Make Today the Primary Operating Surface

Capture

• Current Page Brief;
• one page-turn action;
• timer or bounded execution;
• reflection;
• disposition;
• access to open pages;
• optional First Response utility;
• ability to start a new page within user-selected capacity.

Today is the center of the product.

Why

This decision matters because make Today the Primary Operating Surface constrains the product toward continuity, evidence, and human judgment rather than broad AI helpfulness.

Why-Not

Chat hides state and encourages topic collapse.

Describe the conceptual flow. Do not publish exact card structures or builder instructions before launch.

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Commit

Decision: Today is the center of the product.

The decision becomes a constraint on future product behavior and public positioning.

Public boundary: This ADR publishes the judgment and product boundary while withholding exact prompts, routes, thresholds, schemas, tests, and other reproducible implementation details where applicable.

Confidence: Medium-high for public architecture; implementation details remain private and subject to launch evidence.

Timestamp

2026-07-17