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living-docs-governance
Keep a long-lived project's documentation from rotting by assigning existing project docs clear constitution, map, status, and history roles, then wiring the active agent harness to those canonical sources. Use in the maintain phase when docs drift from code, agents lose context between sessions, or intentional removals keep being recreated. Prefer adopting the repository's current docs structure over creating new root files. 中文触发：文档治理、活文档、项目状态追踪、防文档漂移、项目地图、健康仪表盘、删除区、长期项目治理
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# Living Docs Governance
Long-lived projects often rot at the documentation layer first: the README describes an old pipeline, architecture notes describe a refactor that never shipped, and every new session re-derives context that should already be available.
**Living Docs Governance** assigns four non-overlapping roles to the project's existing documentation, links those roles from the active agent harness, and defines small update rules that keep the sources useful. The roles matter; the filenames do not.
This is a **maintain-phase** practice. For one-time exploration of an unfamiliar repository, use `codebase-onboarding` first.
## When to Activate
Activate when any of these are true:
- The repository has grown past a few modules and its docs are drifting from the code.
- Agents or teammates repeatedly rediscover the same structure and decisions.