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+---
+id: 01-docs-rewrite
+epic: agent-workflow-docs-v1
+title: Surface conformance system across top-level docs
+type: technical-story
+status: in-progress
+feature: docs
+depends-on: []
+blocks: []
+---
+
+## Goal
+Update CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and four guides so agents picking up this
+repo discover and follow the manifest-first workflow by default.
+
+## Done when
+- CLAUDE.md has a "Conformance system" section + manifest-first ordering
+  added to Key Conventions
+- AGENTS.md's per-feature conventions mention the manifest contract
+- adding-a-feature.md updated to the 4-step ordering
+- scaffolding-a-feature.md notes the manifest emission + boot assertion
+- tdd-workflow.md links to the conformance enforcement
+- New conformance-quickref.md exists as a single-page agent reference
+
+## In scope
+Mechanical doc updates pointing at existing artifacts (the design doc, the
+feature-conformance-explainer.html, the actual rules / wrappers / script
+already merged).
+
+## Out of scope
+- Rewriting the existing architecture docs (already in place)
+- Updating per-package AGENTS.md inside packages/*
+
+## Tasks
+- [ ] Epic + story scaffold
+- [ ] CLAUDE.md update
+- [ ] AGENTS.md update
+- [ ] adding-a-feature.md update
+- [ ] scaffolding-a-feature.md update
+- [ ] tdd-workflow.md update
+- [ ] conformance-quickref.md (new)
+- [ ] Final verification + closeout
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+---
+id: agent-workflow-docs-v1
+prd: null
+title: Agent-workflow docs rollout
+type: epic
+status: in-progress
+features: [docs]
+created: 2026-05-13
+---
+
+## Goal
+Surface the conformance-system-v1 mechanics across CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md,
+and the feature-development guides so agents picking up this codebase
+follow the manifest-first workflow by default.
+
+## Why
+The conformance system is the substrate, but agents read the top-level
+docs first. Until the docs say "feature.manifest.ts exists, here's what
+it does, here's how the gates fire," the system stays invisible to
+agents iterating on this repo for the first time.
+
+## In scope
+- CLAUDE.md: add conformance system section + manifest-first ordering
+- AGENTS.md: add manifest convention to per-package conventions
+- docs/guides/adding-a-feature.md: update workflow to manifest → contracts → tests → code
+- docs/guides/scaffolding-a-feature.md: note that generator now emits manifest + boot assertion
+- docs/guides/tdd-workflow.md: link conformance system as the enforcement layer
+- New docs/guides/conformance-quickref.md: ~80-line agent-facing reference
+
+## Out of scope
+- Frontend-conformance docs (next epic)
+- Work-system-v1 docs (those land with the work-system epic)
+- Editing the original conformance design docs (already in place)
+
+## Stories
+- [ ] [01 — Surface conformance system across CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / guides](01-docs-rewrite/_story.md)