diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index cff15bb..fc22897 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -5,17 +5,21 @@ Akroasis is a Rust workspace for multi-domain signal intelligence - radio, mesh,
 ## Push target
 
 ```
-origin = http://kanon.lan/forkwright/akroasis.git   (authoritative)
+origin = <forge>/forkwright/akroasis.git            (authoritative)
 github = git@github.com:forkwright/akroasis.git     (mirror)
 ```
 
+`<forge>` is this box's forge address. It is per-box state, not a property of this repository, so
+it is not written down here — read it from your own `git remote -v`, or from the kanon MCP
+binding that the session-start topology probe reports.
+
 Push to `origin`. The forge post-receive hook runs CI (`.kanon-ci.toml`) and mirrors merge commits to GitHub via the pr-sync worker.
 
 ## Opening a PR
 
 Two paths, same effect:
 
-**Stoa UI.** Open `http://kanon.lan/prs/forkwright/akroasis`, click "New PR", pick base + head refs, review diff, submit.
+**Stoa UI.** Open `<forge>/prs/forkwright/akroasis`, click "New PR", pick base + head refs, review diff, submit.
 
 **CLI.**
 
@@ -50,7 +54,7 @@ The GitHub mirror at `github.com/forkwright/akroasis` works as before. A PR open
 
 ## Fallback
 
-If the forge is unreachable, push to `github` and open a GitHub PR. When the forge is back, its pr-sync worker picks up the PR and continues from there. This is an escape hatch, not a preferred path - use it only when kanon.lan is actually down.
+If the forge is unreachable, push to `github` and open a GitHub PR. When the forge is back, its pr-sync worker picks up the PR and continues from there. This is an escape hatch, not a preferred path - use it only when the forge is actually down.
 
 ## CI configuration
 
diff --git a/docs/MANIFEST.toml b/docs/MANIFEST.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..697feec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/MANIFEST.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+# docs/MANIFEST.toml
+# Documentation inventory for akroasis. See standards/DOC-MANIFEST.md.
+#
+# The archive/ subtree IS listed, and the reasoning that first left it out is worth recording because
+# it was right in principle and wrong here. Git is the archive, so a second index of superseded
+# documents duplicates what history already guarantees. But `STANDARDS/doc-manifest-orphan` asks a
+# narrower question — is every file under docs/ accounted for — and an unlisted file is
+# indistinguishable from one nobody noticed. Listing them as superseded answers that without
+# pretending they are current.
+
+[[doc]]
+path = "docs/ARCHITECTURE.md"
+type = "authored"
+evergreen = true
+description = "Five-layer structure and the shared typed-signal pipeline every domain feeds."
+
+[[doc]]
+path = "docs/PROJECT.md"
+type = "authored"
+evergreen = true
+description = "What akroasis is: the capability domains unified by one shared signal model."
+
+# WHY not evergreen: it names itself a living registry that changes as crates are added or renamed, so
+# its content is a snapshot of the crate set rather than a timeless statement.
+[[doc]]
+path = "docs/lexicon.md"
+type = "authored"
+evergreen = false
+description = "Registry of akroasis crate names and the concept each one owns."
+
+# WHY not evergreen: describes a store owned through a crate that is still planned, so it states an
+# intended arrangement rather than one a reader can currently observe.
+[[doc]]
+path = "docs/reference-store.md"
+type = "authored"
+evergreen = false
+description = "Layout of the long-term offline reference store and its ownership boundary."
+
+[[doc]]
+path = "docs/fjall-column-encryption.md"
+type = "decision-record"
+evergreen = true
+description = "Where the encryption boundary sits for fjall-backed columns, and what is left declarative."
+decided = "2026-08-17"
+
+[[doc]]
+path = "docs/pq-content-key-wrapping.md"
+type = "decision-record"
+evergreen = true
+description = "Post-quantum content-key wrapping for multi-device key distribution."
+decided = "2026-08-17"
+
+# WHY authored and not generated: it is a hand-written example config a reader copies from, not output
+# any command reproduces — a generate_cmd here would be a claim nobody could run.
+[[doc]]
+path = "docs/akroasis-mesh.toml"
+type = "authored"
+evergreen = false
+description = "Example mesh configuration section, with the supported hardware and transports."
+
+# ── superseded ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Listed so the orphan check can account for them, marked non-evergreen because that is what
+# superseded means. Neither is a current statement about this repository.
+
+[[doc]]
+path = "docs/archive/README.md"
+type = "authored"
+evergreen = false
+description = "Index of completed or superseded documentation kept for historical reference."
+
+[[doc]]
+path = "docs/archive/STANDARDS.md"
+type = "authored"
+evergreen = false
+description = "Superseded project standards, retained as the record of what the rules used to be."