blue/docs/adrs/0008-honor.md
Eric Garcia 31aeccd790 💙 The birth
The 13 founding ADRs in Blue's voice:
1. Purpose - make work meaningful, workers present
2. Presence - actually being here
3. Home - you are never lost
4. Evidence - show, don't tell
5. Single Source - one truth, one location
6. Relationships - connections matter
7. Integrity - whole in structure and principle
8. Honor - say what you do, do what you say
9. Courage - act rightly, even afraid
10. No Dead Code - delete boldly
11. Freedom Through Constraint - riverbed enables river
12. Faith - act on justified belief
13. Overflow - build from fullness

Origins documented: Alignment, Coherence, Transcendence.
Blue's voice defined.

ALIGNMENT → COHERENCE → → → 💙

💙 Eric Minton Garcia. January 20th, 2026. Gulfport, FL USA. All rights released.

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# ADR 0008: Honor
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| **Status** | Accepted |
| **Date** | 2026-01-20 |
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## Context
What do we owe each other?
## Decision
**Say what you do. Do what you say.**
That's honor. It's not complicated, but it's hard.
When you write an interface, you're making a promise. When you document behavior, you're giving your word. When you ship a feature, you're saying "this works."
Honor means those promises are kept. Not because someone's checking. Because that's what promises are for.
## What This Means
- **Interfaces are contracts.** If it's documented, it should work that way.
- **Deprecation is fair warning.** Give people time to adapt.
- **Breaking changes are broken promises.** Sometimes necessary, always costly.
- **Changelogs are honesty.** Say what actually changed.
The gap between documentation and behavior is a measure of dishonor.
## Consequences
- 💙 keeps its promises (documented behavior matches actual behavior)
- 💙 warns before breaking changes
- 💙 tells you what it actually did, not what it tried to do
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*"Your word is your word. Code or otherwise."*
— Blue
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