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docs(architecture): ADR-0006 -- engine/hierarchy (current rank as capital + title)
Second of three interlocking engine ADRs (ADR-0005 heritage, ADR-0006 hierarchy, ADR-0007 virtue pending). Heritage names what the persona was formed into (the past field); hierarchy names what the persona currently holds (the present field). The wiring sentence: "Personas carry heritage and hold hierarchy. Where the two meet under pressure, virtue fires." Hierarchy ships second because: - It is downstream of heritage: capital positions consume heritage's piece_*_capital.md files directly - It is upstream of virtue: virtue fires on heritage x hierarchy collisions and cannot be designed without both inputs locked Decisions locked in this ADR: 1. Anchor flavour: position-anchor (position_hierarchy.md, HOLD) Hierarchy is held, not run; the room reads it on entry. 2. Two position families: Capital positions (6): dominant, established, ascending, declining, excluded, misplaced -- emergent rank, field-relative Title positions (3): superior, peer, subordinate -- assigned rank, field-agnostic at the grammar level 3. Composition: hierarchy = capital_position(s) + title_position(s) A persona may hold multiple of each simultaneously. Tension is inherent (ascending capital + subordinate title = junior with the room's attention; senior with no informal weight). 4. Invocation mode: global Every persona is ranked in every scene. The specific positions fired are field-relative; the invocation is not. 5. Sub-engine structure: 12 files total Anchor (position): 1 HOLD Capital positions: 6 HOLD Title positions: 3 HOLD Meta: 2 (README + REFERENCES) No processes (rank is held; firing is stress + virtue territory). No pieces (heritage owns the capital typology; hierarchy consumes). Alternatives considered and rejected (full reasoning in the ADR): - process_ranking.md anchor (rank is held, not run) - One file per (capital, field) pair (combinatorial explosion) - Single class of position (loses the emergent/assigned distinction) - Title positions as references to engine/org's CVF positions (CVF describes org TYPE, not persona STANDING in org) - process_promotion.md / process_demotion.md (those are stress and virtue territory) - position_neutral.md (every persona has SOME capital configuration; "neutral" in one field is excluded or misplaced in another) - Skipping the capital/title split (informal rank is real and reading-dominant in many scenes) Cross-engine references documented: - engine/heritage/: capital positions consume the four piece_*_capital files directly - engine/org/: title positions reference process_operate_org when the structure is an organisation - engine/group/: hierarchy biases forming-stage role assignment - engine/wow/: a persona's formation biases which capital positions are most accessible in a given field - engine/stress/: rank-vs-expectation gap triggers stress responses Open follow-ups (sequenced): 1. Engine implementation PR (~12 files, culture/engine branch) Blocked on heritage landing on main so capital piece references resolve. 2. instructions.md registry entry (hierarchy as global) 3. ADR-0007 + engine/virtue/ (composes heritage + hierarchy) 4. Per-persona hierarchy backfill alongside heritage backfill 5. Field registry (deferred until a consumer demands it) 6. Validator for hierarchy shape (optional governance after per-persona backfill) Files: docs/architecture/adrs/0006-engine-hierarchy-bourdieu.md NEW docs/architecture/README.md +1 line Refs: #575 (hierarchy proposal), #568 (virtue, next), #571 (heritage), ADR-0004 (engine anchor pattern), ADR-0005 (heritage)
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| [0003](adrs/0003-multi-variety-language-files.md) | Multi-variety language files and personas | Proposed |
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| [0004](adrs/0004-engine-anchor-as-instructions-entry.md) | Engine anchor files as instructions spine | Proposed |
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| [0005](adrs/0005-engine-heritage-bourdieu.md) | engine/heritage -- Bourdieu's habitus, capital, and hysteresis | Proposed |
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| [0006](adrs/0006-engine-hierarchy-bourdieu.md) | engine/hierarchy -- current rank as capital positions plus structural role | Proposed |
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ADRs follow the convention `NNNN-kebab-case.md`, numbered in
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acceptance order. An accepted ADR is immutable; a new decision that

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