Suite Discovery Brief Template

Use this artifact as the final packaged output of the pre-pack discovery workflow. It should be reviewable on its own and end with scaffold-ready inputs.

1. System core summary

• short charter:
• authoritative surfaces actually used:
• observed/runtime surfaces actually used:
• authority rule applied:
• why this system is worth specifying:

2. Normative surface inventory

Use the table shape from templates/NORMATIVE-SURFACE-INVENTORY.md.

3. RFC suite recommendation

• recommended suite size:
• recommended deliverables list:
• why this is the smallest clean suite:
• rejected candidate documents and why they stay dependent, merged, or out of scope:

4. Document boundary table

Use the column order from templates/SUITE-BOUNDARY-DECISION.md.

5. Cross-document rules

• terminology owners:
• cross-document dependency rules:
• section-to-source routing notes:
• suite-wide in-scope topics:
• suite-wide out-of-scope topics:
• open metadata questions that pack generation cannot infer safely:

6. Pack scaffold inputs

Embed the full block from templates/PACK-SCAFFOLD-INPUTS.md as the final section.