docs(work): add story 09 template-snapshot (founder request)

docs/work/_system/_state.json

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "updated_at": "2026-07-12T14:32:07.701Z",
+  "updated_at": "2026-07-12T15:21:32.450Z",
   "epics": {
     "binder-wrap-helper": {
       "status": "done",
@@ -629,6 +629,14 @@
           "ac_completed": 0,
           "depends_on": [],
           "blocks": []
+        },
+        "09-template-snapshot": {
+          "status": "todo",
+          "title": "Snapshot the clean slate as an orphan template branch",
+          "ac_total": 1,
+          "ac_completed": 0,
+          "depends_on": [],
+          "blocks": []
         }
       }
     },
@@ -1009,6 +1017,11 @@
       "story": "08-rewrite-agent-docs",
       "title": "Rewrite CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md for Veect"
     },
+    {
+      "epic": "platform-retrofit",
+      "story": "09-template-snapshot",
+      "title": "Snapshot the clean slate as an orphan template branch"
+    },
     {
       "epic": "walking-skeleton",
       "story": "01-vite-kitchen-fixture",

docs/work/epics/platform-retrofit/09-template-snapshot/_story.md

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+---
+id: 09-template-snapshot
+epic: platform-retrofit
+title: Snapshot the clean slate as an orphan template branch
+type: technical-story
+status: todo
+feature: tooling
+depends-on:
+  [00-baseline-repair, 03-delete-demo-apps-and-features, 04-web-next-shell]
+blocks: []
+created: 2026-07-12T14:55:00Z
+updated: 2026-07-12T15:21:32.164Z
+---
+
+## Goal
+
+An orphan branch `template/clean-slate` exists in this repo holding a curated, product-agnostic snapshot of the post-story-04 tree — a reusable "template-vertical v2" so future projects start from a demo-free, gates-green baseline instead of repeating this epic's retrofit (founder request, 2026-07-12).
+
+## Why
+
+The retrofit surfaced defects that were template bugs, not Veect bugs (broken turbo lint graph via the demo-feature cycle, missing `@vitest/coverage-v8` in 9 packages, an L0 invocation turbo can't parse) — every future project would rediscover them. The post-story-04 tree is the maximally generic moment: demo content gone, auth-only reference feature, web-next a clean shell, all gates green including live lint — and stories 05–08 haven't yet made Veect-specific choices. An orphan branch preserves that state durably in-repo (no remote is configured; pushing it to a standalone template repo is a later founder action).
+
+## Done when
+
+- Branch `template/clean-slate` exists with a single root commit (orphan — no shared history with main) containing the curated tree.
+- Veect-specifics are ABSENT from the snapshot: `docs/product/` (spec bundle + reference prototypes), ADR-027/028/029, the "Veect product domain" section of `docs/glossary.md`, `docs/work/prds/{platform-retrofit,walking-skeleton}.prd.md`, `docs/work/epics/{platform-retrofit,walking-skeleton}/`, `docs/work/archive/` (if it exists by then), and any Veect naming introduced by landed slices (grep `-i veect` on the snapshot must return only this story's provenance note).
+- Generic repairs are PRESENT: coverage provider devDeps, root `test:coverage` script + corrected doc invocations, calibrated coverage excludes, live-lint fixes from story 03's final slice, the web-next shell + boot smoke from story 04, gen anchors + generators intact.
+- Root-only release-please config is kept as the template default, with a note in the snapshot's README that hybrid per-feature versioning is a documented alternative (the pre-retrofit config remains greppable in main's history).
+- A short `TEMPLATE.md` at the snapshot root records: provenance (source repo + main-commit SHA), what was curated out, the baseline defects fixed relative to the original template, and how to start a project from the branch.
+- The snapshot tree passes the full gate set (`pnpm install && pnpm typecheck && pnpm lint && pnpm test && pnpm conformance && pnpm fallow:audit`) when checked out standalone — verified before the branch is declared done.
+- Main is untouched by this story (the orphan branch is the only ref created).
+
+## In scope
+
+- Curating the tree, authoring TEMPLATE.md, creating the orphan branch, standalone gate verification.
+
+## Out of scope
+
+- Pushing to any remote / creating a separate template repository (founder action; no remote configured).
+- Back-porting later Veect fixes to the template branch (one-time snapshot; refresh is a future decision).
+- Renaming the root package (`template-vertical` stays — it IS the template again on this branch).
+
+## Tasks
+
+- [ ] Create orphan branch `template/clean-slate` from the post-story-04 tree: curate out the Veect-specifics listed in Done-when, keep the generic repairs, author `TEMPLATE.md` (provenance, curation list, fixed baseline defects, usage), verify the full gate set passes on a standalone checkout of the branch — one orphan commit; main untouched.

docs/work/epics/platform-retrofit/_epic.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ features:
     core-realtime,
   ]
 created: 2026-07-12T10:22:00Z
-updated: 2026-07-12T11:16:19.512Z
+updated: 2026-07-12T15:21:32.164Z
 ---
 
 ## Goal
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ All other gates (`typecheck`, `test`, `conformance`, `fallow:audit`, `coverage:d
 - [ ] [06 — Archive the shipped template work tree](06-archive-template-work/_story.md)
 - [ ] [07 — Library traces for @xyflow/react and zustand](07-editor-library-traces/_story.md)
 - [ ] [08 — Rewrite CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md for Veect](08-rewrite-agent-docs/_story.md)
+- [ ] [09 — Snapshot the clean slate as an orphan template branch](09-template-snapshot/_story.md) _(founder request 2026-07-12)_
 
 ## Out of scope (from PRD)