Root Spine Files

Kind: constraint

Layer: Structural Core

Record: architecture:root-spine-files

Severity: mandatory

Scope: root

Canonical: Ontology

A rule or precondition that a governed root carries only its entry document and its accumulators at the root, and every other file sits in a concern folder.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Case Dialect and before Idempotency.

Requires

• Governed Root
• Concern Folder

Reinforces

• Placement Predictability

Enables

• Discoverability

Conflicts with

• Free-Form Folder Level

Violated by

• Loose Root File

Refactored by

• Move the File into Its Concern Folder

Severity

• mandatory

Category

• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming

Linked from

• Quality Attributes
• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming
• Severity levels

in this codebase

• isRootSpine
• checkPlacement