📖 [Docs]: Central defaults and repository guidance are clearly separated

[Marius Storhaug (MariusStorhaug)]

Community policies now have a clear organization-level default, while every repository keeps the local context and configuration needed to work safely.

Changed: Repository governance guidance

Each initiative uses a public .github repository for GitHub-inherited community defaults. Code of conduct, security, support, and pull request templates are required centrally; contribution guidance and issue templates remain optional defaults.

The design now separates three surfaces that coexist in the special repository: inherited community files, optional organization-profile content, and the repository's own local context. Repository ownership, dependency updates, release configuration, license terms, and client routes remain repository-specific.

Organization-wide Copilot instructions are configured through organization settings. The .github/copilot-instructions.md file in the defaults repository routes Copilot for that repository only.

The agentic-development model and bootstrap use organization documentation only; memory-repository guidance, templates, synchronization, and tests have been removed.

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Technical details

• Reviewed MSXOrg/.github at fc077b8c2f86a94be7dd00b009993b65e664aa8a and PSModule/.github at ee9fda9bace05d4a4ba8b3574782c1cc7da4ce5a as the structural references.
• Added the shared defaults-repository structure and distribution behavior to the Repository Governance design.
• Kept .github/CONTRIBUTING.md, .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/, profile/README.md, and media/ optional.
• Defined the purpose-specific local baseline for the special .github repository: README.md, AGENTS.md, client routes, .gitattributes, and .gitignore.
• Corrected the distinction between repository-level Copilot route files and organization-level Copilot settings.
• Updated the Organization and Repository standards to use the same ownership boundaries.
• Updated agentic-development design, specification, conformance, workflow maintenance guidance, and bootstrap documentation to remove the memory-repository model.
• Removed the memory repository template and memory-boundary decision record, plus the repository Memory type and navigation entries.
• Updated bootstrap implementation and tests for documentation-only context synchronization.
• Standards and framework alignment: documentation structure, Markdown, agentic-development, repository, organization, and repository-governance standards checked; aligned.
• Issue convergence sweep: no additional open issues were identified as fully satisfied by this change.

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