> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://honest-scholar.science/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# ADR-0001: Package the workflow as a standalone plugin, not in-mononet

> The research-workflow skills were being designed inside mononet, but the workflow is domain-neutral and the author wants to share the same methodology across…

* Status: accepted · Date: 2026-07-17 · Deciders: Davor Runje

## Context

The research-workflow skills were being designed inside `mononet`, but the
workflow is domain-neutral and the author wants to share the *same* methodology
across their own repos, company colleagues, and PhD peers — reducing shared
cognitive load, not just tidying one repo.

## Decision drivers

* Reuse across repos and people; a single, uniform way of working.
* Decoupling from mononet internals (already begun via the backend contract).
* Peers must be able to install it against their own repos.

## Considered options

1. **Standalone Claude Code plugin repo** (`honest-scholar`), mononet as one consumer.
2. Keep the skills in-repo (mononet) only.
3. A shared internal snippet library copied per repo.

## Decision

Option 1. `honest-scholar` is a standalone, domain-neutral plugin; `mononet` becomes the
first *consumer*.

## Consequences

* Forces a clean plugin↔consumer boundary and contract-based decoupling (good).
* Requires migrating PR #128's in-repo specs to the plugin repo (ADR references
  meta-spec §9).
* Adds a repo to maintain; naming/visibility deferred (meta-spec §10).

## Rejected alternatives

* **In-repo only** — cannot be shared with peers/colleagues or reused; defeats the
  primary goal.
* **Copy-paste snippet library** — no versioning, drifts per repo, no uniformity.

## Links

meta-spec §1, §7, §9.