Concepts

Every idea in WUWEI earns its place by preventing a mistake or saving your attention. This map says what each one is, why it is there, and where it lives.

Concept	Why it is there	Where it lives
Auditor, not a gate	Process the model cannot see the point of gets routed around; evidence cannot be	the whole design
Plan passes and checkpoints	Days change; a plan you can redo any time stays true	/wuwei-run, /wuwei-close, .wuwei/plan.json
WSJF and RICE ranking	The most valuable work first, with evidence for every score	wuwei plan add
The team and its charters	Independent roles catch what one agent misses	charters/, agents/
Models and effort	Each seat runs on the model and effort its work needs, from one table you can override	charters/planner.md, the Agent call
The evidence contract	"Done" means something checkable, the same for every PR	wuwei status, wuwei evidence
Attested verdicts	A review counts only if a reviewer wrote it and nobody edited it	SubagentStop, the ledger
Breaking changes	Clients you break should hear it from you first, and you decide whether it ships	Announcement:, the breaking: question
The doors	Some mistakes cannot be taken back	PreToolUse, harness rules, the code host
Enforcement levels	Honesty about what is prevented and what is only detected	wuwei doctor
Reversibility and confidence	Ask only when a mistake would be costly and you are unsure	_common.md
Owner question classes	Your attention is the scarcest resource	the owner-question door
Exceptions that expire	Accepting a gap is a debt, not a pardon	rulings, follow-up items
ADRs from one-way answers	Why a hard decision was taken outlives the session	docs/adr/ in each repo
Hooks as the sensei	Guidance at the moment beats rules nobody reads	hooks/hooks.json
Harness permissions	One place for who may call which tool	.claude/settings.json
Andon	Stop one broken stream, not the whole team	wuwei andon
The learning loop	Mistakes become standards; useless rules go	steward, .wuwei/standards.md
Error budget	Autonomy is earned by results and lost by escapes	evidence tiers
Calibration and gate yield	Know which reviews pay and which reviewers are overconfident	the report
Skills and memory proposals	Stop re-learning the same repository facts	retro proposals
Report, telemetry, DORA	See what happened without asking	wuwei report
The ledger	A tamper-evident record of what was decided	.wuwei/ledger/
Replay cases	The auditor itself is held to its past answers	tests/replay/
Many repositories	One process, the shape of each repository	one workspace
Running on Codex	One process whichever agent does the work	wuwei init --codex, .codex/
Cloud sessions	A fresh clone starts where the last session stopped	wuwei init --cloud, wuwei sync, the wuwei/state branch
Work in progress	Nothing waits on your nudge: PRs and replies keep moving	/wuwei-watch, wuwei owe