Doc Lint baseline debt: repository-wide markdownlint failures

[ndrorchestration]

Current status — repository-wide documentation debt; historical baseline

This issue tracks broad repository-wide markdownlint debt separately from DGAF/PDMAL experimental validity.

Historical baseline

• The previously cited Doc Lint run #390 on PR P0: Add epistemic alignment and Evidence Card architecture #65 is historical and must not be treated as the current main lint state.
• Earlier failures covered headings, fenced-code languages, list spacing, reference links, table shape, trailing spaces, and related markdownlint rules.

Current acceptance path

1. Run/retain a fresh repository-wide Doc Lint result against the current main tree.
2. Classify failures as baseline vs newly introduced.
3. Remediate or intentionally scope rules through a dedicated documentation change.
4. Restore a green Doc Lint check without coupling unrelated cleanup to experimental/runtime freeze work.

Evidence boundary

A documentation-lint failure is a quality issue, not experimental falsification. Conversely, a green Doc Lint result does not establish PDMAL efficacy, freeze readiness, authorization, or empirical validity.

Current experimental state: PRE-FREEZE / FAIL-CLOSED / NOT AUTHORIZED / N=0

[ndrorchestration]

Triage note — Doc Lint baseline debt

This issue tracks repository-wide markdownlint baseline debt — pre-existing failures across unrelated docs, not PR #65-introduced defects.

It is tracked separately from the PR #65 reconciliation path. The Doc Lint architecture reconciliation (#400) is the pre-freeze gate; this issue is the backlog documentation for the baseline debt that reconciliation does not erase.

Disposition: doc-backlog, independent, kept open.

[ndrorchestration]

2026-08-28 control reconciliation: repository-wide markdownlint debt remains separate from epistemic alignment and experimental authorization. Continue baseline-vs-PR classification and scoped remediation; do not couple unrelated cleanup to freeze work.

[ndrorchestration]

2026-08-28 parallel continuation audit: retain OPEN as repository-wide documentation hygiene debt. Establish/retain an explicit main baseline, distinguish baseline failures from PR-introduced failures, and remediate in scoped changes. Do not couple broad markdown cleanup to PDMAL freeze/runtime authorization.