Requests for comment

A design that has not been built yet, written down before it is built.

An ADR records a decision that has been taken. An RFC records a design that is proposed, together with the reasoning that would make it acceptable — and in this repository that means, above all, how the thing would be verified. Charter rule 1 says CI exists before the feature; an RFC is that rule applied one step earlier, to the capability's verification strategy rather than to its build job.

Everything in an RFC is a plan. The README's Status table is the authority on what exists.