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# /tend — charter a seed for honest growth Input: a garden seed with `verdict: PLANT` (if unvetted, route to vet first — no charter without a vet). Output: `$GARDEN_DIR/charters/<slug>.md`, and the seed marked `CHARTERED`. Resolve `$ROOT` and `$GARDEN_DIR` as in `skills/seed/SKILL.md`. Read `$ROOT/doctrine/DOCTRINE.md`. Work each section *with* the user — this is a conversation with pickers at the forks, not a generated document dump. ## The charter's six sections ### 1. The First Twelve Twelve real, reachable people/roles this will serve first — names or concrete roles the user can actually contact. Not personas: people. The founding move is serving twelve people so well they carry it. If the user can't reach twelve, the seed isn't ready to leave the garden; say so. ### 2. The Minimal Loving Version The smallest thing that *fully* serves the Twelve — minimal in scope, never in care. A shoddy gift serves no one: cut features, never quality. Define: what it does, what it deliberately doesn't yet, and the quality floor that is non-negotiable. ### 3. The Never-List and the Guard The refusals, written now, while motives are pure and there's nothing worth selling: what this project will never do (ads? tracking? lock-in? data resale? paywalling the core? — draw from the corpus). Then ONE structural guard that makes betrayal hard: license choice, local-first architecture, open format, public domain, nonprofit — pick with an AskUserQuestion picker, trade-offs stated. ### 4. The Carrier Moment Locate the moment where a helped person would naturally tell the next person — the moment the gift lands, not a share button. Design the product to make that moment undeniable and effortless to describe. If no carrier moment exists, growth will require pushing; flag it as the design gap to close before building. ### 5. The Honest Announcement Where the Twelve's people already gather; show the thing there plainly, once. Attraction, not promotion: demonstrate, don't manipulate. No growth hacks, no manufactured urgency, no hidden incentive. List the exact venues and the one paragraph the user would post. ### 6. Stewardship The maintenance promise the Twelve can rely on (cadence, channel for reports, what "maintained" means here), and the patience clause: this curve compounds; it does not spike. State the check-in the user will make with the garden (e.g. quarterly) to verify the seed is still the seed. ## Close Write the charter, update the garden entry (`status: CHARTERED`, charter path). Offer the handoff: build it with the production-grade pipeline, keeping the never-list in the requirements from day one.