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settings: three tiers - wikitool.json (instance), .wikitool-local.json (checkout), secrets by reference incl. 1Password CLI; new command config set (#207)
Every settings field declares its tier; a value in the wrong file is an error naming
file, key and tier. A field naming a program or affecting a gate cannot be declared
instance. Secrets are references only: {"ref": "<name>"} via WIKITOOL_SECRET_<NAME> or
a user-only secrets file, {"ref": "op://..."} via op read (locked 1Password: exit 42).
The preflight records op as an optional tool. doctor gains one line per tier, docs
verify checks a committed wikitool.json for plaintext secrets, CI resolves a real
op:// value through 1password/load-secrets-action. No feature reads its settings
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SnAJ7Z3CpVD3PRbN73QtU2
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# Explanation
Why the stack is built the way it is. These pages are background for humans and agents alike:
read by link or on request, never as instruction, and they carry no normative sentence - a rule
lives in `AGENTS.md` or a `CONTRACT.md`, and a page here only gives its reasons.
- [architecture.md](architecture.md) - what the stack is made of, and how its parts divide the
work
- [telemetry-and-evaluation.md](telemetry-and-evaluation.md) - how the stack observes what an
agent did, and how that record turns into a score
- [pipeline-rationale.md](pipeline-rationale.md) - why the pipeline has four stages
- [ownership-and-templates.md](ownership-and-templates.md) - why a `.template` split exists, and
why an instance comes only from a release
- [language-boundaries.md](language-boundaries.md) - why the control plane is English everywhere
and the KB language is a value
- [why-gates-are-code.md](why-gates-are-code.md) - why the gates are code rather than instruction
- [version-model.md](version-model.md) - why a version number answers a compatibility question
and a migration question separately
- [knowledge-and-commitment.md](knowledge-and-commitment.md) - why commitments live in a task
tracker rather than in `kb/`
- [configuration-tiers.md](configuration-tiers.md) - why settings sit in three tiers, and what
keeping secrets out of the tree does not protect against
- [model-and-effort-selection.md](model-and-effort-selection.md) - which model and effort suit
which kind of session, for the harness that has to choose