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the program has no name, and a lint keeps it that way

2026-08-11 · settled · DECISIONS.md line 3991

README.md described the work as a program named after its two maintainers, against the standing names-off posture. Rewritten as a description of what the program is. The program is not named, and naming it is reserved.

tests/name_lint.py scans tracked Markdown outside prompts/ and frozen/ for maintainers' personal names, exempting this ledger and anything inside backticks. It exists because the licensing round's residue sweep reported clean while that README line sat in plain sight: the sweep searched for change-memorial phrasing and could not see a standing decision being violated. A decision that is only written down gets re-violated.

The 2026-08-10 name-and-scope entry below keeps its wording. It is a dated record of a decision made before the names-off posture existed, no document depends on it, and the ledger is where history lives — which is why the lint exempts this file rather than this file being rewritten to satisfy the lint. Two passages in SCRUB_REPORT.md that the lint did catch were generalized.

Touches

Nothing named.

Nodes pointing at it

None.