Reduce the active decision corpus without erasing history that can still guide work. Judge every note semantically; word count and age are discovery aids, never archive criteria.

Read the repository's Agent Note rules, archive instructions, and the applicable lifecycle instructions before classifying. Use current skills, docs, newer notes, and inbound links to establish whether a rationale still owns or constrains anything.

Every new note triggers a scoped audit of active notes covering the same decision or mechanism. Classify each full or partial supersession while writing the new note: archive qualifying implemented triplets in the same PR, retain and cross-link partial supersessions, reject obsolete proposals, and delete rejected notes that no longer prevent a plausible mistake. Apply the consolidation rule when the new owner absorbs every unique proposition, deleting the absorbed triplet whole; do not defer a known match.

Do not archive toward a quota. Inspect every note in scope, classify analogous groups under one principle, and record genuinely borderline decisions.

When inbound-link repair edited an active bilingual doc, hand the counterpart update to so both sides stay in sync before the pairing gate.

After the triplet is sealed, never edit, move, translate, reformat, or delete it. Archived notes remain valid inbound-link targets but are historical snapshots, not authority for current behavior.

Run the repository's archive seal gate in write mode first: it proves every existing seal still matches, then appends only the newly archived artifacts. Run the gate again normally, then the documentation gates and . Report active implemented notes kept, implemented notes archived, rejected notes kept/deleted, proposed notes rejected if any, and every genuinely borderline case with its chosen outcome.