ADR-008: Domain-general framing: 'things that depend on other things'

Field	Value
Status	accepted
Date	2026-02-18

Context

Public surfaces framed quicue.ca as 'infrastructure as typed dependency graphs.' This undersells the framework.

Decision

Frame as 'CUE framework for modeling any domain where things depend on other things.' The entry point is two fields: @type and depends_on.

Rationale

The core requirement is: typed nodes with directed dependency edges. That's domain-independent.

Consequences

• GitHub profile, repo descriptions, and docs all use domain-general language
• Downstream table replaces domain-specific prose as the credibility signal
• 'Infrastructure' appears only when describing the IT domain specifically