Reference

The normative specification and the machinery. This is the Reference quadrant: precise, for looking things up. For the narrative, start with concepts; for setup, the guides.

The standard

• STANDARD.md: the normative specification (RFC 2119 MUST/SHOULD). The thing a project conforms to.
• CONFORMANCE.md: the self-certification checklist for "ASDD compliant (v0.1)".

Standards profiles and quality bars

• standards/spec-driven.md: the spec-driven profile (spec-object intake, the trust membrane, the claim protocol, two-tier contributor identity).
• standards/assure.md: the optional integrity-attestation profile.
• standards/disclosure.md: the disclosure trailer and PR block.
• standards/security.md: the security-lens requirements.
• standards/de-slop.md: the quality bar (§4.3) and the banned tells.
• standards/compliance-map.md: how ASDD maps to OWASP-agentic, NIST, the EU AI Act, ISO 42001.

Agents

The role definitions the operate layer runs. See agents/: runtime (the runtime contract), intake, interaction, triage, support, and the review lenses: code, security, spec, quality, merge, contributor.

The CLI and gates

• cli/README.md: the asdd unified CLI and every deterministic gate (spec-check, openspec-gate, claim-check, merge-eligibility, check-models, connect-check, audit (append / verify / tip / graft / trail / corpus / knowledge as OKGF pages), audit-ship, operate-run, run-agent, dev-council, audit-check, conventions-check, doctor, workflow-lint, asdd-mcp).