Hand-Kept Index

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Execution Core

Record: architecture:hand-kept-index

Severity: discouraged

Scope: index

Formed by: adding and removing index entries by hand

Canonical: Ontology

A defect in which an index is written by hand beside what it indexes, so it drifts silently because nothing compares the two.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Destructive Closure and before Closed Vocabulary.

Refactored by

• Generate the Index from the Directory

Severity

• discouraged

Category

• Coordination Surfaces

Detected by

• rules/eslint/closure-barrel-must-be-glob.eslint.rule.ts

Negated by

• Two-Direction Index

Violates

• Two-Direction Index

Linked from

• Coordination Surfaces
• Coordination Surfaces
• Severity levels

in this codebase

• models/coordination.model.md