TML-3226: close out the attribute-registry project (ADR 249, retro lessons, workspace removal)

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Closes out the attribute-registry project (TML-3226). All four slices merged; this PR records the durable decision as an ADR, lands the retro lessons, and removes the transient project workspace.

Project DoD verification

Condition	Evidence
LSP-side test enumerates a family built-in and a target-contributed attribute	packages/1-framework/3-tooling/language-server/test/attribute-spec-consumability.test.ts and test/integration/test/authoring/attribute-specs.lsp-consumability.test.ts
Interpreters source every spec from a registered namespace (grep gate)	BUILTIN_FIELD_ATTRIBUTE_NAMES and unregistered spec-constant imports return zero hits
Mongo @id/@unique specs registered; Mongo surface enumerable	#30160
Unknown attribute names diagnose in both families at field and model level	PSL_UNSUPPORTED_FIELD_ATTRIBUTE / PSL_UNSUPPORTED_MODEL_ATTRIBUTE in both interpreters
@@type and extension-block @@map declared on descriptors; no blockAttributes.find outside the generic machinery (grep gate)	#30162; grep returns zero hits
ADR 236 amended to the factory descriptor shape	#30154
Registry ADR authored at close-out	ADR 249, this PR
Mandatory final retro (invariant I10)	run 2026-09-09

Slices: registry-core (#30154), sql-attributes-registered (#30159), mongo-attributes-registered (#30160), block-attributes-on-kit (#30162). No slice deferred or cancelled.

Changes

ADR 249 — Central attribute-spec registry. Records the shipped design: registry entries are uniformly spec factories over a framework-owned construction-time context; parse-time contexts are separate types (AttributeCtx / ModelAttributeCtx / FieldAttributeCtx) with no level discriminant; contributions transit core erased with one documented narrow per erased channel; registry keys drive unknown-attribute diagnostics. It carries the rationale for why the factory types erase to AttributeSpec<never> rather than AttributeSpec<unknown> — Out is contravariant through refine, so unknown would reject every spec that declares one. That reasoning survived nowhere else in the repo.

Project workspace deleted. All 18 files under projects/attribute-registry/ classified transient by the default rules — spec, plan, slice specs and plans, dispatch briefs, design-decisions, manual-QA script and report, retro log, trace. No long-lived methodology files were present, so the ADR is the only migration. Reference scan before and after returns empty: nothing outside the directory pointed at it.

Scope

Documentation and project-workspace only. No source file changes, no test changes, no behaviour change.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added an architectural decision record describing the centralized registry for model-level and field-level attributes.
  • Clarified that registry entries use a shared namespace and support consistent attribute validation and diagnostics.
  • Updated the architecture index to specify the registry’s coverage of model-level and field-level attributes.

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The pull request adds ADR 249 for a centralized model- and field-level PSL attribute-spec registry. It also clarifies the ADR index entry and documents registry contexts, assembly, diagnostics, block attributes, consequences, and alternatives.

Changes

Attribute-spec registry architecture

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Registry contracts and contexts docs/architecture docs/adrs/ADR 249 - Central attribute-spec registry.md	Defines registry entries, spec factories, assembly rules, and construction-time and parse-time contexts.
Type boundaries and parsing integration docs/architecture docs/adrs/ADR 249 - Central attribute-spec registry.md	Documents type-erased contribution channels, validation restoration, diagnostics, registry completeness, and block-attribute parsing.
Consequences and related references docs/architecture docs/adrs/ADR 249 - Central attribute-spec registry.md, docs/architecture docs/ADR-INDEX.md	Records consequences, rejected alternatives, related ADRs, and the clarified registry scope in the ADR index.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 244ec

This change documents the attribute registry and clarifies its model- and field-level scope without changing runtime behavior. The documented block-attribute boundary is clear, so no merge-blocking product risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: aqrln

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