member-console/docs/README.md

title, audience, summary

title	audience	summary
Documentation index	developer admin user	Index of member-console documentation, grouped by audience, plus the front-matter convention every doc follows.

Documentation

Every document in this directory carries YAML front matter declaring its audience, so readers can find what's for them and contributors know who they're writing for.

Front-matter convention

Start each doc with a front-matter block:

---
title: "Human-readable title"
audience: [admin, developer]   # one or more of: developer, admin, user (primary first)
summary: "One sentence describing what the doc covers."
---

The three audiences:

• developer — contributing to or understanding the codebase: architecture, design decisions, dev setup, testing, UX research and conventions, the provider-extension contract.
• admin — hosting and operating an instance: installing, configuring an identity provider, building the image, generating secrets, running the service.
• user — the general public or a member using a running service. (None yet — the tag is reserved for member-facing docs.)

List the primary audience first; a doc may name more than one.

For administrators — hosting & operating

• Production Deployment — the sequenced path from a fresh host to a running instance; start here.
• Environment Reference — every configuration key with its default and MC_* override.
• Settings and Configuration — why software uses two words for what a program is told, and how this console applies the rule.
• Hosting member-console — build the image and generate secrets.
• Deployment Architecture — how the console fits alongside a public site and an identity provider.
• Identity Provider Setup — configure an OIDC IdP for login.
• Temporal Authorization Setup — emit the permissions claim Temporal's JWT authorizer expects.
• Plan Management — operator guide to plan ladders and grants.
• Stripe Integration — flags, secrets, webhooks, and purchasability.

For developers — contributing & internals

• Database Management — goose migrations and sqlc.
• Design System — UI conventions.
• Domain Model Cards — the model catalog: one card per domain model with invariants, dimensions, and traps.
• FedWiki Integration — provisioning via the FarmManager API.
• HTMX Setup — HTMX under a strict CSP.
• Identifiers — IDs, names, and keys: which entities carry a key, its grammar and scope, and how seeds and lookups use it.
• Operator Information Architecture — the operator panel's IA contract.
• Operator UX Conventions — form and action conventions.
• First-Contact UX Walk Process — the repeatable method for walking the console as a stranger.
• First-Contact UX Rubric — the instrument that method scores with: the A–G question bank, the walker protocol, and the screen coverage checklist.
• Agent Runner — how an agent from another model family reviews or ideates on the code inside a disposable copy: what contains it, how a task is shaped, and what a finding must carry before it counts.
• Operator UI Accessibility Baseline — what operator-UI changes are diffed against.
• Building an Integration — adding a new integration.
• Testing — the test taxonomy and how to run each kind, plus the UI quality gate: make lint (page-anatomy rules) and make screens (contact sheets at two widths).

For users

No member-facing documentation yet.

Where things are not

Research, drafts, audits, walkthrough evidence, and other records of how a decision was reached are not documentation; they stay in a local notebook that git ignores, so a clone never carries them. When a decision lands, whatever a reader still needs is written into this directory, which holds the result without the history. The rule for every kind of file is in status/MAINTAINING.md.