Governance Documentation¶
This directory contains Devonshire Digital's company-level governance documentation: the rules and structures that determine how documents are written, how authority and precedence work, who can decide what, and how risk and open questions are tracked. See docs/company/ for the company's mission, principles, and brand material, and docs/ai/ for how AI agents apply this governance in practice.
Documents¶
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| documentation-taxonomy.md | Defines the document types used across the repository: Policy, Standard, Guide, Template, Record, Specification. |
| document-metadata-standard.md | The required YAML front matter standard for substantive documents, including allowed values for status, type, owner, and scope. |
| authority-and-inheritance.md | The key precedence document: how company, venture, and product-level documents relate, and how conflicts are surfaced and resolved. |
| decision-rights.md | Who (by role) can approve which kinds of decisions, and what an AI agent may never approve independently. |
| document-lifecycle.md | How a document moves from draft to proposed to approved to deprecated/superseded, and who can move it. |
| information-classification.md | The Public / Internal / Confidential / Restricted classification model for handling information. |
| change-management.md | What level of process (simple edit, spec update, venture decision, company ADR, human approval) a given change requires. |
| versioning-and-release-management.md | How documents and specifications are versioned, and how product releases are conceptually recorded. |
| assumptions-register.md | Live register of material working assumptions made in the absence of explicit decisions. |
| open-questions.md | Live register of unresolved, decision-pending questions at the company level. |
| risk-register.md | Initial company-level risk register: risk, category, likelihood, impact, mitigation, owner. |
| repository-boundaries.md | Records the intentionally open decision on whether/how this repository relates to future implementation code. |
| git-and-notion-responsibilities.md | Defines Git as the canonical source of truth and Notion as a management-only tool that does not override it. |
Related¶
- docs/ai/README.md — AI agent instructions built on top of this governance.
- docs/company/README.md — company mission, principles, and brand.
- docs/decisions/ — Architecture Decision Records.
- AGENTS.md — the root AI agent contract for this repository.