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docs(migration): #144 — Mozilla profiles.ini, and why NOT to restore a snapshot
A real migration (2026-07-16) lost ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini, so
Thunderbird made an empty profile and opened it while 30 GB of mail —
19 GB ImapMail, 64 account prefs — sat in the directory it had stopped
looking at. The fix was eight lines.

MIGRATION.md already warned about this class for Chromium extensions.
The Mozilla case gets its own bullet because it is the inverse failure
and the inverse danger: Chromium silently deletes extension data and
looks minor; Thunderbird loses nothing and looks catastrophic — so the
reflex it provokes, restoring a snapshot over a good profile, is the one
thing that can actually cost you mail. The bullet therefore leads with
`ls`/`du` ("a multi-GB dir = your data is fine"), then gives the working
profiles.ini shape and the Path=/Default= semantics.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 11:41:28 +01:00
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Agent instructions + loop state

Everything an AI agent needs to work on Nomarchy, vendor-neutral and git-tracked. Protocol: LOOP.md. Entry point for every harness: repo-root AGENTS.md.

Instructions (how to work)

File Who writes Role
LOOP.md Human One-iteration protocol (orient → pick → work → verify → commit → record) + the V0V3 ladder
VERIFICATION.md Human (agents propose) Enforcement: preflight, honesty rules, visual protocol, hardware-blocked checks, reporting
DELEGATION.md Human (agents propose) Capability tiers, scout/runner roles, token economy, parallel fan-out
GOALS.md Human (agents propose) Pillars, quality bars, non-goals
CONVENTIONS.md Human (agents propose) How to write code/menu/state while shipping
THEME-DESIGN.md Human (agents propose) Theme/visual design instructions

State (what's happening)

File Who writes Role
BACKLOG.md Both Prioritized queue — only executable work list
JOURNAL.md Agents Append-only iteration log (read last 35 entries; older → JOURNAL-ARCHIVE.md)
MEMORY.md Agents Curated durable gotchas
HARDWARE-QUEUE.md Agents append, human checks On-hardware V3 tests only Bernardo can run

Product / design docs (not a queue)

File Role
../docs/VISION.md v1.0 product themes — agents slice into BACKLOG PROPOSED
../docs/ROADMAP.md Design history + shipped log
../docs/README.md Full docs map

Harness adapters (vendor-specific, thin)

Shared content never lives in an adapter — adapters only register/route into the files above, in whatever format their harness requires.

Path Harness Role
../AGENTS.md any Entry point (CLAUDE.md is a symlink to it)
../.claude/settings.json Claude Code Tool permissions
../.claude/agents/ Claude Code nomarchy-scout / nomarchy-runner role defs (contracts in DELEGATION.md)

Do not put backlog items, vision text, or policy under an adapter directory — it is not shared with other agent runners.

Rules of thumb

  1. Execute from BACKLOG only (NOW → NEXT; never PROPOSED without human triage).
  2. Orient with GOALS + CONVENTIONS + MEMORY + last journal + BACKLOG; when the task is product-shaped, also read the relevant VISION §.
  3. Record lasting design in ROADMAP ✓ when something ships that future humans should know; delete the BACKLOG line.
  4. v1 branch is human-only — never advance from an agent session.