# Open Decisions and Risks

Do not resolve these through implementation convenience.

## Product and language

- final name and relationship of Chat, Work, and the dominant conversational surface;
- whether Focus becomes a canonical concept or remains design language;
- final Element preview/Lens/Stage lifecycle;
- Atlas name, role, and layer grammar;
- Realm-template boundaries and how intelligence is seeded;
- detailed Compute/Pulse behavior and thresholds.

## Authority, governance, and Records

- production representation of a Record; it is not yet a canonical object by that name;
- authority for collective-learning eligibility, minority views, correction, retention, and withdrawal;
- legal/clinical custodian and participating Institution authority for Inner Clinic;
- source corpus and participant policy for The Nature of Work;
- archive custody, licenses, consent, release, deletion, and editorial authority for 2nd Cavalry/Dragoon Base;
- organizational status and boundaries among Service Alliance, SADUNA, Kiduna Club, and related entities.

## Engineering and delivery

- final production target and parity requirements across Flutter/Flame and web review surfaces;
- production identity, invitation, organization, permission, collaboration, agent, and data contracts;
- service and integration boundaries for calendar, files, knowledge, compute, notifications, treasury, and records;
- offline, synchronization, observability, security, accessibility, and performance requirements;
- migration from deterministic fixtures to authorized data without weakening provenance or consent.

## Immediate risks

- treating beautiful mock interactions as proof of legal or operational authority;
- turning contextual instruments into permanent dashboards;
- exposing private contribution data through collective synthesis;
- flattening Realm differences into color themes;
- implementing normal states before Gate 2B.2 defines essential exceptions and recovery;
- converting legacy repository vocabulary into canonical taxonomy without an approved mapping.

The full contradiction and open-decision sources are in `program-definition/OPEN_DECISIONS.md` and `program-definition/CONTRADICTION_REGISTER.md`.
