Motir

The second home of the rule MOTIR-3175 lands in motir-meta. A standing planning RULE has two homes — the manual planner's packs and SHARED_PLANNING_RULES, the constant the SHIPPED planner is always given — and a rule in one home teaches one planner. This work item carries the wording across. One repo, one PR.

The gap is measured, not assumed

motir-ai/src/llm/planningRulePacks.ts on origin/main @ 21ae185: 159 898 bytes, 523 lines, 33 rule constants. The deferral family is present and healthy — it lives inside DEPENDENCY_GRAPH_IS_THE_BUILD_SEQUENCE, located by bisecting the deferral hits (offsets 22 856–27 267) against the `const NAME = `` declaration offsets, not by guessing from the family's name (the pointer in the corpus for the sweep family is wrong in exactly that way, and a wrong constant in the right file reads as a real absence).

Substring counts over the whole constant, so a zero stands against a populated baseline:

And the surface list is quoted verbatim from the constant: "read them in a card body, in a decision document's section, and in any boundary / 'what this does NOT change' / 'out of scope' block" — a design asset is not among them, exactly as in core.md. The gap is the same gap in both homes.

What to carry, and what NOT to

• Carry the widened SURFACES (a design asset / design-notes.md, and a source comment shipped beside the placeholder it describes) into the existing trigger sentence inside DEPENDENCY_GRAPH_IS_THE_BUILD_SEQUENCE — the constant already has the §-level "when the DEFERRING ARTIFACT IS A DOCUMENT" limb, and this is one clause on the same limb, not a new paragraph.
• Carry the PLACEHOLDER phrasings into the constant's trigger list, beside "stays for now" / "the route stays" / "unchanged", with the discriminating tell (the sentence describes the CURRENT artifact rather than a future decision).
• Carry the apply-across-the-app inverse-enumeration limb to whichever constant owns gate 8's sweep — locate it by probing for its own tells, not by its family name (the sweep family is split across RECONCILE_EXISTING_NOT_DONE_WORK / op-replan and VERIFY_EVERY_PRECONDITION / phase-deepen); bisect the hit's offset against the declaration list and put the clause in the constant that actually carries the neighbouring text.
• Do NOT carry any of the incident narrative: the mirror holds triggers and imperatives, no warrants, no MOTIR- keys, no dates, no notes.html citations — and the guards enforce it. Repo-name genericity is tests/planningRulePacks.test.ts § GENERICITY, per pack; the source-citation ban is tests/treeGeneration.test.ts:615 (plus the per-rule case at :463, which also bans open-core and MOTIR-\d). They are different files — do not cite one for the other.
• Keep the mirror's PACKING. If the two homes disagree about which pack a rule sits in, carry the WORDS and leave the placement alone.

Acceptance criteria

• The widened surfaces and the placeholder trigger phrasings are in DEPENDENCY_GRAPH_IS_THE_BUILD_SEQUENCE, in the constant's own register (imperative, generic, no warrant).
• The inverse-enumeration limb is in the constant that carries the neighbouring sweep text, named in the PR body with the offset/bisect evidence that identified it — a card that names a constant it did not locate is the failure this criterion exists to stop.
• No wording names Motir, its repositories, its brand, a work-item key, a date or a source file — the shipped planner plans other people's products. Both guard suites pass unchanged: tests/planningRulePacks.test.ts and tests/treeGeneration.test.ts.
• The composition still resolves: SHARED_PLANNING_RULES, PLANNING_RULE_PACKS, resolvePlanningRulePacks and legalPlanningRuleCells all build, and the pack tags in CORPUS_ORDER are unchanged.
• The PR body records the BEFORE size (159 898 bytes / 523 lines / 33 constants @ 21ae185) and the after, because the constant is injected into every plan the product generates and its growth is a cost.
• Landed on a branch + PR against motir-ai.

Context refs

• motir-ai/src/llm/planningRulePacks.ts — the mirror; DEPENDENCY_GRAPH_IS_THE_BUILD_SEQUENCE is the deferral family's constant.
• motir-ai/src/llm/treeGeneration.ts — re-exports only; the definition moved. A citation of the old path still resolves, which is how a false absence gets manufactured.
• motir-ai/tests/planningRulePacks.test.ts · motir-ai/tests/treeGeneration.test.ts — the two guard suites, in that order for genericity and source-citations.
• MOTIR-3175 — the motir-meta wording this lifts (blocked_by); write nothing here that re-derives its intent.
• ⚠️ grep finds nothing in treeGeneration.ts (very long lines) — search it with python/node.