Establish a safe foundation before implementing the geology RAG system

The project begins with architecture, data governance, reproducible evaluation, deployment boundaries, and secret-handling contracts so later code has measurable acceptance criteria.

Constraint: Real provider credentials, workspace identities, and restricted geological data must never enter Git

Rejected: Add placeholder runnable services in the design commit | would imply unverified implementation readiness

Confidence: high

Scope-risk: narrow

Reversibility: clean

Directive: Run make verify before every commit and update ADRs when architecture boundaries change

Tested: Secret scan, Markdown links, YAML parse, shell syntax, and staged diff validation

Not-tested: Application runtime is intentionally deferred to the implementation stage

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