The tier axis goes quiet — one version, everything free, Pro deferred to the sync era

User-ruled 2026-08-08, after the git excision: the base/Pro split is mooted for now. The charter's anchors collapse to a single version (monetization workstream parked, the generosity tension resolved by construction), 12-editions.md carries the pivot note naming what the companion excision removes (Kanban/Tier/, TierTests, Configuration.storekit and its wiring; the network-client entitlement stays for the future sync service), and the README's tiers bullet becomes the one-version statement. Pro returns with the iPhone + ops-based sync capability as a fresh design pass — a reintroduction, not a resurrection. The code excision itself is handed off.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy

DESIGN/12-editions.md

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 **PIVOT 2026-08-07 — git leaves the paywall.** Git integration — detection, adoption, auto-commit, git-backed undo/history, branches (06-history-undo.md), and remotes/auth when they ship (07-sync-collab.md) — is **tier-independent**: every tier composes the git stack on git-mode boards exactly as Pro did. The base/Pro feature split is being re-decided, and git isn't going to be it. Until the new split is ruled: the subscription **machinery stays built and tested but dormant** — the entitlement's mechanics (local read, composition-time, offline grace, the recorded session tier) are unchanged and correct for whatever the next split gates, but the Settings Pro section is not rendered and no surface names or sells Pro. The free-only git postures are **retired**: the inert-`.git` stance and the popover's Pro pointer describe a gate that no longer exists — a `.git` at a board root is live in every tier, detection runs at every board open, and every board carries the popover's Git tab (the mode-driven postures: no-repository door, repo-nested, unverifiable, branch). What the pivot does **not** change: git stays **opt-in per board** (06 — creating a local repository is the user's deliberate choice, never auto-initialized), and a board without app-managed git binds conventional native undo/redo (13) exactly as before — the provider still follows the board. The sections below describing the git gate (the tier matrix's git rows, the inert posture, no-grandfathering) stand as record of the pre-pivot design and are not restated; read them through this note.
 
-**PIVOT 2026-08-08 — git excised entirely** (strategy/01-git-excision.md, the second step past the note above): the git stack the first pivot made tier-independent is now removed from the app — engine, UI surfaces, seam bindings, SwiftGitX/libgit2 — with the message engine harvested to `Kanban/Changes/` as the future activity-feed narrator and the pre-excision state tagged `pre-git-excision`. The format's git-friendliness (per-card files, stable UUIDs, byte-fidelity, the seeded `.gitignore`) is the surviving promise, free forever; boards inside user repositories stay first-class and untouched. The tier machinery stays dormant exactly as the first pivot left it; the next split is expected to be "your board beyond your Mac" — the iPhone companion plus the ops-based sync service (the strategy workstream's charter) — and is not ruled by this note. 06 and 14 are retired, 07 is retired as written (06's Undo routing migrated to 13, now the sole substrate's doc); read this doc's git rows, modes, and matrix as record.
+**PIVOT 2026-08-08 (second, same day) — the tier axis is mooted; one version.** User-ruled after the excision below: the base/Pro split leaves the product for now — Lanework ships as a single version, everything free, and the subscription machinery this doc engineered goes from dormant to **excised** (`Kanban/Tier/` — Tier, ProEntitlement, ProProducts, ProStorefront, the unrendered ProSettingsSection — with TierTests, `Configuration.storekit`, and its project.yml/scheme wiring; the network-client entitlement stays, the future sync service needs it regardless). Pro returns later, alongside the iPhone companion and the ops-based sync capability, as a **fresh design pass with its own doc** — a reintroduction, not a resurrection of this doc's matrix; the entitlement mechanics recorded below (local read, composition-time, offline grace) remain the reference for that pass. The provider-seam rationale survives independently (13-native-undo.md carries it now). Everything below stands as record.
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+**PIVOT 2026-08-08 — git excised entirely** (strategy/01-git-excision.md, the second step past the 2026-08-07 pivot): the git stack the first pivot made tier-independent is now removed from the app — engine, UI surfaces, seam bindings, SwiftGitX/libgit2 — with the message engine harvested to `Kanban/Changes/` as the future activity-feed narrator and the pre-excision state tagged `pre-git-excision`. The format's git-friendliness (per-card files, stable UUIDs, byte-fidelity, the seeded `.gitignore`) is the surviving promise, free forever; boards inside user repositories stay first-class and untouched. The tier machinery stays dormant exactly as the first pivot left it; the next split is expected to be "your board beyond your Mac" — the iPhone companion plus the ops-based sync service (the strategy workstream's charter) — and is not ruled by this note. 06 and 14 are retired, 07 is retired as written (06's Undo routing migrated to 13, now the sole substrate's doc); read this doc's git rows, modes, and matrix as record.
 
 **Re-ruled 2026-07-30 — the one-app collapse.** This supersedes the 2026-07-27 two-app split (separate base and Pro targets) and the 2026-07-29 App Group ruling that served it. The split's compile-time purity (base never links libgit2, no network entitlement) dragged permanent coexistence machinery behind it: a shared App Group, per-edition grant slots (security-scoped bookmarks never cross sandboxes), registry freshness stamping between two live processes, UTI-ownership twins, a both-apps-installed rulebook — a tax on every layer that generated a steady stream of design findings, all serving a state (two sandboxed apps sharing app-side state) that existed only because the packaging created it. One app makes that state unrepresentable. Costs accepted with eyes open: libgit2 rides dormant in the free download, and the one app declares the network-client entitlement (exercised only under Pro) — the "free app provably has no network access" story is traded for "no network use until you subscribe," which is honest but weaker.