A prompt pack is a campaign: kept as received, indexed as a kind, and cited by the records it drove

majordomus://adr/adr-0180proposed context-knowledgechatgpt-project

it references

put_in_force campaigns/README.md (file)
put_in_force adr-0033
put_in_force adr-0124
put_in_force a-brief-is-reconciled-into-the-plan (intent)
put_in_force campaigns-are-provenance-the-plan-reads (intent)
put_in_force I3167
put_in_force I3168
put_in_force I3169
put_in_force I3170
put_in_force I3272
put_in_force a-prompt-pack-in-the-owners-word (knowledge)
put_in_force campaigns-are-read-as-provenance
put_in_force project.a-brief-is-kept-as-received@1
put_in_force project.no-new-nouns@1

referenced by

put_in_force adr-0194
put_in_force adr-0217

180. A prompt pack is a campaign: kept as received, indexed as a kind, and cited by the records it drove

Context

ADR 0124 (proposed) split an uploaded pack's revision from its execution runs, reused the intent/milestone/issue graph and reserved 'pack' for the text-shard tool, but required a follow-up ADR to choose the ingestion noun (candidates 'artifact' or 'intake'). 'artifact' already names the generated artifacts (majordomus artifacts). The repository already has the noun: campaigns/ keeps 52 operator prompt packs (707a04c) verbatim under rule project.a-brief-is-kept-as-received.

Decision

The ingestion noun is 'campaign'. A pack is a campaign kept verbatim under campaigns/ with its manifest digest as its revision; campaign becomes a kind of the index; intents, milestones and issues may cite campaigns and the reverse relation is derived; one command adds a pack after archive-safety checks; an execution started from a campaign pins its digest. An outgoing prompt for a worker is a projection of the plan (devtask), never a campaign.

Alternatives rejected

'artifact' (collides with generated artifacts)
'intake' (a new noun for an existing thing, rule project.no-new-nouns)
Prompt packs as hand-maintained Markdown collections outside the index
A pack's own milestone model

Consequences

ADR 0124's point 3 is resolved; campaigns/README.md's 'nothing here is loaded by the tool' becomes 'loaded read-only, never as instructions'. A dangling campaign citation is a plan validation error.

Sources

Promoted on 2026-10-18 from the owner's ChatGPT project (workspace chatgpt-majordomus, issue I3100). The owner has not accepted it; it is proposed for the owner's decision.

chatgpt-majordomus:c245#11
chatgpt-majordomus:c247#2
chatgpt-majordomus:c297#9
chatgpt-majordomus:c210#2

Where this comes from

canonical file: .ai/repo/adrs/0180-a-prompt-pack-is-a-campaign-kept-as-received-indexed-as-a-kind-a.md
identity: adr-0180
also served as: MCP resource majordomus://adr/adr-0180 · majordomus entity show adr/adr-0180 · GET /api/v1/entity?uri=majordomus://adr/adr-0180
in the Cockpit: /cockpit/objects/adr/adr-0180

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