# Agent Working File This file is a **living document** and a **full history tree** for this project — not a snapshot. Any agent or person working here (Claude in chat, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, or a human) maintains it by the rules below. Everything else in this file varies by project; these rules do not. ## How to maintain this file 1. **Document everything.** On every change, record what was discussed, decided, changed, or planned — decisions and plans included, not just executed work. 2. **Never overwrite or delete history.** When something changes, update the relevant Current Truth section in place **and** append a dated Change Log entry capturing old → new and why. 3. **Two parts, kept separate:** *Current Truth* is updated in place and always reflects the present state; the *Change Log* is append-only, newest entry first, and is never edited retroactively. 4. **Stamp facts** as `[verified YYYY-MM-DD]` or `[assumed]`. When you re-check a fact, re-stamp it with today's date; a stale date means it needs re-verifying. 5. **Never prune the Change Log.** If the file gets unwieldy, ask before archiving old entries to `AGENTS-history.md`. History is not destroyed. --- # Current Truth ## 1. What this project is A ground-up rebuild of **adr.smlcompany.ca**, the personal-brand website of the alternative dispute resolution practice of **Pouya Lajevardi**. `[verified 2026-08-25]` The brand's centre of gravity is the **practitioner**, not the firm and not SML Company Ltd. Legal background, firm affiliation, and the operating company are credibility signals referenced in support; they are not the subject. `[verified 2026-08-25 — source: PL_ADR_Personal_Branding_Strategy_Brief.docx]` **Positioning in one sentence:** a credentialed neutral who is also close to live litigation and a practising machine-learning / infrastructure engineer — a combination that is close to absent from Canadian ADR rosters, and which is the practice's economic moat. `[verified 2026-08-25 — source: strategy brief §I, §V]` *(Wording corrected 2026-08-26: "a working litigator" asserted conduct of litigation, which §4 bars — see entry (q).)* **Time horizon:** the strategy brief plans a 24-month compounding arc. The site is built to be added to continuously, not shipped once. `[verified 2026-08-25]` ## 2. State of the thing being replaced The site live at `adr.smlcompany.ca` as of this entry: `[verified 2026-08-25]` > ⚠️ **Several of these measurements are contested — see Q34 (opened > 2026-08-26).** A re-fetch of the deployed URL that day reproduced some of the > list exactly and could not reproduce others *from the served HTML*, because > the served document turns out to be a bundler harness whose application lives > in nine UUID-named script files that were not fetched. **Do not cite any > figure below as established, and do not put one in public copy, until Q34 > closes.** The items marked ⚠️ are the specific ones in doubt. This caveat sits > here rather than only in §9 because a reader who arrives at a `[verified]` > stamp will otherwise never learn it is under review. - It is a **single 2.2 MB HTML file** containing an entire React application, compiled **in the browser at runtime** by Babel Standalone loaded from unpkg. *Confirmed on re-fetch 2026-08-26: the response is **2,206,032 bytes**, of which **2,210,921** are inline `