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# /archcore:document Record the present state: a technical decision, existing code, or a supplied research material. The first word of the arguments selects the mode; a gate inside the mode's track selects the document type. Write affinity: knowledge types; a filed `research` and the decision cascade's `plan` belong to vision. The standard cascade can add a `cpat` (experience). Command tense: `/archcore:plan` declares a future canon delta, `/archcore:document` records the present state — including work that shipped without a plan — and `/archcore:review` reconciles a past declared delta. Δ vocabulary: `skills/_shared/delta-routing.md`. Load `skills/_shared/gate-contract.md` and `skills/_shared/elicitation-contract.md` before executing any gate. ## Modes | Mode | Track and entry | Types the entry gate selects | |---|---|---| | `decision` | `skills/_shared/tracks/decision.md`, `decision.classify` | `adr`, `rfc`; `rule` through the standard cascade; an existing `rfc` draft on the topic → `decision.resolve`, which records an `adr` on an accepted verdict | | `code` | `skills/_shared/tracks/describe.md`, `describe.read` | `spec`, `doc`, `guide`, `scenario` | | `research` | `skills/_shared/tracks/research.md`, `research.frame` | `research`, `rnd` by the closing test; one external material → `evidence` | A document type name is not a mode. When the subject text names a type (`skills/_shared/gate-contract.md`, Entry terms) that the mode's track produces, the selecting gate treat...