From 6587363e2ed57aa50ee68d07686dff34ad15a3d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Meta Vens Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:44:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Record the design-text and product-text ruling Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 --- docs/item-provenance-target.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/item-provenance-target.md b/docs/item-provenance-target.md index fd698ef5c..1916cc011 100644 --- a/docs/item-provenance-target.md +++ b/docs/item-provenance-target.md @@ -95,6 +95,20 @@ segmentation appropriate to the production quality achievable at that station." - CultCache Studio's grouping of `GearData` by manufacturer (`CultLib\docs\studio-grouping-cut.md`, Cut 4) is no longer the target. +## Design text and product text (operator, 2026-09-17) + +- A design has no manufacturer field. Operator: "a design shouldn't have a manufacturer + field at all, and a product should show its manufacturer flavor text in addition to the + Design, which would be a dry description of functionality". +- The item panel shows both: the design's description (what the item does) and, when the + item's provenance resolves a product, that product's flavour text. `PropertiesPanel` + already has this shape. +- The catalog content does not. Products currently repeat their design's name and + description (seen on Arctica, 2026-09-17), and design descriptions are written as + flavour. Fixing it is a content pass: dry functional text on designs, manufacturer + voice on products, agent-drafted and operator-reviewed, written through the catalog's + own types. + ## Not in scope - A Njordr daemon, CultMesh, or any service integration. Aetheria stays