The README had grown to 413 lines and explained as much as it instructed:
someone trying to get calcalist running read past the architecture, the
scheduling-inertness rule and the reasoning behind retarget before reaching
anything they needed to type.
Most of the excess was duplication of SPECS.md, which is now retired along with
TODO.md since the roadmap is finished. That inverted the usual answer — the
rationale could not simply move to the design document, because there would not
be one. Checking what would actually be orphaned: the architecture rationale is
already in the module doc comments, beside the code it governs and where it
cannot drift; the M0-M2 record is history and git keeps it. Two things had no
home: the working agreement that has shaped every commit, and two decisions
that cost real design work to decline and would otherwise be re-proposed from
first principles. Both are now in CLAUDE.md, which is read at the start of every
session rather than filed and forgotten.
What the README keeps is the whole setup path, because none of it exists
anywhere else now: every configuration field, the Google OAuth walkthrough in
full, routing, and the systemd units. What it gains is a short section on what
the tool does to your calendars — deletion propagating to the source is not
something to discover by accident. What it loses is the design commentary.
Also moves `discover` out of the command list and into the CalDAV endpoint
section, since getting the url field right is its entire purpose.
Verified rather than eyeballed: the worked example was extracted and run through
doctor and status, the command table diffed against --help, and every internal
anchor resolved.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
