---
name: Meta
desc: A category for entries that define the project's principles, vocabulary, and documentation
  method.
category:
  - category
  - meta
  - concept
belongs:
  - category
prerequisite:
  - category
---

`meta` classifies *entries* that define the project's principles, vocabulary,
and Sirno-facing documentation method.

`meta` no longer decides what may be used as a category.
That property is carried by `category`.
An *entry* is `meta` because it documents how this project should be understood and developed,
not because other *entries* are classified by it.

The *entries* categorized by `meta` are ordinary *entries*;
notably, they are not privileged built-ins.
They give the *lake* a documented place for guiding principles,
project vocabulary, term styling, prose-splitting rules,
narrative habits, review expectations, and agent-facing guidance.

The `meta` category is useful because a project's principles and method are themselves project knowledge.
Instead of leaving them implicit in scattered conventions,
the project writes them as *entries* that can be read, queried, reviewed, and revised.

The central question for `meta` is:
how should this project's documentation develop?
The answer should be written as *entries*.
A project can define how it names concepts,
when it splits prose,
how it writes narratives,
which terms carry local meaning,
and how agents should update the *lake*.

This is the bootstrap claim:

> Sirno does not just provide documentation for the project;
> it lets the project document its own documentation method.
> Sirno does not just describe what a project is;
> it gives the project a place to describe how understanding should grow.

A `meta` *entry* uses the same metadata shape as every other *entry*.
It is not a privileged region of the *lake*;
it is ordinary prose that happens to describe the project's principles and method.

That uniformity keeps the *lake* easy to reason about.
The same query, check, footer, and metadata rules apply to *entries* about principles and method
and to *entries* about implementation commitments.

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- belongs (to):
  - [category](category.md)
- belongs (from): (none)

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