Archive policy

This directory holds historical or non-product material that should not appear in the public docs navigation (docs/SUMMARY.md) or mdBook site.

What stays in this repo

PathPurpose
internal-plans/Small set of historical PRDs, porting notes, and funding/governance drafts moved off the repo root
audits/Third-party audit PDFs kept thin in-tree for convenience

Bulk history (external)

Large generated bulk (gap-report mirrors, HTML research scrapes) lives in a separate repository so clones of Crane stay product-focused:

https://github.com/cyotee/crane-archive

Do not re-import those trees into this default branch.

Rules

  1. Product documentation belongs under docs/ with a SUMMARY.md entry — not under archive/.
  2. Prefer short, curated notes over dumping agent session logs.
  3. Funding / token narratives are not part of the framework front door; historical drafts may remain under internal-plans/.