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Agentic-Bridle/docs/adr/0006-full-document-rule-delivery.md
wtclaude 06917d43e2 docs: add phased implementation plan and architecture decision records
Turns the design doc into an ordered, dependency-correct build plan (phases
0-9) with an exit criterion per phase, and records the twelve architectural
decisions it rests on as ADRs.

Decisions: single Rust binary with routed compose services; Streamable HTTP
only; per-agent bearer tokens with clientInfo as a display hint only; SQLite;
get_rules delivered via session gating; full-document rule delivery; project_id
from day one; enforcement tier scoped to Bridle-mediated actions; stable tool
list on upstream failure; OpenAI-compatible embeddings with model/dim guarding;
pattern RAG gated behind a spike; CLAUDE.md + AGENTS.md as v1 renderer targets.

Deviates from the design doc's original 1-8 ordering by moving the audit log
and multi-project schema into phase 1, building the admin API incrementally
rather than all at the Web Panel phase, downgrading vendor guardrail sourcing
to manual-first, and gating the pattern-example RAG behind a validation spike.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019RZerbsHGF9Ka3bKhCjJ9m
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# ADR-0006: Full-document rule delivery, no dynamic subsetting
**Status:** Accepted (2026-08-08) — carried forward from the original design doc
## Context
An obvious token-saving optimization is to send an agent only the slice of the ruleset relevant to
its current task or file path. This was considered and rejected during design.
## Decision
The rendered rules document is **always sent in full**. No path-based or task-based filtering of
what an agent receives.
How much leash a given model needs to reliably stay on task is a **per-model concern handled by the
renderer** (ADR-0012), not a universal token-saving optimization applied to everyone. Some
models need a fuller, more complete document than others.
## Consequences
- Predictable behavior: an agent's context either contains the whole policy or the session is
gated (ADR-0005).
- Higher token cost per session, accepted deliberately.
- Renderer verbosity becomes the tuning knob for per-model needs.
- Note that this reasoning applies to **rules**, not to **tools**. Tool schemas are a separate
context budget and *are* filtered per agent, driven by the permissions table (see phase 3).