# docs/DELETE-CANDIDATES.md

**Listed:** 2026-10-14 (docs triage). **Status:** awaiting Captain Bob's ruling -- nothing here has
been deleted (docs/CLAUDE.md: never delete without confirmation).

Every one is a duplicate: either byte-identical to another file in the same archive, or an older
copy of a document whose maintained copy is named in the reason. Deleting them loses nothing.

(The four candidates listed 2026-06-16 -- an empty break-me report, two GitHub issue templates and
an AI session note -- are no longer in the tree: they were removed at some point since.)

| Path | Why |
|---|---|
| `docs/lithosananke/hal/README.md` | Duplicate of docs/working/archive/dead/hal-target-contract/README.md, without that copy's 2026-10-09 "never adopted" flags. |
| `docs/lithosananke/hal/interfaces.md` | Duplicate (older, unflagged) of docs/working/archive/dead/hal-target-contract/interfaces.md. |
| `docs/lithosananke/hal/lithosananke-integration.md` | The same document as docs/working/archive/dead/hal-target-contract/starkernel-integration.md under the kernel's newer name, without its "obsolete" flag. |
| `docs/lithosananke/hal/migration-plan.md` | Duplicate (older, unflagged) of docs/working/archive/dead/hal-target-contract/migration-plan.md. |
| `docs/lithosananke/hal/overview.md` | Duplicate (older) of docs/working/archive/dead/hal-target-contract/overview.md. |
| `docs/lithosananke/hal/platform-implementations.md` | Duplicate (older, unflagged) of docs/working/archive/dead/hal-target-contract/platform-implementations.md. |
| `docs/working/architecture/03-architecture/word-acl/DESIGN.md` | Older copy (2026-06) of docs/reference/word-acl/DESIGN.md, which is the maintained one (status through Phase 7). |
| `docs/working/archive/legacy/phase-1/Reference/physics_experiment/PEER_REVIEW_SUBMISSION/02_SUPPORTING_DOCS/FORMAL_CLAIMS_FOR_REVIEWERS.txt` | Byte-identical to ../../FORMAL_CLAIMS_FOR_REVIEWERS.txt in the same archive. |
| `docs/working/archive/legacy/phase-1/Reference/physics_experiment/PEER_REVIEW_SUBMISSION/02_SUPPORTING_DOCS/QUICK_REFERENCE.txt` | Byte-identical to ../../QUICK_REFERENCE.txt in the same archive. |
| `docs/working/archive/legacy/phase-1/Reference/physics_experiment/PEER_REVIEW_SUBMISSION/03_EXPERIMENTAL_DATA/full_90_run_comprehensive/experiment_summary.txt` | Byte-identical to ../../../full_90_run_comprehensive/experiment_summary.txt in the same archive. |
| `docs/working/archive/legacy/phase-1/Reference/physics_experiment/PEER_REVIEW_SUBMISSION/03_EXPERIMENTAL_DATA/full_90_run_comprehensive/run_logs/test_matrix.txt` | Byte-identical to the same file in ../../../full_90_run_comprehensive/run_logs/. |
| `docs/working/papers/ONTOLOGY.md` | Older copy (v1.0) of docs/reference/ONTOLOGY.md (v1.1, 2026-08-13). |

To act: "delete the delete candidates", or name the ones to keep.