
`logicsrc context`, sharing one implementation so the two cannot drift.

Design decisions worth noting:

- Supersession is declared, never inferred from version numbers. Inferring it
  would hide the governance failure it represents and make
  multiple-active-versions and duplicate-canonical impossible to detect.

- The bundle digest identifies the resolved context, not the moment it was
  computed, so generated_at/bundle_id/digest/as_of are excluded while objects,
  lifecycle states, exclusions and warnings are covered. That is what lets a
  decision record cite exactly the context that produced it.

- A role's own max_classification beats an inherited one, so a ceiling on a
  shared base role cannot silently cap a role deliberately granted more;
  requesting several roles at once still takes the lowest, so combining roles
  never escalates.

- Scope wildcards match whole dotted segments only. A trailing .* covers a
  subtree; an interior * matches exactly one segment. Substring matching here
  would be an access-control bug.

- --include narrows an existing scope and is applied after it, never merged
  into it, so a request can never widen what a role holds.

Verified: 226 tests across core primitives, permissions/redaction, the
resolution pipeline, security, the published conformance fixtures (13 valid,
35 invalid, 8 resolution scenarios), project behaviour, and the five shipped
examples — which are held to --strict and a 100% health score. Benchmarks meet
every published budget (resolve 1,000 objects in ~33ms against a 2s target).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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---
id: decisions.2026-02-01-postgres
type: decision
layer: L5
title: Use Postgres for Core
authority: historical
owner: cto
status: superseded
version: 1
durability: permanent
classification: internal
canonical_source: true
created: 2026-02-01T00:00:00Z
updated: 2026-02-01T00:00:00Z
decision: Core stores transactional data in a single Postgres instance.
rationale:
- One writable store keeps the consistency story simple.
superseded_by: decisions.2026-08-01-postgres-ha
tags: [datastore]
---
Kept, not deleted. Reading why a decision was originally made is most of the
value of having reversed it.

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---
id: decisions.2026-08-01-postgres-ha
type: decision
layer: L5
title: Move Core to replicated Postgres
authority: approved
owner: cto
status: accepted
version: 2
durability: permanent
classification: internal
canonical_source: true
created: 2026-08-01T00:00:00Z
updated: 2026-08-01T00:00:00Z
decision: Run Core on a primary with a synchronous replica and automated failover.
rationale:
- A single instance made every maintenance window a customer-visible outage.
- Read traffic had outgrown one node.
alternatives:
- option: Shard by tenant
rejected_because: Complexity we cannot staff, for a load we do not have yet.
consequences:
- Writes get slower by the replication round trip. Accepted.
approved_by:
- role: cto
at: 2026-08-01T00:00:00Z
supersedes:
- decisions.2026-02-01-postgres
references: [knowledge.architecture]
tags: [datastore]
---
Supersedes the original single-instance decision. Both stay in the
repository; only this one resolves by default.

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---
id: glossary
type: glossary
layer: L1
title: System terminology
authority: canonical
owner: cto
durability: long-lived
classification: internal
canonical_source: true
updated: 2026-08-01T00:00:00Z
---
- **Edge** — the request-routing tier. Stateless.
- **Core** — the transactional service. Owns the database.
- **Ledger** — append-only financial record. Never updated in place.

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---
id: knowledge.architecture
type: knowledge
layer: L2
title: System architecture
authority: canonical
owner: platform
durability: long-lived
classification: internal
canonical_source: true
updated: 2026-08-01T00:00:00Z
references: [glossary]
tags: [architecture]
---
Edge terminates TLS and routes to Core. Core owns the only writable
database. Ledger is append-only and is never written synchronously from a
request path.
The rule that matters: **nothing except Core writes to the database.** An
agent proposing a direct write from Edge is proposing an outage.

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---
id: mission
type: mission
layer: L0
title: What platform engineering is for
authority: canonical
owner: cto
durability: permanent
classification: internal
canonical_source: true
updated: 2026-08-01T00:00:00Z
---
Make the safe thing the easy thing, so product teams ship without needing to
understand the whole system.

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---
id: policies.change-management
type: policy
layer: L3
title: Change management
authority: canonical
owner: cto
status: approved
durability: long-lived
classification: internal
canonical_source: true
updated: 2026-08-01T00:00:00Z
references: [knowledge.architecture]
tags: [process]
approval:
required: true
roles: [cto]
minimum: 1
approved_by:
- role: cto
at: 2026-08-01T00:00:00Z
---
Every production change needs a reviewed pull request and a rollback plan.
Schema migrations are additive first: add the column, backfill, switch
reads, then drop. Never drop and add in one release.

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---
id: procedures.incident
type: procedure
layer: L4
title: Incident response
authority: approved
owner: platform
status: approved
durability: operational
classification: internal
canonical_source: true
updated: 2026-08-01T00:00:00Z
references: [knowledge.architecture, policies.change-management]
applies_to: [oncall]
---
1. Declare the incident before investigating. A silent incident is a longer one.
2. Stabilise first, diagnose second. Roll back rather than roll forward.
3. Record what you did as you do it — the timeline is the postmortem.
4. Write the decision record before closing the incident.