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


Status	Accepted
Date	2026-01-20

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

"Your word is your word. Code or otherwise."

— Blue

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