# nfrs.sgit.ai — the non-functional requirements, from the inside > **NFRs** — non-functional requirements — is this project's own operative term for > *"the whole version control, reliability, resilience, security, backups, consistency, > explainability, and documentation."* That sentence was written a month before this site > was conceived, and it is the site's table of contents. *Source: · site v0.1.2 · markdown twin of the front page.* --- Other sites in this network sell the argument that [somebody has to be the villagers](https://open-source.sgit.ai). This one is the same sentence from the inside: how the NFRs actually get done here, including where they do not. ## This is a hub, and it behaves like one | The rule | What it means here | |---|---| | **Link the measurement, never restate it** | When a sibling site has measured something, this site links that page. It does not re-measure and does not paraphrase the number. | | **Generate or date every number** | Every figure carries an as-of date or is generated at build time. The pre-release gate rejects a page that carries figures without one. | | **Every discipline page ends with its counter-evidence** | A page teaching a practice closes with the measured places that practice failed here. | The stakes are raised by [the memory thesis](memory/index.html): if these sites are memory an agent reads, a stale page is not an inconvenience, it is a false memory. ## What this site owns | Page | The position, in a line | |---|---| | [The topic map](map/index.html) | Every NFR topic: what it means here, where the canonical material lives, which site owns it. **Read first.** | | [Testing](testing/index.html) | No mocks, no patches — and the testing philosophy and the type system are one decision, not two. | | [CI pipelines](ci/index.html) | Build once, verify before naming. Nothing gets a name until it has passed as an anonymous digest. | | [Documentation](documentation/index.html) | *If the reality document doesn't list it, it does not exist. Briefs are aspirations, not facts.* | | [IFD](ifd/index.html) | The named methodology, published outside the estate for the first time. It protects attention, and derives its rules from that. | | [Resilience](resilience/index.html) | Design for the failure you had. Every mechanism here traces to a named incident. | | [Budgets](budgets/index.html) | Profitability-first, pre-approve the ladder, budget-on-the-step — with none of this estate's own figures, anywhere. | | [Project management](pm/index.html) | The project manager is where the register becomes work — plus how a brief becomes work here. | ## The estate, measured against its own eight-item list *As of 24 August 2026. The full table, with each cell linked to the sibling pack that measured it, is on [the scorecard](scorecard/index.html).* | NFR | The estate, measured | |---|---| | Version control | ✅ auto-increment tags, the `version` file convention | | Reliability / resilience | ✅ watchdog, poller, bake-and-verify — **and** a dead workflow nobody noticed | | Security | ✅ key discipline, allowlists — **and** one disclosed key-in-history incident | | Backups | ⚠️ **[no doctrine at all](backups/index.html)** | | Consistency | 🟡 total compliance where a script checks, partial where it does not | | Explainability | ✅ reality docs, provenance — **and** no evals anywhere | | Documentation | ✅ a governing rule and a very large corpus — **and** a README describing a repository that does not exist | Reading down the failure column produces one sentence: **what a machine enforces, holds; what attention enforces, drifts.** That is the transferable finding of the whole site. ## Why a website, and not a memory feature > *"The idea of these sites is to provide good briefs for agents to learn about how we work > and think — **these sites are a more evolved and focused version of what is usually > called LLM memory**."* Conventional memory is accumulated transcripts, retrieved by similarity, private to one vendor, unversioned and invisible to the person it describes. This is the same function built as publishing: **memory you can read, cite, version, license and hand to any agent, because it is a website.** [The thesis, its evidence, and its honest limits](memory/index.html). ## Honest about itself - [What this site ships](shipped/index.html) — asserted, demonstrated, or proposed-and-not-built, as a table. - [Backups](backups/index.html) — the one item on the list with nothing behind it, published as an absence. - [Admin & engineering](admin/index.html) — how the site is built, and the two rules it enforces on itself in CI. ## For agents - [/llms.txt](llms.txt) — the annotated map, each entry carrying its page's most important fact. - [/llms-full.txt](llms-full.txt) — the whole document set in one fetch. - Source documents at constructed URLs: `/briefs/v0.33.62__nfrs-brief-pack__.md`. --- All content CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Dinis Cruz, with AI co-authorship. Repository: